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The Big Picture of Business – Community Relations and Cause Related Marketing Are Business Strategies, Not Sales Promotions: Determining the Right Kind of Tie-In Causes.

Strategy Driven

I recently stopped for lunch at a franchise restaurant. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. I went to their website, where franchise chains allege they want customer comments. The franchise owner later called. We’re a franchise,” he admitted. Nobody was at the register.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. There became too many competitors, too much franchising, too much hype and just as many who exited the industry as quickly as they entered it. by Hank Moore.

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How To Master Marketing When You’re Brand New

Strategy Driven

Because as you’re starting to absorb different ideas and tactics, you can try them all out for yourself. You just need to try out some different ideas, work with different tactics, and get creative too. Be Creative. Try to let yourself be as creative as possible and come up with fun ideas because of it.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Because of her willingness to embrace market risk and take on a role that didn’t yet exist, Feingold spent almost a decade as general counsel at Etsy, at the intersection of her passions — creativity and the law — in a job she handcrafted for herself. Innovate a product or service from within your position.

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How Customers Come to Think of a Product as an Extension of Themselves

Harvard Business Review

But in an increasingly digital world, businesses have to get creative. Both of these tactics should elicit feelings of ownership. Star Wars fans are notorious for their psychological ownership of a film franchise they know intimately. Consumers are more likely to buy something if they handle the product first.