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To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time

Harvard Business Review

Most sales models include a conversion funnel in which reps try to convert a marketing-generated lead into a prospect and then a customer through sequential steps. Incremental commitments can also convince prospects to change, which is vital in selling new products or services. Other companies have found similar success.

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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business Review

Content marketing is a start, but articles and posts on social media don’t go deep enough. It’s time to flip the corporate university inside out, blending marketing with learning to create relationships beyond the transaction. P&G Professional serves the “away from home” market for commercial cleaning.

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Africa’s Entrepreneurs Can’t Be Restrained by Fear of Failure

Harvard Business Review

The majority of Africa’s entrepreneurs – old and new – run micro-enterprises which don’t grow beyond the informal sector into productive formal firms. Programs should be launched that enable failed entrepreneurs to get back onto the ladder, by providing access to finance and business support.

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A Novel Idea for Putting Sidelined Cash to Work

Harvard Business Review

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. But history shows that cash cannot sit idle indefinitely.

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A Guide to Winning Support for Your New Idea or Project

Harvard Business Review

“You need to be seen as credible” when you’re talking about the financial implications of your initiative to the finance group, for instance. “You can’t expect to write a white paper and slap it on people’s desks.” “That’s the language of marketing,” says Butman.

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10 Ways to Build your Web Effectiveness :: Women on Business

Women on Business

I recommend you devote the bulk of your marketing budget to developing excellent content and lots of it, with some additional funds set aside for design, production, and maintenance. Keep your pages updated with articles, links, calculators and estimators, white papers, downloads, and genuinely helpful information.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. How many of these practitioners are qualified?

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