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Well Connected People Get Results

Coaching Tip

Particularly when it comes to search marketing, as it is necessary to accumulate inbound links from other sites to your blog, website, LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. . How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal. .

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Is there a code to attraction?

Coaching Tip

Before jumping into the content of our communications with those we are communicating with, we can increase the attractiveness of our communications by expressing attractive greetings. After communicating the content of our communications, we can elevate the attractiveness of our communications by expressing attractive goodbyes.

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing — including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications — is dead. Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. Actually, we already know in great detail what the new model of marketing will look like.

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the shift of content to the digital domain has forced organizations to rethink their attitude to value creation, at times backtracking to the very issue of what “value” actually means. This tends to be favored approach of traditional content providers. How can business make money from digital content, then? Reputation.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, job security and social capital (as measured through the support one receives from fellow workers) are also positively correlated with happiness, while jobs that involve risks to health and safety are generally associated with lower levels of wellbeing.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

The digitization of social brings real-world trust and social capital online. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Good for Business, Good for Society.