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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Specifically, both B2C and B2B companies who view branding and advertising as a top two growth strategy are twice as likely to see revenue growth of 5% or more than those that don’t (67% to 33%).

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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Increased Time and Resource Expenditure: The recruitment process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, involving advertising, screening, interviewing, and negotiating offers. Brenda helped to place me in a digital marketing position. This formative experience led to a long career in digital marketing.

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7 Creative Ways to Boost E-commerce Sales

Tom Spencer

Here are 7 e-commerce marketing techniques to boost your online sales. Email is by no means a new marketing technique, but it is often misused or underutilized. Although 82% of B2C and B2B companies use email marketing strategies, only 28% of consumers actually wish to receive promotional emails more often. NickARojas.

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5 Biggest Differences Between B2B and B2C Sales Strategies

Tom Spencer

It also means being able to correctly classify your market. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business

We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. Vail Resorts remade their entire marketing strategy with a program called EpicMix. In many organizations, marketing comes after product development. Tesla vs. BMW.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. In other cases, smart city projects present opportunities to generate advertising revenue and branding. But now the range of possibilities has gotten bigger, and B2C or even B2G2C business models are growing more common.

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book.