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What Marketing Org Charts Tell You About The Business

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Every company has an official one and also a few “unofficial” charts. Look at how people are structured and what the reporting structure looks like and it will tell how the company is run, what is important to them, and how they think about their product and services and the market in general. The Right Marketing Structure.

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Best Companies Don't Need Marketing

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The reality is, more and more companies are adopting practices like these (especially telecommuting and flex hours) because technology is such that not only allows you to do it, but makes you more productive. But companies don’t offer these nice perks just because they are run by nice people.

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The Opposite of Advertising « The Effective Marketer

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Opposite of Advertising How can a company embark on an branding campaign without prominently displaying its logo?

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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

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However, some shortcuts become disastrous detours, and this is often what happens when a company relies on automation for significant portions of its social updating. An example of this is setting up your Twitter updates to automatically feed into your Facebook company page. Why do companies use this sort of indiscriminate messaging?

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Reinventing Marketing at GE

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Who would have thought that General Electric (GE), one of the most admired companies in the world didn’t have a substantial marketing organization up until recently. Marketing helped business leaders think outside their usual market and started to identify opportunities that weren’t even on the table previously.

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Are You Spending Enough on Online Marketing?

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Although the level of marketing spend doesn’t usually correlate to marketing effectiveness, it is useful to know how others in your industry or other companies of similar size are spending their money on marketing. There are many ways in which you can analyze and use the report: Look at company size and compare with your own budget.

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

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More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. A recent article I read on Harvard Business Review, “ Aflac’s CEO Explains How He Fell For The Duck ” made me think about brand messaging and the use of mascots. The company reported $9.7 That’s what makes them memorable.

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