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Complimentary Resource – Explode 6 Direct Marketing Myths.

Strategy Driven

This paper focuses on six myths that surround direct marketing best practices and discusses how you can use specific analytical techniques and tools to beat these myths, increase response rates and boost ROI. Click here for more information on Explode 6 Direct Marketing Myths.

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AARP – The Last Membership Card You Will Ever Need!

CO2

I remember when I was at the beginning of my career and calling on AARP as a direct marketer to do their work. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Where has time gone. You know the work of calling on Senior Citizens. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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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. Obviously, you need different criteria to assess if people possess the skills needed to succeed in different positions. But skills don't tell the whole story.

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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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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. All are taught professional skills but must absorb along the way the business talents necessary to run their practices. Authority figures must be effective disciplinarians.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.