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

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

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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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

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

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

To a striking extent, readers (customers, consumers, citizens — i.e., you and I) have taken charge of our interactions with publishers and other vendors in the marketplace, and this trend will only continue — with paradigm-shifting results. The New Tools of Marketing. See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They'll conduct lengthy product evaluations and talk to existing users of the products to ensure they work as advertised. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. They hire consultants to verify that they are making the right decisions.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Ten Stats That Will Change the Way You Look At Video in 2013 (Ad Age). In this handy list, Visible Measures marketing director Matt Fiorentino breaks down what companies need to know about the current online video climate. Some trends? People are actively choosing to watch online video advertising — there were at least 4.6

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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. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend. I am hardly the only one to make that case , but skeptics are still vocal in their disagreement.

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Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They'll conduct lengthy product evaluations and talk to existing users of the products to ensure they work as advertised. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. They hire consultants to verify that they are making the right decisions.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

We're focusing on a dozen different sponsors in detail — covering a range of sponsorship levels and market categories — to understand the impact of their sponsorships on consumer attitudes and behaviour towards their brand: Does the sponsorship actually affect how people feel towards the brand? Initial Findings.

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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. “One Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. Automation will take hold.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Those attributes help us identify a set of likely trends on the horizon. Then, we put each trend through what we call The Five Questions: Where/how are people wasting their time?

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

We see a paradox in two important analytics trends. These increases are expected despite the fact that top marketers report that the effect of analytics on company-wide performance remains modest, with an average performance score of 4.1 Data-Driven Marketing. MirageC/Getty Images. to 17.3%—a whopping 198% increase.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Learning-by-Doing Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information?

Strategy 8

Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

And while most airlines now charge for baggage, in its maverick way Southwest makes the fact that it allows 2 free checked bags per passenger the centerpiece of its advertising campaign. While this is a big change for the airline, more importantly it signals a new pricing strategy trend for the future. Competition Marketing'

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. Sometimes this shift results in the whole-sale replacement of the previous market leader; sometimes it creates a completely parallel market (which typically ends up being larger than the previous market due to the democratizing power of disruption).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . The first trend is the democratization of access to the opportunities in the $130 trillion physical economy , which by the way is six time bigger than the digital economy, according to Oxford Economics.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 .” – John R. Why is this becoming more prevalent? billion and can take more than a decade.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers). Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends. But these trends, and the business responses to them, carry secondary, nonmarket risks — which may turn out to be even greater. They need to be part of the solution.

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