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How to Effectively Market Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

With so many marketing strategies to choose from, it’s important for businesses to identify the best avenue for their business. From direct marketing to mobile, to social, your marketing platform should reflect your marketing goals as well as your target audiences, personality, budget, location and more.

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5 Ways Building a Mobile App Can Boost Your Business Success

Strategy Driven

Direct marketing channel. You can personalize marketing messages and send customized reminders to customers who haven’t shopped with you or used your service in a while. The options are endless, and you can tailor these messages based on your business goals. Having a mobile app is a fantastic way to generate leads.

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Wiki Brands - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

All companies can do is "help" guide and transparently contribute to help the brand move the right direction. Marketing cannot fix a bad product. Working first on product and service excellence should be the primary goal of any company. Companies do not own their brand, consumers in the internet age do.

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

From the founding and eventual sale of his first company, Yoyodyne , in 1998, to being named Yahoo's VP of direct marketing, to having a blog named "Time's" Top 25 blog in 2009 , Seth Godin has always succeeded at his ventures. When developing your personal brand, never lose sight of who you are and what your ultimate goal is.

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How My Company Hires for Culture First, Skills Second

Harvard Business Review

Employees who do not adhere to a shared corporate culture dilute it, detracting from the essence that gives your company its identity and helps it achieve aggressive goals. In my view, every organization's hiring process — from Microsoft to PS 90 to everything in between — should screen candidates for the best cultural fit.

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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. It achieved its goal of integrating digital behavioral data about customers in one country in order to increase their engagement by 20% in 60 days.

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Make Your Competition Work for You

Harvard Business Review

Your goal is coopetition : to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources — without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival.

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