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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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How to Optimize Email Marketing for the New Normal of COVID-19

Brunner

Reading emails outside pre-COVID times is another new normal for digital marketers. Prior to the pandemic, Tuesdays and Thursdays were the ideal days to send a marketing email. In the last 12 months, 78% of marketers have seen an increase in email engagement (Not Another State of Marketing, 2020).

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

How do we make money in this business? What is the underlying economic logic that explains how we can deliver value to customers at an appropriate cost?” Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002).

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. In 2002, Circuit City looked at the retail landscape, saw success in its future, and decided CarMax needed to be its own company.

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How to Nail Your Most Valuable Metrics Using the Customer Journey

Moves the Needle

As you can see, this journey combines awareness marketing, with product marketing, a sales funnel including conversion, and then into product engagement, and ends with "passionate", which some people include with product -- you often hear the word delight -- or is described as branding, where you hear the word "loyalty".

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B Either figure out something different or figure out how to be a profitable commodity… it works for Coke! I saw this and worked on this firsthand. It wasn’t pretty. after having invested about $58B more for a total of $102B in AT&T Broadband.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

However, a business model shouldn’t be innovated or improved ad-hoc in a “one-and-done” fashion – instead due to its importance and the dynamic changing market conditions it should be updated and checked continuously on a regular basis. This figure shows how competitive advantage is generated over a market lifecycle.