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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded).

Marketing 121
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Guerrilla Marketing: Growth Hacking Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

The way to marketing strategy involves high energy and imagination in order to grab the attention of the audience you want to target. Another really great example of this tactic was in 2002 when Sony hired actors to walk around cities and ask strangers to take selfies with them. Conclusion.

Marketing 156
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6 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics For New Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Quite the opposite, guerrilla marketing tactics offer the factor of surprise, which is exactly what it takes to generate buzz, draw the attention of a target audience, and improve visibility. A usual scenario is to infiltrate marketers into their target audience and have them start building hype around the product.

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The Long And Short Of Rebranding Your Business

YoungUpstarts

You may have just been acquired, your business might be trying to come out of a major crisis or you could need to rebrand because your core audience no longer identifies with your business. Executing A Rebranding Campaign. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq.

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11 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Just one example of this is the fact that most entrepreneurs and founders use freelancers these days and one of the most frustrating things for most of us are the third parties costs involved when it comes to hiring and paying out freelancers on the various gig type platforms once they accept the work and ultimately once the work has been completed.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She believes that before building relationships with our audiences to achieve their goals, we have to connect with them first. Serving as the founder of TalentCulture and #WorkTrends Community has allowed her to collaborate with top brands like IBM, Google and Microsoft in letting them scout and hire excellent talent. Lilach Bullock.

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A Marketer’s Ode to Gawker

crowdSPRING Blog

As Farhad Manjoo put it in the New York Times : Created in 2002 after the dot-com bubble, Gawker was far from the first online news site; it wasn’t the first blog or the first network of blogs, either. Gawker showed that a brash, unfiltered voice had an audience. A creative campaign could be cause for celebration in this world.

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