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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Big data providers from Nielsen to Gartner to IMS specialize in painting a picture of the market at any moment. Insight Center.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

Oddly enough, Eat24’s biggest break came when they left Google and Facebook as marketing platforms after advertising rates rose. The marketing expense was 90% cheaper than on Google, Facebook, and Twitter – after all, lots of companies don’t want to advertise on porn sites – but the exposure was 200% higher.

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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S.

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Why the Best Salespeople Get So Lucky

Harvard Business Review

My findings are based on a set of studies: exploratory interviews with 19 people, including successful sales professionals and sales students, and research involving 250 university sales students who sold sponsorships and openings for players in a (real) golf tournament and sold job advertising and recruiting booths for a career fair.