N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 26, 2016

Early in my career, when I worked for a couple of big companies in brand management, I joined my colleagues in nodding to the notion of taking a step back. That means nimbleness, laser-like focus, and market specialization. The answer is by out-spending their competitors and/or investing in acquisitions to increase market clout.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 3, 2019

.” He felt customer service was well ingrained throughout his operation. The company featured service in their marketing with convincing and clever branding, they had a customer service department, and they provided extensive service training to frontline staff. Most Brand Management is Misguided and Makes Things Worse.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2020

Every step of starting a business will require you to do thorough research and to help create a top brand. To do that, assessing the market is where you will need to start. First of all, see what brands appear to be most popular with consumers and ask yourself why that is. SEO & Other Digital Marketing. Social Media.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2020

Starting a digital marketing agency is one thing, making it a successful entity is quite another. If you are in Australia then look for the digital marketing Brisbane has to offer. You can introduce yourself and your digital marketing agency with great ease and comfort. Focus on Your Own Branding. The Pricing Factor.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 24, 2011

by John • July 24, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. The original concept, created by Art Director Geoff Hayes in a bathtub, and perpetuated by several creative notables, has managed to stand the cruel test of time and create the 3 rd largest-selling liquor brand on the globe. Not in this case.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. Marketing activities today generate unprecedented amounts of data.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not. Mapping these networks creates visibility and clarity for stakeholders and top management alike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

But don’t assume your impressive résumé will guarantee you an offer, says Berrin Erdogan, a professor of management at Portland State University and the lead author of a recent study on the subject. “Hiring managers are not always eager to bring on someone who is overqualified.”

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How To Long-term Marketing Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. Should management refine and dig deeper into existing 80/20 KPIs? is the challenge top management needs to both ask and rise to.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

firms are powered by "eccentric failed novelists" (presumably from agencies and consulting firms that are gifted at brand positioning and execution) and "visionary founders" (think Steve Jobs) who have created exceptional brands. But Chinese firms to not have to create a branding capability from scratch. He notes that U.S.

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Brand Globalization Brand Management Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The challenge for the Chief Marketing Officer is to create marketing and brand building that is both exceptional and efficient in the face of country, product, and functional silos. Pharmacia had a global team representing regional silos that met to coordinate marketing globally and to coordinate new product planning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

But as more traditional businesses are being run on software and a larger component of a company's customer experience is being delivered online, everyone from marketing to general management needs to take notice. A few years ago, community managers did not exist. Here's a five-step checklist to ensure you stay relevant: 1.

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Among the most impressive lines of questioning are those that address how the organization operates. If you're interviewing at a company known for consumer marketing, for example, don't ask, "Do you do much market research?" If they're known for marketing, you can be sure they do market research. Make your case.

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Learning-by-Doing Marketing Brand Management Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

At a medical device company, a brand manager was examining a chart of daily traffic to his website. For someone responsible for a website’s traffic, the scale and swiftness of the drop should have made him gasp, but the manager nodded knowingly. Their honey pot is the $50-billion-a-year market for digital advertising.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 19, 2011

A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day. by John • June 19, 2011 • Life , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Today, we represent a marvelous marketing opportunity. We operate by the mantra of “use it or you lose it.” Aha,” say the savvy marketers. In the CEO Afterlife. Leadership.

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Advice Marketing Marketing Strategy Brand 147

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

And, in what must be bitter irony for the brand's managers, it just so happens to be the title of the ill-conceived ad itself. So yes, a new normal does demand new standards and advertisers must be deeply aware of the radical era of transparency within which they now operate. It's a solid piece of advice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

More natural, richer forms of communication will demand more of what the smarter brand managers are already doing: letting go. So how should business managers adapt to this new world? A very few can ruin it for the many unless all operate within certain minimum civil bounds. So business is welcoming this, right?

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Brand Video Technology Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” A more current corollary might be, “Brand-building is too important to be left to the brand people.”. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

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Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. It has never before rolled out something at this speed. Welcome to the new world of IT.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Netflix's Reed Hastings snagged the top slot for his ability to successfully manage a winning business while launching and driving its competitor (in his case, Internet-based movie rentals) with equal zeal. What's the market for them?" Tim Breene is the CEO of Accenture Interactive, the company's digital marketing initiative.

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Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

His prize, Victoria’s Secret, will generate $8 billion in revenue this year and operates in a dozen countries. Their stories offer valuable lessons on how to build a startup into an iconic brand. They operated on shoestrings. Today he leads an enterprise that has cumulatively created over 10,000 stores.

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Brand Merchandising Chief Financial Officer Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

A few years ago, Timberlake joined forces with a couple of advertising executives to purchase the site, and he has been an integral part of the company''s transformation into a service that helps artists manage their brands and connect with fans. Advertising Marketing' No longer are either simply promoting an image.

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Creativity Brand Advertising Video 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? The leaders of these companies aren’t ‘managing the store’; they’re building new stores. I’m guessing she does a good job managing a big store but think entrepreneurially? Leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 4, 2012

These leaders earned their branding reputations by establishing themselves as the driving force behind creating, building and guiding the success of their companies and brands. Within their particular markets (and in some cases on a much more pervasive basis), these leaders are the brand. Larry Ellison, Oracle.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market. Today, Nabob faces yet another challenge: finding its place in the quickly dilating coffee industry.

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Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

If you’ve been in a grocery store lately, you probably know the rest — the brand caught on quickly. But for years, as Chobani gobbled up market share, the major food companies stuck to their regular lines of yogurt. He wanted to use it to produce a line of strained, or “Greek,” yogurt called Chobani.

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