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Find the Best Local Markets to Drive Growth

Harvard Business Review

These super geos were local profit pools that were concentrated and big enough to offer big ROI upside for marketing and sales. Sometimes it’s not immediately obvious why some geographic markets are such big consumers of a particular product. Certain local markets have the right ingredients to ripen demand.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business Review

I met the team at Vineyard Vines while doing research about data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted , and was able to learn firsthand about the company’s beginnings, and what has made them so successful today. ” Of course, this type of real-time, one-to-one marketing is easier said than done.

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