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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test. The same idea works for e-marketing. Are they using email blasts, social networking, relationships with key bloggers?

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. I enjoy building and strengthening strategic alliances. It will pay off.

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How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape

Harvard Business Review

Sponsored by DXC Technology. A D2C initiative can involve one platform or many, depending on things like image, objectives, target audience, and what’s feasible in a given market. The cosmetic company responded with a new product, and backed it up with a dedicated consumer marketing plan. Make room for new technologies.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

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Help Your Team Spend Time on the Right Things

Harvard Business Review

They had organized tradeshows, delivered direct marketing, generated leads, and provided useful customer insights – the basics of a successful marketing organization. During this time, however, Cisco’s customers were beginning to purchase and use technology in new ways.

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Make Your Competition Work for You

Harvard Business Review

It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. Upsell related products after the initial sale. Cross endorsement.

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How My Company Hires for Culture First, Skills Second

Harvard Business Review

No technology company hiring manager would ask a programmer applicant to teach the alphabet, but it's the first thing a school administrator might ask of a teacher. No two organizations' hiring processes are alike. Obviously, you need different criteria to assess if people possess the skills needed to succeed in different positions.

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