Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2014

WHEN it comes to marketing, you have a choice. Buy a million dollar Superbowl ad, or do the hard work of creating remarkable products for the people who care. If you are there for them, they will be there for you. Chase new customers, or care for the ones you already have. Round 1 kicks off on July 12 (you can register here ).

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MishTalk

APRIL 16, 2014

EL Pais reports Spanish Public Debt Threatens to Exceed 100% of GDP in 2014 Via translation General government debt accumulated through February was 987.945 billion euros, an amount that represents 96.5% of gross domestic product (GDP). The 2014 budget is expected to be in the red by 60.7 The debt ended 2013 at 94% of GDP.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

What is more, these market trends have tremendous geopolitical significance, since the price of oil and other hydrocarbon-based products has a big impact on the trade balances of resource-focused economies. Even so, the market could not fulfil global demand. Firstly, there are logistical barriers limiting production.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 24, 2014

The secret to building a strong clients’ attraction on the web is to deliver profound value and engage in as many effective marketing initiatives as you can. For example, if webinars are your passion and expertise, then find the right platform, create the right valuable content, and market to the right audience. © Chad Barr 2014.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

A tour of various supermarkets in the city of Buenos Aires, found escalating inflation is much higher in stock products, perfumery and milk. Retail investors aren’t the only ones suffering from the woes of the emerging markets: Procter & Gamble PG +2.06% is feeling the pain of foreign currencies, too. is now $13.55.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products. How could they not have?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Citing a need for structural reforms, Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, the world''s third largest Fast-Moving-ConsumerGoods (FMCG) company says the emerging market slowdown is here to stay. Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) or Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) are products that are sold quickly and at relatively low cost. PepsiCo, Mondel?z

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! EXPERIENCE.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 11, 2015

Economists expected bounce in productivity, and got one, but it was a bit weaker than than the Bloomberg Consensus Estimate of 1.6%. A bounce back for output gave first-quarter productivity a lift, up a quarter-to-quarter 1.3 Looking at year-on-year rates, growth in productivity is very slight at only plus 0.3 percent vs 2.3

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Outbound Phone Marketing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. product placement market grew by 12.8% in 2014, to over $6 billion, and is set to reach over $11 billion by 2019. Interactive product placement.

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MishTalk

MAY 6, 2015

Today's BLS release on Productivity and Cos ts shows a back-to-back decline in productivity accompanied with rising wages. Productivity is up year-over year, but barely, at 0.6%. Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased at a 1.9 The decline in productivity follows a decline of 2.1 percent and 2.9

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MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2015

You are more productive than ever. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Congratulations. Just don''t expect to be paid more for it. In reality, some machine is doing all that for you. And in all likelihood, China is just getting started.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

That’s when consumers feel so invested in a product that it becomes an extension of themselves. Companies that encourage psychological ownership can entice customers to buy more products, at higher prices, and even to willingly promote those products among their friends. It’s called psychological ownership.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. Like me, you may have first learned about this company from their marketing campaign: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". References. BASF at a glance.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2014

There was a recent incident in Australia where Aldi , a German supermarket, decided to pull a product from its shelves after receiving racism complaints. ” To avoid offending the vocal minority, Aldi removed a product that was never designed for them in the first place. Aldi’s Strategic Blunder. But I digress.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 2, 2015

How often do you hear a car manufacturer (or any other manufacturer) tell people to "not" buy their product because they lose money if you do? Sergio Marchionne had a funny thing to say about the $32,500 battery-powered Fiat 500e that his company markets in California as “eco-chic.” More than any other person, it’s Mary Nichols.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Gulf oil officials on Sunday defended OPEC’s decision last month to keep its production ceiling intact, blaming producers outside of the group for the glut of oil on the market that has depressed prices. oil production has soared as a result of the shale boom, reducing OPEC exports to the U.S. mb/d in 2014 to average 55.95

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2014, Gartner Research, creator of the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, predicted that a “typical family home” could hold up to 500 smart objects by 2022. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. I know because I’ve been there.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. trillion in 2014. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Comparing marketing efficiency with competitors. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2015

Following the rebound in consumer spending (heavily weighted to subprime auto sales), economists expected a rebound in Industrial Production. All the main numbers in today's industrial production report are below low-end forecasts with the headline at minus 0.2 percent which is the lowest rate since January 2014. percent and 0.1

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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Comatch

APRIL 21, 2022

With a freelancing market valued at 355 billion euros, Malt projects to become the undisputed European leader and the preferred partner for companies seeking external resources. Since launching, the consulting marketplace with headquarters in Berlin has grown across nine markets with 130 full-time employees.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 11, 2014

Industrial production declined in the second quarter, foreshadowing very low GDP growth. All major industry sectors experienced a decline in their production. Dembik Christopher, an economist at Saxo Bank, says "Economic stagnation in France is a safe bet for 2014." It''s a moment of truth for the government.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

In today’s increasingly competitive hiring market, organizations need to think differently about how to attract new employees and retain existing ones. Our flex-time program also delivers financial gain for us in the form of increased productivity, regardless of the weather. Laura Schneider for HBR. Monique Valcour.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2014

As of last year, 93% of senior marketing professionals use video for online marketing, sales or communications. Most (84%) used this content on their own website; and more than 60% also using it as a part of their social media and email marketing campaigns. Wednesday, November 12 2014. 11:30a – 3:30p. By: Lisa Strand.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The market. The first area consultants typically analyze in M&A cases is the market. This is extremely important because a big part of the success or failure of the acquisition will depend on broader market dynamics. How big is the market? How profitable is the market? How heavily regulated is the market?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The charts are as of the latest job numbers from Friday, October 3, 2014. The data only goes back to 2007 so let''s also take a look at hours worked by production and monsupervisory employees. I hope to have new graphs later this week or next, for the entire 2007-2014 period. So let''s take a look at both sub-components.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As a result, the cases of online theft, cybercrime, and abusive marketing tactics have risen dramatically. For example, in 2014 Mt Gox, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, was hacked and $460 million worth of bitcoin was stolen. This shows the susceptibility of millions of people to identity theft and other forms of intrusion.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing. Here is a simple process from my book Social Media Strategy, Marketing, and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution.

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MishTalk

MAY 29, 2015

New Orders, Production and Employment Down by More Than 10% For details, let's turn to the Chicago ISM Report that shows Business Barometer Back into Contraction in May. in Q4 2014 and barring a sharp rebound in June points to continued sluggish growth in the second quarter. The Bloomberg Consensus estimate was for a 53.1

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 21, 2013

Seths Blog.Seth Godins riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread. Death and Taxes, 2014. Death and Taxes, 2014. All Marketers Are Liars Blog. All Marketers Tell Stories. All Marketers Tell Stories. Seths most important book about the art of marketing. Permission Marketing.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Domestic demand slowed considerably and fell below 50 for the first time since April 2014. The manufacturing slowdown continues in December and points to a weak ending for 2014. China PMI and Production The question, as always is whether or not this is just more meandering around above and below the expansion-contraction line.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

It says that the free market wage for Wal-Mart employees is $10.00 Simply put, the free market worked, not pressure from protesters, not whining from Obama. Their model is less labor intensive, which is to say, it has higher labor productivity. It''s called the free market. That says nothing about Costco or McDonald''s.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 5, 2014

at 62.8 - Household Survey November 2014 Employment Report Please consider the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) November 2014 Employment Report. Average hourly earnings of production and non-supervisory private workers rose $0.04 Birth Death Model Starting January 2014, I dropped the Birth/Death Model charts from this report.

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