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How Low Tech Events Provide High Quality Results

Great Results Team Building

The novelty that technology like phone apps or iPads or GPS receivers may offer is certainly attractive to many event planners, but those bright shiny objects are often yet another example of style over substance. That is part of the reason that many seek out interesting ideas for team bonding.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging).

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Cracking the Mobile Advertising Code

Harvard Business Review

Despite the popularity of apps, however, most mobile ad dollars go to search, which is better at targeting users and tracking ROI. Without any way to credit mobile''s influence on purchases, it''s impossible to determine the ROI on mobile ads. Advertising Technology' Why the discrepancy? Ineffective ad formats.

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Cracking the Mobile Advertising Code

Harvard Business Review

Despite the popularity of apps, however, most mobile ad dollars go to search, which is better at targeting users and tracking ROI. Without any way to credit mobile’s influence on purchases, it’s impossible to determine the ROI on mobile ads. Advertising Technology' Why the discrepancy? Ineffective ad formats.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. CMOs need to show the ROI of every pound spent on marketing and how it delivers against the bottom line.”.

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The Brand Benefits of Places Like the Guinness Storehouse

Harvard Business Review

People crave the kinds of meaningful moments, shared experiences and emotional bonds — or what I call “emotional souvenirs” — that brand homes can provide. How leading companies connect with customers.

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