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How to Maximize Your Small Business Success

Strategy Driven

You’ll be able to outsource this if you don’t have the capability to manage this in-house, or otherwise hire a digital-savvy employee to cover your branding, website, social media and marketing initiatives, with measurable data analysis showing you the success of your marketing endeavors.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

With seemingly unbounded opportunity, salespeople work hard to build relationships and create a book of business that drives their future financial success and creates fast market penetration for the company. But the "salesperson owns customer" model is a double edged sword. Three examples show the issues that can arise.

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Which Management Style Will China Adopt?

Harvard Business Review

business community benefits from a long tradition of newcomers taking risks on entirely new product categories and technologies and leapfrogging companies that have lost their competitive edge. German corporations have historically been big innovators in terms of technology and product quality. Germany and the U.S. approach.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

There are time-delayed and time-dependent relationships in which huge effort may yield little in the near-term, or in which high output today may be the result of actions taken a long time ago. Then you enter hypergrowth, which typically happens somewhere between 10-15% of market penetration.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Fraud prevention can keep platform costs down over the long term but puts friction on user transactions, which dissuades value-creating activity. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers.