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Building a brand strategy: Essentials for long-term success

Martech

Brand strategy is built on a platform of differentiation, where a company can use its value prop to create competitive advantages and satisfy customer needs. The key to long-term success is using brand strategy to define your market position in order to create market share and revenue growth. Why is branding important? It’s a different skill set.

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Advice From Women Writers on How They Built Their Freelance Empires

ClearVoice

After burning the midnight oil both on the agency and in-house side, Sobel was quickly schooled on the ways her writing could improve. Locke Hughes: “Network.”. Locke Hughes: “Network.”. | #FreelanceWriting | #ContentMarketing | #GirlPower Click To Tweet. I still remember — lovingly — my very first byline.

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Bankers, Car Salesmen & Reality TV Interns: What 27 Marketing Execs Did in Their First Jobs

Hubspot

Sometimes we forget that every successful innovator, leader, and business executive had to start somewhere before getting where they are today. Many of them were once sitting in a rickety folding chair on the lawn of their alma mater, wearing an itchy cap and gown, and wondering what on earth they were going to do when they grew up.