Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

That phrase is increasingly shaping marketing decisions, and for good reason. Those numbers have mobile advertisers salivating. Despite the popularity of apps, brands spend more than ten times as much on paid search advertising as they spend on ads on apps. What marketers should do. Why the discrepancy?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

.” That phrase is increasingly shaping marketing decisions, and for good reason. Those numbers have mobile advertisers salivating. Despite the popularity of apps, brands spend more than ten times as much on paid search advertising as they spend on ads on apps. What marketers should do. Why the discrepancy?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Now that the Super Bowl is over and we know who won the game, everyone's asking who won the marketing battle that surrounds it. The idea of improvisational marketing is a dangerous one to many of the big brands that advertise around the Super Bowl, for obvious reasons. — Oreo Cookie (@Oreo) February 4, 2013.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Hispanic market will represent $1.5 Business leaders who are contemplating how to reach such an enormous market segment, especially through their digital presence, often ask me the same question: “Do we really need Spanish, or can we get by with just English?”. trillion in purchasing power by 2015 and 30% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing. Here is a simple process from my book Social Media Strategy, Marketing, and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s hard to underestimate the power of an attractive or unattractive market in driving outcomes for companies, including start-ups. As Andy Rachleff, one of the founders of the venture capital firm Benchmark has said “When a great team meets a lousy market, markets win.”. Is the market attractive? Is the founder great?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. In GE’s recent recruitment advertising campaign “What’s the Matter with Owen?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. It makes its revenue and profits not on product sales but on advertising and premium services. But here’s the problem: Alibaba has no margins at all.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And users in China are probably going to spend more money on e-commerce in 2013 than Americans will. For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003. TV advertising is expensive. The Internet often offers a more cost-effective advertising solution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Most of the features will be incorporated into Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web for Office 365, with more partnerships likely to come. Apple’s iPod started as a music-playing device, until it developed the iTunes music store and App Store to connect content providers and app develops to iPod users. Grow mobile.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. ” Of course, this theory predicts that skill requirements should fall when the labor market tightens.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The New Tools of Marketing. Yet ad blockers have been around almost as long as online advertising — certainly as long as we’ve had browser add-ons and extensions. But that’s what you get when you visit most advertising-supported commercial websites, whether you want it or not. Insight Center. As did use.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Along with products, Haight-Ashbury hippies conceived of innovative ideas that transformed product development and advertising. He received his Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. were more profitable in the pre-digital age because of the fragmented broadcasting market, but they do make money today. Aren’t publishers failing?” Aren’t they?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The current social strategy of many Marketing and Ad Agencies goes something like: “It doesn’t matter if the content is good, as long as we get a celebrity to tweet it, the thing will go viral!” Yet any attempt to market to these hyperactive, frenzied, texting balls of estrogen would be rejected and loathed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Upgrade skills.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Overly simplistic notions – “the people who do the advertising”– were based on stereotypes that never accurately reflected the range of responsibilities that many CMOs had. Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

If word-of-mouth is so vital to the success of a business, why are so many dollars spent on marketing and advertising? Spending money on advertising is much easier than doing what it takes to have people spreading the word about how great you are. Tosi on April 1, 2013. This is such a book! A great read! . . . .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. Second, she needed to convince local residents to sign up, usually through tailored advertising campaigns and direct appeals. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Advertising, often a barometer of social norms, used to feature wealthy people relaxing by the pool or on a yacht (e.g., We think that the shift from leisure-as-status to busyness-as-status may be linked to the development of knowledge-intensive economies. Busyness and lack of leisure are also being more celebrated in the media.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

With the coming of the automobile and national radio advertising, James C. As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

. “For the sake of your team, you need to stop,” says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room and managing partner of Paravis Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. The first step is to develop an awareness of why you micromanage. ” Here are some pointers on how to let go.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

In Q2 2013, mobile revenue per 1K listener hours was $34, up 50% from $22 in 2012. Pandora recently capped free listeners at 40 hours per month (since 80% of listener hours are on smartphones) to stem losses until mobile advertising reaches similar margins to desktop. Build the Market for Audio Ads. in the same period.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

A quick scan of recent company financials reveals that 90% of the revenues of the entire enterprise, all of which used to be known as Google, came selling advertising — the core business that Pichai will now run. Second, his philosophy on products includes the principle of serving the ecosystem of users and developers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China.

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