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It is really all that important? And why not use the employee suggestion box and simply give the winner a free lunch or a day off? (Hey… sometimes it works!)In fact, a lot of time and research has gone into defining the exact monetary value a good brand name delivers to the bottom line. And whil ...The Role Of Public Relations In Branding Because PR can be difficult to control, it is often discredited. According to Dick Lyles, president and chief operating officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a full-service consulting and performance improvement company, "People tend to migrate to things they can control. Even now, when an executive looks at an advertising message that's e ...Would You Like Fries with That? Is Your Graphic Designer Just an Order Taker Business owners waste thousands of dollars every year on web sites, brochures, sales flyers, etc. that don’t work. Sadly, these are often projects that shouldn’t have been started in the first place, but no one on their team (or their outsourced graphic designer) advised them it was a bad move. As a result, business owners waste ...What Are Your Marketing Decisions Based On? We all like to think we base our decisions on hard facts, but that’s not always the case. Business leaders will talk about doing their due diligence prior to making a decision; but in reality, when it comes down to it, what really pushes us to select one thing over another is our feelings.While instinct and intuition do play a role in bus ...
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