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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. million RMB (nearly $500,000) in sales of a limited-edition handbag in just six minutes. A New Type of Local Partner.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Sales isn’t what you do. Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. Part of your job will be to manage this uncertainty. You’re not a data scientist.

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When You Agree to a Networking Meeting But Don’t Know What You’re Going to Talk About

Harvard Business

Contact management systems, such as Contactually , can help you stay organized, or you can do it on your own with calendar reminders. The best networking takes a long-term approach ; you can be yourself and get to know others authentically because you’re not fixated on making an immediate “sale.”

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Is Your Marketing in the Right Place but at the Wrong Time? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business

How exactly are they doing that, and thereby realizing further gains in ROI? As a result, the brand substantially increased conversion of searches to sales of its cold medication, building greater brand loyalty at the same time. Read the full report to learn more about how leading marketers manage signals, sequence and speed.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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