Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Marketing 48

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 48

Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. Every aspect of your project, from project profitability to individual performance metrics is enabled by Microsoft’s Power BI.

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Resources Report ROI Data 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.”

Media 36

Media Metrics eBook Software 36

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

Marketing 38

Marketing Advertising Media Video 38

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. Here are examples of how firms in three industries are simplifying the purchase process, and the specific tactics they are using: An employee wellness benefits provider uses content marketing. Fast forward to today.

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B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 33

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term.

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Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 36

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite.

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Retail Apparel Financial ROI 49

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

While open houses welcome almost everyone as part of their marketing and outreach efforts, campsites carefully vet participants according to expertise, personality, or cultural fit. As one might imagine, demonstrating the ROI of this is difficult — most don’t even try. The latter is crucial.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These may be as simple as “reduce year-over-year health care spending” or as specific as “help employees with chronic disease improve medication adherence” Metrics. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator.

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Metrics ROI Journal Study 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past decade, content marketing has become a widely established practice. Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. HBR Staff/Chris Minerva/Getty Images.

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Marketing Case Study Case Studies Sales 40

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. ” The EVP of marketing was pleased she could now track the assignment of every single lead. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market. Here are five to learn from Ford thus far, about mobility services in particular, and more broadly, about how to deal with the uncertainty of new business models in new markets by testing and learning one’s way forward.

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Transportation ROI Metrics Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Over the years, online community research has matured from novelty to necessity – an essential tool for marketing professionals. According to the Market Research Society (MRS) , spending on online research increased 15 percent from 2008 to 2012. Measure the ROI. The use of communities has grown steadily as a result.

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