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The 10 Biggest Mistakes Marketers Make—No. 2: Using Metrics That Don't Matter to Top Management As a marketer, you have no shortage of metrics at your disposal—including brand awareness, customer satisfaction, and ad readership, to name just a few. But your CEO and CFO, as well as your firm's shareholders, care less about these metrics than they do about others—particularly cash flow. Here are the right metrics to use to communicate marketing's real value. Get the full story. |
Tom Asacker
Bad Things Happen to Brands When Companies Run out of Ideas Make no mistake about it: When companies run out of ideas, bad things happen to brands. Instead of differentiating their offerings with meaningful value-added features, like healthier and more flavorful products, time-saving recipes and packaging, or even emotive, associative value, marketers end up resorting to price cuts and special promotions. Instead of taking a long-term view of customer value and growth in sales, earnings and new product development, their focus shifts to a short-term desire to grow market share with discounting and deal-making. Get the full story. |
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Bill Nissim
Virtual Worlds: The Next Realm in Advertising? What do Major League Baseball, Coca Cola, Well Forgo Bank, the W Hotel, and the American Cancer Society have in common? They all use a virtual realm to reach out to potential customers and supporters in novel ways. Get the full story. |
Scott Buresh
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High Tech Marketing/Business Model Boot Camp: Stepping up to the Microphone (Part 6 of 6) Can you imagine what it would be like to charge 20-200% more than your competitor and own market category dominance? This final part of the Boot Camp series focuses on ways your organization can increase its economic power. Get the full story. |
Hesh Reinfeld
Stretching the Truth Online Has Never Been Easier The author doesn't own a Blackberry. But his clients don't know that. They're impressed when they receive an email from him with the tag line: Sent from a BlackBerry wireless handheld. It shows that he's available 24/7 and always responsive to their every need. Is he lying? Literally, yes. However, in the world of business we are always stretching the truth to impress our customers, right? Read Hesh's lighter view of the business world. Get the full story. |
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