Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The emergence of data science and the proliferation of new media channels has radically changed some traditional marketing jobs, while creating new ones. As a whole, all these changes are part of the evolution away from marketing simply as art into a hybrid of art and science. Digital Marketing. Content Marketing.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s how you promote yourself and “go to market.” This concept is borrowed from advertising. I used to be an expert at creating organizational change strategies for major system implementations like Oracle and SAP. It’s about your reputation. It’s about your image, how you’re perceived in the workplace and online.

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Harvard Business

JULY 23, 2024

A conversation with ad executive Leslie Zane on branding today.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s a great challenge to accurately measure the effects of advertising, packaging, distribution channels, media expenditures, social media Likes and Tweets, and sales organizational structure on brand share or sales revenue. Is marketing solely a game of chance, or might there be a way to bring scientific methods to the table?

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Buzzsprout

MARCH 28, 2024

And this new wave of advertising isn't going anywhere; podcast ads are set to climb exceeding $4 billion in revenue by 2025. In this blog, we'll break down everything you need to know about podcast advertising and show you how to leverage different types of podcast ads for optimal results. Why is podcast advertising effective?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

MMM assists marketers in optimizing future spends and maximizing effectiveness (i.e. We can construct a regression equation that considers the proportion of investments in different marketing channels and develop an algorithm to maximize revenues. Reading Time: 4 minutes. it establishes which mediums are working better than others).

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 22, 2020

What is essential for successful marketing mix modeling? Is the market for the product or service growing? The goal is to accurately measure sales to ultimate users (the people the marketing efforts are focused upon). Advertising measures: Money spent on media advertising is seldom useful by itself.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2021

Ever since I started my undergraduate degree, I was keen on securing a job in strategy consulting. While most consultancies are establishing programs to reduce work hours and improve work-life balance, my personal experience revealed that this is little more than a marketing effort. This ultimately leads to a steep learning curve.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

As people search for answers, assistance becomes the new marketing battleground. And the biggest challenge marketers face in this age of assistance is knowing when to act. more likely to manage marketing technology within their marketing organization today. . How Leading Marketers Get Time on Their Side.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Also, the larger the firm, the more overhead the billing rate needs to cover such as partner salaries and bonuses, real estate, advertising, and training. Figure out your market rate. This is your market rate. I said I could do an assessment, strategy, and plan in three to four weeks and my rate was $225 an hour.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

That commitment required a side hustle of some sort, which is when Nicholas turned to the internet marketing world. When he started using Facebook as a major advertising platform for his work, he quickly became one of the most recognized agencies/consulting businesses in the market. But that was just the beginning.

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The Fearless Marketer

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

When I was intensively studying marketing in the “early days” of Action Plan Marketing, I read Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins. Perhaps the best marketing book ever written, published in 1923. These, and many other companies he wrote advertising copy for, are still in business 100 years later.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In today’s business landscape, sustainability is no longer a niche concern; it’s a core component of corporate strategy. A study by Harvard Business School found that companies with robust sustainability practices outperform their peers in terms of stock market performance and profitability.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Much of marketing is premised on companies delivering messages to customers to influence their purchases and consumption. Indeed, the largest advertisers in the world are companies such as Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, and Unilever, which sell branded low-involvement products that are routinely purchased and consumed at a regular pace.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. Looking for Millennials?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

Marketing consultants advise companies on marketing strategies and campaigns. Marketing consultants may work as freelancers, or as part of a digital agency (such as Slalom ), marketing agency (such as Ogilvy ), or larger firm that has digital and marketing capabilities (such as McKinsey Digital or BCG X ).

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 28, 2023

Debunking Myths and Understanding the Psychology A few months ago the PICA community gathered for a webinar with Stacey Brown Randall , a leading light in business referrals strategy. And how do we do it all without spending money and effort on digital advertising and direct marketing? Referrals beget referrals.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

It also means being able to correctly classify your market. B2C and B2B sales are very different processes, requiring different strategies. How B2C and B2B sales strategies differ. B2C companies try to widen their market base through solid branding, which means sending out a clear and consistent message to the market.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

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. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

In management terms, it needs a value proposition , a business model , and a strategy. But it’s struggling with the third (strategy) because Instagram has been copying its most popular features. .” That puts him firmly on one side of the long-running strategy debate. Or does sustainable strategy require more ?

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Magazine and they think they’re digital marketing experts. What is the market segment or industry of your ideal client? For example, start-ups, mid-market, or global companies? You can add bells and whistles later as your business grows (a nice logo, search engine optimization, an elaborate content marketing strategy, etc.).

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

After discussing Jacobi’s sales woes, Shani, suggested he try out Albert, Adgorithm’s AI-driven marketing platform. It works across digital channels, like Facebook and Google, to measure, and then autonomously optimize, the outcomes of marketing campaigns. Jacobi decided he’d give Albert a one-weekend audition.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Sometimes the marketing message has fallen off. So, sometimes it’s a disconnect just on that marketing plan. You have a small, local marketing plan that really resonates with a particular geographical community, or some other psychographic community. Well, sneakers is a bigger market. Why isn’t it getting out?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss Verizon’s write-down on Oath (Yahoo, AOL) and the challenges with building a digital advertising business. They also debate the notion of Radical Transparency, before sharing their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast. 21c Museum Hotels.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2019

Much of the advertising purchased during the Super Bowl is about selling corporate brands rather than products. Harvard Business School professor Shelle Santana discusses her case, “Super Bowl Storytelling,” (co-author: Jill Avery), regarding the art of storytelling on the world’s biggest television stage.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For example, one of the most striking differences we saw depended on whether the product was for a mass market. The Chinese believed that the mere fact that a product was for the mass market indicated the product was creative. But Americans believed that being designed for a mass market did not make a product creative.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

A recent CMO Survey indicates that marketers plan to double their spending on social media in the next five years. This disparity highlights an important, and potentially costly, problem: Marketers continue to increase social media spending, yet many are still uncertain about management, strategies, and integration.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing. Here is a simple process from my book Social Media Strategy, Marketing, and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Unfortunately, many tech startups get stuck at this stage because they can’t quite figure out a scalable way to go to market. Figuring out a go-to-market approach is no trivial exercise — it separates the companies that will be successful and sustainable from those that won’t. What about pricing?

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

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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. Worldwide, there are 3.4

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based New Business Models, Old Strategies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Sometimes this is the natural result of portfolio strategy. But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. Brand consideration went up 20% without any big TV advertising dollars.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

This is particularly true for the marketing department, which is changing at such a break-neck pace that marketing success now depends heavily on support from HR to identify and train new skillsets. On the flip side, success in HR could use a major assist from marketing, or at least HR professionals who think like marketers.

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