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What Is Inbound Marketing, and Why Is Everyone Doing It?

Strategy Driven

While many businesses rely on traditional outbound marketing strategies to find new leads, this can be costly and even ineffective. Inbound marketing has emerged as an attractive complement to traditional advertising strategies. What Is Inbound Marketing? Email marketing is important for staying top of mind with your prospects.

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The Silent Killer of New Products: Lazy Pricing

Harvard Business Review

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process.

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For Social Media Buy-in, Lead with the "Why"

Harvard Business Review

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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For Social Media Buy-in, Lead with the "Why"

Harvard Business Review

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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The Internet of “Stuff Your Mom Won’t Do for You Anymore”

Harvard Business Review

Their business model is a beautiful thing: platforms (also known as two- or multi-sided markets) are asset-light and make money by sitting between different parties, controlling the market and taking a piece of every transaction. And why not? Which means that not every industry is susceptible to takeover by platforms. Insight Center.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Large corporations are devoting serious attention to becoming “ambidextrous,” combining robust exploitation capabilities for existing businesses with new exploration-driven business engines inside and outside their organization. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Another user, Simon, has a question and posts it just to see what happens next. What Claudia, Simon, and Miguel have in common is that they probably bought into the forum’s transactional layer. Strava engineered social motivation for athletes. He never finds out, as he forgets to check back. metropolitan areas.

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