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Has Your Company Been Anchored To The Wrong Information?

Lead Change Blog

The advertising and marketing group swiftly overhauled its external and also internal outreach to include fresh info on the business’s COVID-19 efforts. To round out the business’s pivot, the COO and HR VP launched a retention program to head off any additional attrition.

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The Right Way to Cut Costs

HR Digest

Instead of outright layoffs, you may explore alternatives such as attrition or offering voluntary early retirement packages. Marketing Marketing is another area where cost-cutting opportunities can often be found. To optimize your marketing budget, start by analyzing the effectiveness of your current campaigns.

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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business Review

On average, roughly four times as many winners – defined in this case as those companies that grew absolute revenue at a significant rate and gained market share within their industry over the previous two years – as losers have digital tools embedded into their core commercial capabilities. Zero-base sales capacity.

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An Emotional Connection Matters More than Customer Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

Measuring Marketing Insights. Without a clear, measurable, value-creating goal, companies risk expending huge amounts of human and capital resources without delivering any real financial return. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite. Turning data into action.

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Big Data Hype (and Reality)

Harvard Business Review

Customer attrition. If predictive analytics drawing on big data could accurately point to who in particular was about to jump ship, direct marketing dollars could be efficiently deployed to intervene, perhaps by offering those wavering customers new benefits or discounts. Web advertising response. But still, it is 92% wrong.

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To Retain Employees, Focus on Inclusion — Not Just Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Picture, for example, a Muslim who prays in his car because he doesn’t want to advertise his religion, a mother who doesn’t put up pictures of her children so that coworkers won’t question her commitment to the job, or a gay executive who is unsure whether he can bring his partner to company functions.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.