What’s Next for Nigerian Production Studio EbonyLife Media?
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
EbonyLife Media CEO Mo Abudu considers how to move forward in her quest to tell authentic African stories to the world.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
EbonyLife Media CEO Mo Abudu considers how to move forward in her quest to tell authentic African stories to the world.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 2, 2018
Over 90% of medium and large businesses have used social media in their marketing for five years or longer. Yet the CMO Survey reveals that nearly half of marketers are unable to show the impact of their social media investments. ” But countless businesses have done just that with social media. Evan Smogor/Unsplash.
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Tom Spencer
JANUARY 4, 2025
Consumers are no longer swayed by just a great product, but seek more than that, craving authenticity and a genuine connection to the brand. One answer lies in founder-led marketing, a relatively new concept, but one taking the social media world by storm. Here are 3 actionable strategies that you can use to get started.
Tom Spencer
MARCH 31, 2023
Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Tim Ferriss: Follow the 80/20 rule One crucial strategy for getting organised is to prioritise your time.
Harvard Business
JUNE 5, 2018
That probably includes a lot of Instagram posts, but it’s not only social media. In short, we have become less productive learners. Here are four ways to become a more productive learner. To make this concrete, after reading this article, you could start building a framework of how to become a more productive learner.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Over the last two years, I conducted four different experiments to monitor my own behavior, implementing trackers and blockers in order to better understand how social media usage affected my productivity.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 30, 2018
In the flurry of statistics that exist around personal productivity, there’s one I find especially alarming : The average person is distracted or interrupted every 40 seconds when working in front of their computer. In productivity circles, this phenomenon is known as Parkinson’s law. Sarah Lawrence/Getty Images.
Management Consulted
MAY 28, 2017
In fact, the firm is already beating out heavyweights such as McKinsey, Bain, and Parthenon-EY for strategy projects in the tech sector due to better industry specialty. On the value creation side, Bulger Partners covers 13 different types of value assignments (growth strategy offerings, technical strategy, operations, etc.).
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
The answer to the shift away from reliance on outbound sales could reside in social selling , the strategy of adding social media to the sales professional’s toolbox. With social selling, salespeople use social media platforms to research, prospect, and network by sharing educational content and answering questions.
Tom Spencer
MAY 17, 2020
This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. Delete Social Media Phone Apps: You don’t need to be in-the-know 24/7.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 25, 2024
For instance, AI-driven customer relationship management tools can automate data entry, lead scoring , content marketing, follow-up emails, and generating reports, freeing up employees to focus on more strategic activities like developing growth strategies, enhancing customer relationships, and driving innovation.
Successful Independent Consulting
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
Their branding helps drive sales by keeping their products or services fresh in the consumer’s mind. Especially in social media, think about your brand before you comment or share something. I used to be an expert at creating organizational change strategies for major system implementations like Oracle and SAP. Just do it!
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 22, 2018
The family-owned business runs Puerto Rico’s largest media company— (GFR Media) as well as other companies focused on customer engagement (LinkActive) and real estate (Kingbird). When it came to the business, we had gone back 20 years and distributed the paper as a print product. Were those related to the losses?
Harvard Business
JANUARY 18, 2018
.” And for those in manufacturing or production companies, the future may arrive even sooner. ” Machine learning algorithms are also predicted to replace people responsible for “optical part sorting, automated quality control, failure detection, and improved productivity and efficiency.” Insight Center.
Comatch
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity. Independent consultants are multi-role players, having to master every aspect of their consulting product. With a creative hobby, every new creation can be a topic for a post on a blog, social media account, or website. Stay Focused. Drive Neuroplasticity .
Harvard Business
MAY 9, 2018
As entertaining as it is to watch these two billionaires argue in public, their different perspectives are near-perfect expressions of the two most influential strategy ideas of the past half-century. Buffett’s notion of moats that prevent competition is nearly as old as the field of strategy itself. of BCG wrote in HBR in 1988.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2017
A while back, I took a year to experiment with every piece of personal productivity advice I could find. Our devices offer a cornucopia of distractions, whether it’s email, social media, or texting with friends and family. Chances are that at this very moment you’re procrastinating on something. Disconnect.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Perhaps you want one for talking about industry news and business strategy (if only to avoid boring your non-work friends), another for talking politics, and yet another for talking about your kids or your pets or your triathlon training. You may need more than one of these safe spaces.
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. A New Type of Local Partner. Known as “Mr.
Chad Barr
MARCH 12, 2025
Leveraging ChatGPT Canvas can significantly boost your productivity and content quality. Saving Time & Enhancing Productivity For professionals who create content regularly, efficiency is key. Start leveraging ChatGPT Canvas today, and experience the transformation in your content strategy, productivity, and results!
Consulting Matters
JULY 15, 2020
So this quick win is all around how you can begin to either start with your website strategy or refine your website strategy so it is set up to attract and impress your perfect ideal client. So let me share my screen and give you some ideas on how you can start developing your website strategy. Consulting Website Strategy.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Knowing this in advance is a useful strategy. For example, an ad campaign with a budget half of what it should have been, or an almost complete social media promotion does nothing much at all except help the media companies. It’s possible to be productive and create value with halfway projects.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 8, 2025
Manufacturing: Optimizing production processes far beyond human capability. Create social media posts, edit videos, or even generate ideas for content that aligns with current trends and audience preferences. Simulate business scenarios to predict the impact of a proposed strategy, helping clients make data-backed decisions.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
In this model, consumers buy products during their engagement with the content provider. In China, content-based platforms are generating a growing proportion of e-commerce, presenting a growing threat to established platforms like Alibaba and JD.com.
