Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas. For example, consider Dez Blanchfield , whom I interviewed.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Although 82% of B2C and B2B companies use email marketing strategies, only 28% of consumers actually wish to receive promotional emails more often. Don’t let the effort you put into building your website and products go to waste. Here are 7 e-commerce marketing techniques to boost your online sales. Leverage Email.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

B2C: Stands for “business to consumer” and indicates that a business is aiming to sell directly to consumers rather than to other businesses. Deliverable: Work product that a consultant needs to provide to her manager or the client as part of a client engagement. Bandwidth: Capacity to take on additional work commitments.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

But for a more traditional B2B or B2C firm (like this one that sells to businesses, government, and consumers) there needs to be marketing plus some sales effort. As consumers, what’s the first thing we do when we need a new product or service?

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

If you are in the B2C space, you may not have personal relationships with your customers. Are product or service choices shifting? You could put certain product offerings on the back burner in order to promote others. Are those buying trends changing? Is purchasing activity decelerating?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.)

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In order to create value in India in the coming decade, companies must have a mobile-first strategy. Two-way video on a 4G platform will enable urban patients to avoid traffic and rural patients to consult remote specialists while making providers more productive with their time.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

These are amazing technologies with great promise for any level of executive in any B2C or B2B company. There’s a lot of buzz right now about machine learning and AI — and it’s justified buzz. They are also now available at a fraction of the cost compared to even five years ago.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

B2C firms have been the leaders in customer analytics initiatives. Extensive data and advanced analytics for B2C have enabled strategists to better understand consumer behavior and corresponding propensities as visitors and purchasers conduct daily activities through online systems. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Prudent Pedal

APRIL 23, 2019

For the past 20 years, the B2C marketing profession has been moving in the direction of professional services. READ: The Fallacy of Pro Services Productization. These consumer-focused companies are finally learning what professional services firms have known for decades—dare I say centuries. Their problem.”.

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ConsultX

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

.” - Mark Zuckerberg Referral marketing is the single most effective way that we can do marketing as a business consultant (once you’re established) and it’s a must have for any business to business, or even business to consumer companies, both B2B and B2C. Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 - 50 % of purchasing decisions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

Consumer-facing (B2C) companies like these and many others have long realized the power of online digital networks to address the questions or issues of their customers. Unfortunately, the few B2B companies that have responded to this reality by embracing customer networks usually have just copied a successful B2C formula.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. The whole focus is getting you to buy the product with samples and professional makeovers. Vail Resorts remade their entire marketing strategy with a program called EpicMix.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sales teams still relying on “old school” strategies and tactics will only go so far. Customer success Customer success (CS) solutions are used by brands to monitor the health of their customer relationships by keeping track of customer satisfaction and churn across their products and services. Where you go from there is up to you.

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1 to 1

JULY 25, 2024

This article examines the critiques of NPS, its performance in different business contexts, and emerging global trends in customer feedback strategies. The Need for Comprehensive Metrics in B2B and B2C Contexts In B2C environments, where interactions are more transactional, NPS can be a useful indicator of customer advocacy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

Many global marketers are still struggling to understand what steps they need to take to prepare for this regulation and how it will impact their marketing strategy moving forward. Yet the regulation impacts all companies globally, including those in the United States, that collect and manage data on citizens in the EU.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

In the B2B world, it’s all about lead generation: getting people to hand over their email addresses and phone numbers so that you can spam and telemarket them into submission, where “submission” means actually buying your product. And most of all, get your mind around the fact that you may actually have to pay for content.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

Lots of comments on this The Wall Street Journal story about the decline in sales of Bud Light , tying the sales decline to a “boycott” I’m skeptical of that line of reasoning. It is too simplistic for me.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Fandom begins when customers find others who share the same interests and engagement with the product or brand. ” Read More from Microsoft. This isn’t always easy.

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