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Don’t Overlook These Valuable Details Before Launching Your Business

Strategy Driven

If you want to avoid making the same blunder, ensure to pay attention to the following factors before commencing your business: Define your marketing strategy. Marketing is the lifeblood of a business. Talking about the standout features, SEO is budget-friendly and guarantees long-term marketing success.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Strategy.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 3.

Strategy Driven

Community Marketing becomes strategic to a respected organization. Actually, a Community Marketing strategy helps define the business purpose and elevates the concept. Figure 1: The Community Marketing Strategy The relational diagram involves the entire spectrum of people. Relational Leadership is people-centric.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

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. By far the best synthesis and summary of the digital keys to the campaign's success is Engage DC's Inside the Cave. It was that good.

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Developing Future Leaders – It’s Imperative Not to Wait!

Great Leadership By Dan

Continuity of company culture, labor shortages, and an unexpected death of a senior manager are just a few important reasons. In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Challenges for Mid-Market Companies.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. The portfolio tool can be used as a common frame of reference in management discussions about a number of areas.

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Put Your Customers on Stage

Harvard Business Review

Charismatic presenters are nice and crisply articulated messages are wonderful, but one critical success factor stands out above all others: The best customer events put the best customers on stage. Without exception, these companies want to be seen as innovative and customer-centric in equal measure.