Consulting Matters
MARCH 9, 2020
But this is not a profitable strategy if you want to join a professional association to find clients. You forward posts on social media that you like, you post your own ideas, you write decks to influence your clients to action, you connect with people at parties and events and you accept LinkedIn requests on the daily.
Consulting Matters
JUNE 15, 2020
Even if you want to help a company with their marketing strategies, it's not the same as marketing yourself. You need a website, social media presence, posting strategies, email marketing and so much more. You need a website, social media presence, posting strategies, email marketing and so much more.
Successful Independent Consulting
JUNE 19, 2017
For 10 years as an independent change strategy consultant, I used this tactic to win several projects. Many clients don’t understand the difference between change management work and the more complex change strategy work. This goes a long way toward removing uncertainty and skepticism. Ideally include a testimonial from the client.
Chad Barr
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Whether it’s clearing room in a product or service line, pausing to reassess strategies, or giving ourselves time to think creatively, progress is born from intentional gaps. The best strategies incorporate both momentum and course correction. The backspace teaches us that it’s okay to erase and restart.
Chad Barr
AUGUST 21, 2024
As you work on your next content creation, consider the following strategies to maximize its reach and effectiveness. Share short video clips : Edit key moments into short clips for social media, linking back to your blog. Share testimonials : Promote client success stories on social media and your site to build credibility.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 29, 2025
“Provide coaching questions to help a client struggling with [specific challenge] related to [leadership, business growth, mindset, productivity, etc.].” “Analyze multiple scenarios for [business decision], including potential risks, benefits, and alternative strategies to mitigate risks.”
Harvard Business
APRIL 11, 2018
In particular, there were four that made me rethink a lot of the conventional wisdom on productivity and time management. ” I don’t waste much time on social media (I define “waste” as time spent scrolling aimlessly through feeds, rather than posting with a professional purpose in mind). Indeed, I spent about 1.35
Chad Barr
MARCH 5, 2025
What This Tool Does and Why It Matters This tool is designed to enhance and streamline critical aspects of your business, including: Content Generation & Strategy: Create compelling articles, reports, and presentations in minutes, freeing up valuable time for high-impact work. Enhanced Creativity & Ideation: Need fresh ideas?
Harvard Business
JULY 26, 2018
Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. China’s WeChat has most evidently pursued this strategy. This is a subtle but important distinction.
Management Consulted
APRIL 2, 2017
Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! in revenue (wow!). Bain & Company.
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 29, 2020
This gives more flexibility to incorporate as well as capture complex aspects like interactions and synergies within and between media groups, carryover effects of advertising , and diminishing returns of media (described by an S-shaped curve). pricing, distribution, media, discounts, seasonality, promotion, etc.). Case Study.
Chad Barr
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Generate Actionable Insights: The tool doesn’t just summarize; it enables you to extract the key ideas and turn them into practical steps or strategies for your business, team, or personal growth. Saves You Time and Boosts Productivity Here’s an example: you come across a 90-minute webinar about “Fasting and Longevity.”
Harvard Business
JUNE 6, 2018
Retailers and manufacturers are rushing out new products to keep pace with the leaders of fast fashion such as Zara, H&M, and Forever 21, which launch new fashions every week or so. Another is the greater product range available online without the need to carry inventory in a prime-location store. Insight Center.
Consulting Matters
MARCH 16, 2023
This is how I help my clients in my signature Business and Brand Strategy and Messaging program. Like any business, the first step is strategy – what do you do, for whom, and why. And the ways that you can deliver that value framed up in compelling products and services. It's a person your business exists to serve.
Tsavo Neal
JANUARY 20, 2022
Daniel Siegel – Strategy Consultant My website is one of the cornerstones of my business and marketing strategy. Fabian purchased my book Productize Yourself: The Consultant’s Guide To Attracting Clients Through Your Website to help him write, design, and market his consulting website.
CaseInterview.com
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The media turns issues into black and white. Social media revenue optimization algorithms do the same. Love it or hate it… you’re paying attention (and generating advertising revenue for the publisher or social media platform). How to Live an Amazing Life – Sign Up for Free Tips and Strategies for your Career and Life.
Tsavo Neal
JULY 14, 2020
When most people hear “personal brand”, they think social media. But social media is fragile. It’s where you get people to join your mailing list, buy your product, and enquire about your services. When you post content to social media, it’s all but gone just a few days later. Buy a product you’re selling?
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Here are a few strategies that can help you streamline your schedule and build in room to complete your new goals and resolutions. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Pausing to consider what needs to be removed from your schedule takes time. But it makes all the difference between being busy and being effective.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
After a public outcry over privacy and their inability — or unwillingness — to address misleading content, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms finally appear to be making a real effort to take on fake news. You can bet this got the attention of social media companies. t_kimura/Getty Images.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 7, 2023
This article will explore some of the most notable examples of AI in consulting, including its use in market research, strategy development, and operational optimisation. This can help consultants to identify key market trends, develop more accurate market research reports, and craft more effective marketing strategies.
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