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Are you risk averse? — Don’t leave your business unprotected from the unknown.

Today, many companies talk about risk, but what are they doing to protect themselves from the things they don't know.  How does a company keep abreast of its environment?  A simple, effective way is with secondary research provided by an objective source. Secondary Research (research from the web and other secondary sources) provides important strategic…
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Marketing Defined. What is your definition?

Marketing Defined and Your Definition of Marketing After reading, please click on the link to share your definition of marketing. Why define marketing? A definition indicates competency and promotes legitimacy. When precisely defined words are communicated they should convey a vivid, precise understanding of the concept, so that everyone can interrupt correctly what is meant…
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Marketing and Go-to-Market Strategy

Marketers have a tendency to focus on immediate tactical needs to the detriment of long term, high value strategic market planning.  Its always disappointing when we are approached by clients when they decide to skip the strategic marketing phase of a project.  In order to keep costs down and speed a project along, they always…
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Show Respect, Keep Surveys Short!

Conducting primary research (collecting data yourself) is hard. Once you have a clear objective of what it is you want to know, developing the questions to reflect your curiosity, decided on a target audience and venue---- then the most difficult aspect happens. Getting people to respond.
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