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Four Ways to Grow Your Business

Chart Your Course

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. Plus more than half say the bad economy is the main reason for their troubles, followed by changing technologies and an increase in direct competition.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Last month the supermarket giant Tesco announced a partnership with a technology firm Amscreen aimed at improving the targeting of its advertisements. Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around. The reason?

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Cracking the Mobile Advertising Code

Harvard Business Review

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. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. Advertising Technology'

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Cracking the Mobile Advertising Code

Harvard Business Review

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. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. Advertising Technology'

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The Power of Real-Time Advertising

Harvard Business Review

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. Even the slightest misstep or off-color remark can go viral and forever damage a brand within minutes. No problem. twitter.com/Oreo/status/29.

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Marketers, Let Your Egos Go

Harvard Business Review

What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? Great advertising is magic. Traditional advertisers will tell you that not much has changed. It is art for money''s sake. Rinse and repeat.

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The Changing Economics of App Development

Harvard Business Review

A newer generation of app developers – the so-called “middle class” of independent app creators and companies – is finding success by better catering to customers’ demand for choice and variety, even as they bump up against challenges like app discovery and advertising.