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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

Influencers are much more than the “Instafamous”: They are diverse individuals with established expertise, expansive platforms, and refined strategies of engaging target audiences and shaping their behavior. Building an Effective Influencer Strategy. For example, consider Dez Blanchfield , whom I interviewed.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” The metrics also changed.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business

Bain & Company and ROI Consultancy Services (formerly PollBuzzer) recently surveyed almost 2,200 consumers in Atlanta and Washington, DC, about the prices at eight retail chains carrying groceries. The right combination of tactics, of course, depends on a company’s sector, strategy, and proposition to customers.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. But chasing the cool factor can lead to compromised ROI.

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How to Get People to Subscribe to Your Newsletter

Harvard Business

Indeed, one 2015 study revealed that email marketing had an average ROI of £38 (about $50 USD) for every dollar invested. I’ll share three strategies I’ve learned in the past four years, as I’ve worked to build my mailing list to nearly 50,000 people.

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A fast-evolving CX landscape reveals opportunities and challenges for brands

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CX leaders are grappling with the rapid rise of AI tools, the need to embrace digital while maintaining a human touch, growing associate burnout, and continual pressure to cut costs and demonstrate ROI wherever they can. But it makes sense for brands to prioritize ROI over KPIs, said Denby, speaking as part of a panel.

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