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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Cultural variations are important. Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Linda Coussement/eyeem/Getty Images.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

They spend their days developing new content — videos, photos, blog posts, and podcasts — and engaging their followers. The influencer relations program has become a core component of the company’s China market strategy — now the firm’s largest market outside the U.S.

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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. These changes fundamentally require rethinking strategy, organization, investment, and measurement.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business

” For both workers and employers, the boomerang represents “a positive development,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of several best-selling titles, including How Will You Measure Your Life? You might have “realized the culture was wonderful and you miss it.” “Former employees are known quantities.”

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Putting Customers at the Heart of Your Brand to Create Passionate Fans: What Microsoft Learned About Customer Engagement in the Sports Industry - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Microsoft

Harvard Business

Over the course of several months, a digital platform was developed that could capture every fan interaction (whether a mobile check-in at the stadium, a profile update on the website, or a merchandise purchase online), deliver targeted promotional campaigns, and collect club mentions and other data from social media.

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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. Smart marketers will anticipate that strategy by asking one simple question, starting now: how can our marketing effort make the Internet better , instead of worse?