Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

In 2015, I wrote a blog post on LinkedIn with the witty name: “Let’s Put This Bluntly: Discounts are For Dummies!” Your brand ain’t strong: Price is a signal to the market that you either have your act together and have built a strong brand or if you are discounting that your brand is weak. What does a discount say about you?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

The justification for the status quo is usually that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” While simplistic assumptions do make for easier math, and can help to predict market outcomes in stylised scenarios, the real world is both complex and dynamic. Factors of production. Willingness to pay. Equilibrium.

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 3, 2023

9/15 of my paid products/books/courses are retiring. I’ll be here sharing marketing, growth, and entrepreneurship tips, advice, and stories until they pry my Ono-Sendai keyboard out of my hands. Behind the scenes, I’ve been working on marketing and strategy for kai davis dot com in advance of a Q1/Q2 marketing push.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. How will they perform well enough for us to meet our targets?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.

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Henman Performance Executive

JANUARY 7, 2015

Product tampering. Which operations people, legal minds, marketing professionals, and public relations experts will need to participate? The post No Practice Bleeding in 2015 appeared first on Henman Performance Group. The nature of your business will determine your risks, but some universal perils exist: Natural disasters.

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MishTalk

MAY 6, 2015

Today's BLS release on Productivity and Cos ts shows a back-to-back decline in productivity accompanied with rising wages. Productivity is up year-over year, but barely, at 0.6%. Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased at a 1.9 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2015, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. Anecdotes aside, does this user feedback actually help create better products? Maxime Ge/Getty Images. In our study , we analyze the role that Facebook plays in the innovation process.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. The economy is doing well despite Germany’s accommodation of more than 1 million refugees since 2015. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible.

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Women in Consulting

JULY 25, 2013

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! EXPERIENCE.

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MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2015

You are more productive than ever. In March, Caixin, a Chinese business magazine, reported that Midea, a major Chinese manufacturer of air-conditioners and other appliances, plans to cut 6,000 of its 30,000 workers in 2015 to make way for automation. Congratulations. Just don''t expect to be paid more for it.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Disruption in business involves having the ability to sense changes occurring in technology, customer behaviors, and product demands and being able to evolve quickly and implement plans outside the norm for long-term survival. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Outbound Phone Marketing.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Not only was December industrial production an awful -0.4%, November was revised lower from -0.6% The Econoday Consensus Estimates for industrial production and manufacturing were -0.2% December was not a good month for the industrial economy as industrial production fell a sharper-than-expected 0.4 respectively.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. The challenges – market development, product design, logistics, communication — deter many companies from even considering rural markets in developing countries.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2015

The Canadian dollar plunged below 79 cents US today after data showed Canada’s gross domestic product contracted in November as manufacturing dropped the most since January 2009 and on declines in mining and oil and gas extraction. On Friday, the Financial Post reported Canada GDP Shrinks on Biggest Factory Drop in Six Years.

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MishTalk

JUNE 4, 2015

Economists overestimated Q1 productivity and underestimated Q1 unit labor costs in spite of blaming the weather and the port strike as transitory weakness. Let's take a look at Bloomberg Consensus Estimates for Productivity and Costs. The grinding halt that the economy came to the first quarter pulled nonfarm productivity down by 3.1

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. The marketing industry will be no exception. Data-Driven Marketing. Using AI in Marketing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. How Porsche got the product right. That was heartening to the company’s executives and product designers. How Fiat Chrysler got the product wrong.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). million per launch. References: Beswick, C.,

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That would make his product unaffordable for most of his core customers, and they would almost certainly switch to his competitors’ cheaper alternative. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. There was no good solution.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Our residential products don’t require an app to do their job; instead, they come with a variety of control options, an app among them.

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The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 23, 2018

Since mid 2015, I believe the top destructive addictive habit for many Amercians has been following national political news. Your involvement in political news takes you away from more productive and rewarding life activities (not to mention moving your business and marketing forward). It was a simple and easy switch, actually.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 16, 2017

She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. 11 years ago, Dorie Clark was focused on one job — helping companies with their marketing strategies and social media presence. Develop Your Marketing Approach as Your Business Grows.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2015, I started the first major breakthrough in my journey toward better health, DDP Yoga. All of our kids play music, and everyone has their own unique playlists. Music plays a part in just about every day of our lives. I quit smoking in 2011. That year, I started walking and then jogging.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. GOMs are typically composed of three dimensions: Geographic market units (regions, countries, or country clusters). Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

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MishTalk

APRIL 15, 2015

The string of good news in industrial production snapped at one month. The Fed''s Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report shows Industrial production decreased 0.6 For the first quarter of 2015 as a whole, industrial production declined at an annual rate of 1.0 percent in March after increasing 0.1

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. Drop product prices and boost volume growth.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In fact, wearable technology is becoming an increasingly popular trend with 50 million wearable devices shipped in 2015 and an expected shipment of 125 million devices in 2019. Every business is looking for ways to continually improve the productivity of its employees. Productivity of employees is also connected to their health.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2014

As of last year, 93% of senior marketing professionals use video for online marketing, sales or communications. Most (84%) used this content on their own website; and more than 60% also using it as a part of their social media and email marketing campaigns. My company is focused on conducting user experience research.

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