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5 Reasons to Consider Branded Merchandise for Business Promotion

Strategy Driven

Here are five compelling reasons why incorporating branded merch into your marketing mix is a smart move: 1. Cost-Effective Marketing Compared to traditional marketing channels like TV commercials or print ads, branded merchandise offers a cost-effective marketing solution with long-term benefits.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. 12) Consider your supplier as a long term partner. Customers. 1) Create constancy of purpose. 9) Value your customer by taking care of the 5 keys that will make him happy: product, user, due care, customer services and personnel).

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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business Review

Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI). It can be used to assess the return of a specific marketing program, or the firm’s overall marketing mix. And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms.

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Connecting with the 'Overqualified' Job Candidate: Why the Highly.

Strategy Driven

Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! The article points out that ‘overqualified’ candidates tend to show a better work ethic, stay, on average, longer than less qualified candidates, and as long as they are empowered are actually happy workers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harper Lee and Dr. Seuss Won’t Save Publishing

Harvard Business Review

This blast of nostalgia, while great in the short term, illuminates a problematic phenomenon. What they’re often missing these days is a partnership with less prominent authors they cultivate over the long term, enabling them to be far more successful than they could on their own. Become a full partner with authors.

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We Asked, Marketing Execs Answered: If You Could Solve One Challenge in the Advertising Business, What Would It Be?

Harvard Business Review

Read on for their answers: Christa Carone - Chief Marketing Officer, Xerox Corporation. The challenge we're seeing is that "paid" is no longer the hero in the marketing mix. But a valued partnership embraces long-term growth and thinking. Ann Lewnes , Chief Marketing Officer, Adobe. at least it should be.

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How Good Designers Think

Harvard Business Review

Fourthly, good designers look at what might all change in the short, medium and long-term, by engaging with the best trends and forecasting intelligence. They pull together threads from different functions, disciplines, fields, and sectors, and integrate them into a new and (the dreaded word) "holistic" understanding.