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Digital Advertising Is Essential to Small Businesses — and at Risk

Business and Tech

In our online economy, digital advertising and marketing have become critical to forging connections, not just commercial but also personal. Leveling the playing field Many of my clients wouldn’t be able to advertise at all without digital advertising. Some of my clients spend just a few hundred dollars.

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Distinguishing Brand Activation and Traditional Advertising

Flying Fish Lab

While traditional advertising methods have long been the go-to marketing channel for many businesses, the rise of brand activation has unveiled a new dimension to marketing strategies. Timing and Duration Traditional advertising will, without a doubt, excel in delivering repeated messages over an extended period.

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Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and takes them to market far better.

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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? This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change.

Strategy 261
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What are Marketing Dashboards and Why Do They Matter for Marketing Departments?

Leapfrogging

How to drive better marketing outcomes through use of a marketing dashboard. To do this, business leaders need to be able to effectively market and advertise their products and services to those in their target market. This was our reason for building the Marketing Dashboard. By upBOARD.

Marketing 100
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Marketing When Budgets Are Down

Harvard Business Review

The general rule of enterprise finance is that marketing budgets drop like a stone at the first sign of trouble and rise like a feather once the environment is more settled. It’s tough to see a significant increase in marketing budgets in the near term.

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

If you’ve been following IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards , you know that this year saw some really thrilling innovation come from some unexpected places. In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government.

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