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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. Vendors using eBay and Shopify pay listing and sales fees, and consumers pay transaction fees on payment portals like PayPal. There are implications for marketers and advertisers as well. Ending the Google-Facebook Advertising Duopoly.

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6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

Harvard Business

What are job goals and key success metrics? For example, if you’re a brand marketer, you might give yourself an “A” in advertising development, a “B+” in pricing analysis, “C” in trade marketing, etc. Here are six things you can do to take control of your own career. Liane Davey.

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Fix Your Social Media Strategy by Taking It Back to Basics

Harvard Business

Some articles indicate that stories are an effective marketing and advertising tool. If you are driving sales online, measure digital KPIs with click-throughs from social platforms to the purchase. Measuring in-store sales is harder but can be done with offer codes, surveys, or scanner data. But what story will you tell?

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work? I think their recruiters love that because it’s an annuity for them. If you’re a niche firm, you’re not going to pay to advertise. Or “Can you come and speak at my sales meeting?” It’s very aggressive.

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The Best Companies Aren’t Afraid to Replace Their Most Profitable Products

Harvard Business

And while iPod sales were still going through the roof, Jobs launched the iPhone which combined iPod, cell phone, and Internet access into a single device. Three years after the iPhone’s launch, the iPad made its debut despite the risk that it might one day cut into Mac desktop computer sales.

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Subscription Business Models Are Great for Some Businesses and Terrible for Others

Harvard Business

Identify the right metrics. In the transactional economy, the most important measures are new customer acquisition and sales. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. Subscription is a pricing structure. Membership is a mindset.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

.” Explaining the tag line in a company statement, KPMG marketing officer Tim Pearson said, “The emphasis on clarity – not simply knowledge management or insight – in our brand advertising campaign strongly differentiates KPMG in the increasingly crowded business advisory arena and articulates KPMG’s business strategy.”