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Developing the social accountability today’s customers want.
Tapping into what touches people is the essence of pleasing customers.
Work out what your customers really want, meet their needs and thrive.
Marketers must ditch “best practice” and avoid a predictable approach in order to differentiate their brand from the competition, writes Rory Sutherland for Raconteur.
Most businesses love rules. Follow the rules and you’ll be safe.
This might work for the accounts department, argues Sutherland, but marketing is different. Successful marketers do not follow rules.
Marketing is one of the most rapidly developing areas of the business world and your company needs a champion with the qualities to embrace that challenge for the long haul, writes David Clarke for Strategy+Business.
It’s not so many years since the extent of most companies’ marketing efforts was an advert in the telephone directory. Today it’s a specialised field.
If you don’t know what the demand windows for your products are, not enough of your customers will be demanding them.
“The most predictable characteristic of today’s consumers may be their variability,” say Emre Sucu, Matt Egol, and Edward C. Landry writing for Strategy+Business. The predictable customer of a certain age, gender and postal code is a thing of a past.
The move towards specialised marketing training is provoking a wider debate over the need for qualifications.
What skills and knowledge do you look for when hiring marketing executives? Do you favour candidates with generic, degree-level training? Can you see more benefit in them learning on the job, or would it be valuable to be versed in your industry before they even step through the door?
The world is choking on marketing materials, but a good street team can cut through the clutter like a breath of fresh air.
If you are looking to raise brand awareness, build loyalty and increase sales, you need to utilise the power of human engagement. Interact directly with consumers, enabling them to connect with your brand on a personal level, rather than via a computer screen.
Converting leads into sales is becoming increasingly difficult in today’s chaotic digital landscape, writes Brian Hughes for Entrepreneur.
Even for the most seasoned marketing professionals, today’s digital landscape can seem daunting. Multiple marketing channels and constantly changing consumer behaviour and expectations can lead to confusion.
In a world where consumers are continuously bombarded with choice, companies must invest in finding out why they are losing sales and how they can plug the gaps.
Advertising might persuade a customer to consider your brand, but there are several more steps they have to take before they click ‘buy’ on your website or hand over their cash to a member of your in-store sales staff.
Companies competing in this era of disruption must adopt agile marketing practices or risk becoming irrelevant.
On average internet users decide whether or not to leave a web page after just three seconds’ browsing; the proliferation of information brought on by rapid technological innovation means that being able to get things done quickly has become more important than ever.
If you want to build great consumer experiences, make customer service your company’s priority.
Despite the service industry’s predominance in the private sector, most service companies still use operating models designed for the manufacturing industry, where the focus is on the quantity and quality of goods produced rather than interactions with customers.
Digital disruption and the rapid pace of change mean no marketer can be an expert in every channel.
Writing for Marketing Week, Jonathan Bacon takes a look at how the rise of personalised marketing and digital channels has left employers facing an increasingly wide skills gap, as they struggle to identify exactly which skills they should be recruiting for.
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Becoming the authority in your field is a great way to grow your business, says Brian Horn, writing for Entrepreneur.com. The author outlines seven easy…
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Writing for Inc.com, Jon Miller outlines some marketing priorities to help a new business succeed: 1) Product value. Your product is the “bread and butter…
To compete with the giants in your industry, you need to make your company stand out, observes Will Yakowicz, writing for Inc.com. Your company’s brand,…
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You might think you have a customer-driven strategy, but it’s not always obvious who your most important customers are. Writing for Harvard Business Review, Robert…
Think of a powerful company and it’s likely to have an equally powerful logo. Examples include the golden arches of McDonald’s, Starbucks’ mermaid and the…
In Harvard Business Review, Eric Janszen considers the current economic climate and discusses the challenge of selling to debt-averse consumers. As the author points out,…
Mission-driven companies come under the spotlight in an entry for Harvard Business Review's Blog Network by Michael V. Russo. As he points out, many modern…
Writing for Forbes.com, Marc Babej argues that entrepreneurs can learn from recession-era hard-sell marketing techniques, which he says are making a comeback. As consumers have…
Social technologies are a modern phenomenon. They have found favour with consumers at a faster rate than any previous technologies. Writing for McKinsey Quarterly, Jacques…