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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

2) Offer your employees a nontraditional career path that is based on their contributions and value-based behaviors, and not on their age or credentials. Not only does this approach ensure that employees give their best to the project, but it also provides opportunities for career growth based on smarts and competence, not on credentials.

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Discover How You Can Benefit from Content Marketing

Women on Business

They reach out and communicate with you via social web conversations, and in time, they become loyal brand advocates who talk about your brand, creating a form of word-of-mouth marketing that business owners could only dream about years ago. Content can help you build your business, your brand, and your career.

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4 Ways to Grow Your Business Organically

Strategy Driven

Does word-of-mouth marketing really work? Many companies go all out to make the overall experience so positive that word-of-mouth happens organically. However, employee development does not only focus on career advancement. Ask Clients to Recommend Your Business to Others. The short answer is yes.

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Successful Company Culture at Work: What It Really Takes

Strategy Driven

While many people think that money will motivate you to work harder, it is not just about cash; it is also about your career, fulfillment, and purpose. Build Motivation. When asking the question ‘What really motivates people?’ you would think that putting money first was the answer given by most people.

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Privacy is a Luxury You Don't Have

Harvard Business Review

And — proving the supremacy of word-of-mouth marketing — while I could resist my lone friend two years before, I couldn't turn down a classroom of 25 pleading college students. Fast forward to the spring of 2006, when I was teaching a course at Emerson College.

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Build your Brand by Building Relationships

Women on Business

And, for those relationships that you already have, you won’t be able to rely on coveted word of mouth marketing (one of the best tools in your toolbox) if you’re not delivering on service or quality. It can take months, even years before you win enough trust for that person or company to spend money with you.

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Learn to Adjust Your Focus

Harvard Business Review

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). When you think about any situation, you can focus your thinking on abstract aspects or specific details.