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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business Review

We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. Vail Resorts remade their entire marketing strategy with a program called EpicMix. In many organizations, marketing comes after product development.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Both candidates are making attempts to lure Hispanic voters, and yet their cumulative total spending on advertising to Hispanics represents only 4.3% — a low number when you consider that 1 out of every 10 eligible voters is Hispanic. Think profit center, not cost center. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

Both candidates are making attempts to lure Hispanic voters, and yet their cumulative total spending on advertising to Hispanics represents only 4.3% — a low number when you consider that 1 out of every 10 eligible voters is Hispanic. Think profit center, not cost center. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.