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5 Convincing Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices

Strategy Driven

Modern-age consumers favor businesses that promote social and ethical values and support the marginalized. It instills the consumers with a sense of affiliation or positive associations with the company, boosting the brand image and customer loyalty.

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Why Mission Statements Fail

LDRLB

We know that they have greater profitability, not just because they’re performing better but because customers respond to purpose-driven organizations. We know purpose-driven companies have a lower cost of customer acquisition, longer tenure of customer loyalty, and higher net promoter scores. Is it for the industry?

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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

What is your company most skilled in providing your customers? Is it a niche business catering to a specific industry? Building Customer Loyalty Building customer loyalty by being loyal to them. However, if Buddy didn’t excel at toymaking, then what was his true strength? Does it fill a need?

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Why Mission Statements Fail

LDRLB

We know that they have greater profitability, not just because they’re performing better but because customers respond to purpose-driven organizations. We know purpose-driven companies have a lower cost of customer acquisition, longer tenure of customer loyalty, and higher net promoter scores. Is it for the industry?

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A penny saved is a penny earned. Or is it?

Strategy Driven

I’ll add a few words of definition to each, but more important, think about each of these virtues as it relates to you, your self-disciplines, your actions, and your ethics. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.

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Addiction Marketing

N2Growth Blog

The Beer and Alcohol Industry - You will be hard pressed to find a beer or alcohol company that doesn’t portray consumption of their beverage as the key ingredient to a lifestyle of fast cars, beautiful women, successful careers, etc. Isn’t Starbucks using the same addictive business tactics as those industries listed above?

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth.