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Addiction Marketing

N2Growth Blog

Brands have always catered to our emotions viewing them as associative triggers – the tactics I’m describing are clearly not new. Isn’t Starbucks using the same addictive business tactics as those industries listed above? Do you feel “Addiction Marketing&# is ethical? What about other fast food outlets?

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Recruiting is Broken, Succession Planning is The Future

Strategy Driven

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. It used to be the only tool a framer had to frame a house with.