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Help Your Team Spend Time on the Right Things

Harvard Business Review

They had organized tradeshows, delivered direct marketing, generated leads, and provided useful customer insights – the basics of a successful marketing organization. In the face of this new reality, the marketing leadership team realized that many of their traditional face-to-face activities were no longer sufficient.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. For instance, you can calculate the value of turning a detractor into a promoter, or use differences in attrition rates to assess the expected lifetime values of different customer groups. One direct marketer learned this the hard way. Organized learning.