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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

Coaching Tip

Advertisement. Over the years, I have discovered success is powered by three things: know-how, reputation and a network of contacts. The formula for success = your human capital (what you know and can do) times your social capital (who you know and who knows you) times your reputation (who trusts you).

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Help them build social capital. It also increased the reputation of the mid-level advocates, who were seen as strategic thinkers bringing new ideas to senior management. But they are.

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

Big Data is working hard to get into the minds of customers and uncover accurate information about how the customer really feels, thinks and responds to products, services, advertising and brands. They're helping customers build social capital. Companies are creating much greater satisfaction than "getting a job done."

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Guidelines for Cultivating Customer Altruism

Harvard Business Review

Ariely points out that once you cross the line from social norms into market norms, you''ll find it very difficult to get your customers to return to social norms. Social Rewards Are More Powerful. But to work, these rewards need to focus on helping customers build social capital, not financial capital.