N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. that can cause disruption in the market.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 4, 2021

Here are five things that your business needs to be doing in 2021 to weather the storms to come over the next year and, hopefully, set yourself up in a better position to weather any storms in the medium and long-term future too. A Resilient Marketing Plan. Improve Your Website. A Strong Remote Working Policy.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Bring products to market at the wrong time or introduce an idea without understanding timing and the “garden” can quickly resemble a piece of scorched earth. Leaders face “El Niños”: market downturns, a coup in Africa, airline strikes, terrorist attacks. Grow, grow. Sell, sell. You name it. Plant seeds and give space to the sowers.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

We need planning processes that leverage the best and brightest from within an organization – it produces better results and goes a long way to inform and engage the people that you need to execute on the plan produced. Be sure to make it someone’s job to maintain and administer the plan.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 23, 2023

Whether you’re into fitness, art, fashion, or adult content, knowing your niche helps you tailor your content to your audience’s preferences. Making your subscribers feel valued and appreciated can lead to long-term loyalty. Subscriber Engagement Engage with your subscribers regularly.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

But this is an old-fashioned and ineffective approach. Before going into a meeting, set your minimum acceptable terms for the pitch. Negotiate with the prospect and only ever put the minimum acceptable terms on the table as a last resort. Offer solutions. Ask them for the sale.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2020

Choosing to invest in white label CBD tinctures can then help to provide your target audience with a more natural way to protect their health and treat long-term health conditions, as well as aid their mental health. Sustainable Crafts. Many people are looking for custom items that are created with the environment in mind.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Emily arrives at the Parisian office newly acquired by her American marketing company, to be the liaison between the two offices, and yet, she doesn’t speak the language of the country she’s now working, and doesn’t seem to fancy the idea that she should try. As tourists or even short-term visitors, you can get away with Hellos and Goodbyes.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Many of us have forgotten (if we ever learned) how to make smart decisions for the long run.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2012

No waste of time and money “survey,” no phony empty apology, just a good, old fashioned admission of guilt, and a proactive refund for poor performance. It’s WAY beyond ‘priceless’ – in the long term, it’s worth a fortune. In fact, I doubt this type of outreach is even on a marketing team’s mindset.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 30, 2013

The reality, though, is that these thoughts are only serving to fuel our fears about the current situation, thereby limiting our willingness or capacity to address it in an appropriate fashion.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The conversation around Gen Z in the workplace receives a lot of negative attention whether we’re in discussion about their work fashion or their work ethic. Just as older workers are best placed to teach the younglings about the market, the various job assignments, the ins and outs of working with specific clients, etc.,

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2018

However, without the power of a customer and client base behind you, you’ll agree that things will likely not last very long. If two children are selling equal lemonade on two different stands along the street, it’s likely the one who advertises and presents their product in a superior fashion will gain the most sales.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2017

First and foremost, finding your place in the market will allow you to target your primary audience with far greater effect. Conversely, positive experiences should bring long-term loyalty. As well as maximizing short-term profits, this can also buy more time for the venture. Understand the needs of your customers.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2017

Putting customers through too long a process puts you at real risk of shopping cart abandonment. In fact, if they have different products and different target markets, they should be wildly different. Lifestyle and fashion products, for instance, rely more on greater visual detail. Not just in terms of design but management.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

The following commentary came from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft when he was asked about his philosophy on hiring: “I did all the hiring myself for a long time. Hiring in a team based fashion eliminates many of the typical mistakes that can be made in the hiring process. Hiring is a blend of art and science.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Baby steps work just as well as long as you keep to a reasonable timeframe. Whatever you consider the “monkey on your back,” just know that you’re better off in the long run by letting it go and taking some new risks…and don’t even think about looking back! When asked “how do you market your practice?”

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. That’s why we see so many good ideas either not make it to market or not for long. Most organizations think of innovation in terms of creating value: products, services and experiences.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul. Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. Taking a long view doesn't mean companies should go radio-silent. Acting and communicating in this fashion will also start to attract long-term investors. Countries, too, but that's a topic for another day.)

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. That will kill your company over the long term. You are short-term and reaction-driven : The vision-crushing ritual of quarterly earnings is not the measure of long-term success in any organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As team life spans continue to shrink in response to faster industry/market changes, how can leaders not only ensure team cohesion, but adapt to the changing team and personality dynamics that inevitably occur when old team members leave and new ones join?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? Thanks again for your comment Tom.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

A good present-day example of this type of leadership can be found in Virgin Group Ltd, a very successful corporation renowned for its presence in a wide variety of global markets. He has imbued the entire corporation with a service culture that is reaping record-shattering rewards in terms of corporate success.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law. The brilliant writer, J.D.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. Thinking in terms of “ my way &# is right and therefore “ other ways &# are wrong is the basis for polarizing any relationship, which quickly results in converting discussions into power struggles.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

You will need to take steps to know what is being said about your business in the long-term. This tool allows you to set specific search term alerts that will notify you when anything mentioning these terms comes up in searches. You could consider making use of tools like Google Alert.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. But the middle classes are the key drivers for the future.".

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 12, 2016

[Note: I’m excited to share my second book, The Radical Edge , in serial fashion here on SteveFarber.com! They were not—as we say in business—my “target market”; yet, LEAP has given each of them a good dose of inspiration and a road map to change their lives for the better. As long as we’re asking the deep questions, yeah.”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.

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Rajesh Setty

MAY 19, 2012

It’s about bringing creativity, storytelling and leverage to the marketing side of any business. is the fashion. Long time readers of my blog have seen one or more of these mini sagas as I have been writing them for years. So, my cards for Foresight Plus had to have a mix of all of them. That would make it all worth it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010. billion in less than a year.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2013

It’s for people that have no other way of marketing. When I do, some of my customers make comments about being a city boy, or they say I look like their banker (even though I usually wear dress slacks and a long sleeve shirt with polished shoes). Wear nice, fashionable cowboy clothes. Sherri, Cold calling sucks.

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