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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. While it sounds obvious, their research found that more than half the time CEOs and CMOs in the same company were misaligned on marketing’s primary role.

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Navigating the Pitfalls of Google’s Performance Max for Online Advertising

Brunner

Brunner Recommends Rigorous Testing Before Going with ‘PMax’ Google launched Performance Max in late 2021 with lots of fanfare about the benefits of AI-powered online advertising. We recommend that advertisers exercise caution using PMax, and we’re not the only ones. More than two years later, reviews are mixed.

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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

What makes more sense: To be the first player in a brand new market, able to be the first (or only) company which customers buy from? To wait until other companies have proven there is a market for a new offering, and then quickly develop and scale your own? The early bird catches the worm … ? There are proponents of both camps.

Strategy 257
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Podcast S5E105: Perry Marshall – Detox, Declutter, Dominate

Idea to Value

Perry wrote the highest-selling book on internet advertising, the Utlimate Guide to Google Ads , and has since spent his time refining the 80/20 Pareto principle into strategies to help companies focus on the parts of their business which bring the most reward. 00:07:00 – How Google changed the way advertising works.

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Examples of Lateral Thinking in Marketing

Destination Innovation

Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. The company has registered the site www.comparethemeerkat.com and sure enough it gets many visitors.

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Three Ways Diversity Boosts Your Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

Pepsi’s recent advertising PR disaster was a memorable misfire, if only for the wrong reasons. Diversity is great for the workplace in many ways, but it’s also great for companies that want to push their industry forward. The post Three Ways Diversity Boosts Your Innovation Strategy appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Company-Wide Innovation Is an Anticipatory Imperative

Daniel Burrus

It is likely that employees don’t think of their role as being part of innovation, either for a lack of understanding of what innovation means at the company or the literal thought that their department couldn’t possibly innovate anything of value. But innovation should be company-wide, not restricted to one person or department.

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