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How to grow sales on a downsized marketing budget

Strategy Driven

For example, a luxury car dealership might segment its customers by the attitudes and beliefs that motivate purchases (the need for speed versus family safety), whereas a grocery retailer might segment customers by demographics such as their age, education or profession.

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Public sector sexism and the lost generation

Rapid BI

So why insist on these categories: Retail. So why retail & customer care? But when the “system” expects them to go into college/ education, but then completely ignores their passion and area of expertise, well that is just plain crazy. Customer service. Vet assistant? Animal husbandry. Animal care.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. One can certainly make the case that we are falling into an abyss.

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Public sector sexism and the lost generation

Rapid BI

So why insist on these categories: Retail. So why retail & customer care? But when the “system” expects them to go into college/ education, but then completely ignores their passion and area of expertise, well that is just plain crazy. Customer service. Vet assistant? Animal husbandry Animal care.

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Are You Spending 1,000 Hours Preparing for Your Next Job?

Harvard Business Review

But to be fair, Moore made what was seen as his seemingly wild prediction 47 years ago. Said another way, you would have to recover one-quarter of a college education every five years. (It But this wouldn't be true for an Apple retail store or a computer store or a phone store or. It could be better, it could be worse.

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

This seemingly banal transaction speaks volumes to the power of how established retail has pervaded our everyday experience in the United States. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. Launch day was a wild success.

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

Amazon has disrupted book stores and other retail chains, Zipcar disrupted car rentals, Netflix is disrupting cinemas and cable companies, Airbnb disrupts hotels, and Bitcoin may disrupt the payment industry. I am also certain that measures which serve to dampen entrepreneurial ambition are not helpful.