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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). B2C & D2C Organizations hire her firm as a talent partner and trusted advisor to introduce them to influential Leaders at the C-Suite, Executive, Director, and Manager levels.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

Influencers are much more than the “Instafamous”: They are diverse individuals with established expertise, expansive platforms, and refined strategies of engaging target audiences and shaping their behavior. million RMB (nearly $500,000) in sales of a limited-edition handbag in just six minutes.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business

Furthermore, they engage customers more as users than as buyers, shifting their investments from pre-purchase promotion and sales to post-purchase renewal and advocacy. We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

PMs must understand customers’ emotions and concerns about their product as much as they understand the concerns of the sales team on how to sell that product, or the support team on how to support it, or the engineering on how to build it. Cons: PMs have less exposure to company strategy and are just one of many voices of the customer.

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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. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?