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The Marketing Strategy: What You REALLY Need To Know

Strategy Driven

Your business thrives on how effective its marketing strategy is. Marketing is a concept that can almost consume a business that hasn’t got its strategy in order. Most businesses place a vast proportion of their budget towards marketing and its various sub-categories. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols.

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The Power of an Enemy

In the CEO Afterlife

Admonished by my mother and father for unsportsmanlike behavior, I eventually matured and forged a stiff upper lip in defeat. For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. Today, RIM struggles to maintain 5% of the market.

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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

Market Analysis and Customers. Marketing Strategy. Sales Strategy. Operational Strategy. As the group matures, we hope to get more Genecians involved from all areas of the organization. Competitive Landscape. The Company. Financial Projections – including cost to develop/build.

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Too Many Marketing Teams Are Stuck in the Past

Harvard Business Review

Many marketing organizations are still operating like it’s the 1990s — or even earlier. Duplicative marketing teams exist within the same company across multiple product lines. Digital marketing teams are centralized yet isolated from the broader organization.

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You Found Your Product-Market Fit. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. But once you achieve initial product-market fit and are down the Sales Learning Curve (PDF), suddenly you are faced with a new challenge: how do I scale up the sales efforts? 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g.,

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With Tweet-to-Buy, American Express Values its Community at $10

Harvard Business Review

This strategy will probably earn back multiples of the $10 investment on high-influence Twitter users, but it will likely be loss-making on low-influence twitter accounts, which are the in the majority. Marketers already use demographic segmentation to create improved marketing strategies based on CLV.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2Ă—2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. Supermarkets are a case in point.