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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. The rise of social media has created a new type of local partner: local digital influencers. A New Type of Local Partner.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World weaves together a series of mind-bending vignettes into a compelling vision of how social media could change our lives. Like international travel or meditation, it creates space for us to question our assumptions. Science fiction isn’t useful because it’s predictive.

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7 secrets for presenting to prospects you want to turn into clients

Rod Burkert

Speaking to 1-to-many audiences like these falls between the extremes of 1-to-1 meetings and 1-to-masses social media, except it is both efficient and effective. My story is how I started traveling in the RV. Download your white paper? They want to learn more. So why do you do what you do? What got you started?

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Inside the Minds of Your Prospects: 37 Critical Digital Marketing Statistics for Consultants

Tsavo Neal

They come for the content or the service, like booking air travel. 96% of B2B small business websites don’t offer guides, white papers, or similar reports on their home pages. Tweet this B2B businesses, in particular, should be offering guides, white papers, or reports on their homepages. Source: Media Post.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

Publishing a white paper. Publishing a White Paper. A white paper is a report given on a topic in your industry. White Papers are a great lead magnet because they position you as a trusted advisor to your prospect. Further Reading: 6 keys to writing a white paper that generates leads.

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business

As diverse forces such as social media, climate change, urban migration, and sprawl continue to upend the status quo, employing every tool and service available to help societies respond to disruption is critical. . Urban digital nervous system.

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The Potential for Blockchain to Transform Electronic Health Records

Harvard Business

My colleagues at the MIT Media Lab and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center tested this concept with medications , proving the viability of such an approach. It stores a signature of the record on a blockchain and notifies the patient, who is ultimately in control of where that record can travel.

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