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Despite Dire Predictions, Salespeople Aren’t Going Away

Harvard Business Review

Advertising is producing better results than the old method of personal solicitation,” the article reported. “Things were different once upon a time before the railroads turned farms into cities… The traveling [sales]man is a middleman and the evolution of business is gradually eliminating the middle man.”

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. At MarketShare, we’ve seen these partnerships play out in a change in who’s sitting at the table during discussions with major brands about advanced marketing analytics technology.

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Why Websites Still Can’t Predict Exactly What You Want

Harvard Business Review

Not to feel left out, I contributed my own head scratcher: while playing a Youtube video of classical music, cartoon roaches crawled over the player, advertising extermination services. See, for example, “Data Science and Prediction” by Vasant Dhar, Communications of the ACM , December 2013.). Marketing Retail Technology'

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Ad Blockers and the Next Chapter of the Internet

Harvard Business Review

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. See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). Insight Center.

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How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

Harvard Business Review

Second, she needed to convince local residents to sign up, usually through tailored advertising campaigns and direct appeals. Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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