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How to Effectively Market Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Without the proper marketing, most startups and small businesses will be doomed to fail. However, with such an abundance of marketing techniques available, it is important that small business owners deploy the correct methods in order to maximize their return on investment. Complete Your Market Research. Profile Target Markets.

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How Valuable Are Your Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Even if you don’t have to calculate CLV yourself (there are lots of tools that will do the math for you ), it’s important to understand the concept so you can decide whether to use it when making marketing and sales decisions. Now the question is how much do you spend marketing to your customers and how effective are your efforts?

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Help Your Team Spend Time on the Right Things

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, many managers don’t think about time as a finite resource in the same way that they consider the limitations of headcount and budget. Let’s look at the Americas Field Marketing organization for Cisco Systems, as an example of this three-step process. This allowed them to redeploy time to new initiatives.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. were more profitable in the pre-digital age because of the fragmented broadcasting market, but they do make money today. Aren’t publishers failing?” Aren’t they?

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The Big Picture of Business: Corporate Communications – Correctly Positioning Your Company

Strategy Driven

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Because of economic realities and the increased numbers of firms providing comparable services, the notion of business development is now a necessity, rather than a luxury. Business development. Marketing Program. Direct marketing.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Business development. There is the need to develop better information to help management make better decisions. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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