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July 4, 2021July 3, 2021 andreweverett360

Online Marketing is the New Rent: Demand Generation vs Demand Harvesting

Grace Kite wrote an article titled Is Online Marketing the New Rent? (Sept 16, 2020).

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July 3, 2021 andreweverett360

Category Entry Points

Claire Strickett wrote a blog post titled Hunting Byron Sharp in the Wild (December 2016).

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June 30, 2021 andreweverett360

Bill Birchard on The Science of Strong Business Writing.

Bill Birchard wrote an article for Harvard Business Review (July-August 2021) titled The Science of Strong Business Writing.

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June 22, 2021 andreweverett360

Acquiring the First Thousand Customers

Michael Blanding wrote an article for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge titled How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers (13 July 2016). The article is about Harvard Business School’s Thales Teixeira’s research about how platform companies attract their first customers.

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June 19, 2021June 18, 2021 andreweverett360

Adam Grant on shooting the messenger

Adam Grant tweeted about the difference between weak, strong, and great leaders.

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June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 andreweverett360

Ritson’s 10 traits of a successful marketer

Matthew Valentine wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Ritson on the 10 traits of a successful marketer.

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June 16, 2021 andreweverett360

Matt Lerner says Personas are worthless for marketing

Matt Lerner  posted a thread on Twitter about personas.  “At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas. Here’s what we actually learned, plus what I now do instead.”

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June 11, 2021 andreweverett360

Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering

Michael Easter wrote an article for Men’s Health titled The ’20-5-3′ Rule Prescribes How Much Time to Spend Outside.

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June 9, 2021 andreweverett360

Marketing is an opportunity maximization game, not an efficiency optimization game

Charlotte Rogers wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Rory Sutherland: Marketers should see capitalism as a ‘discovery mechanism’

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June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 andreweverett360

Kurtosis as a measure of risk

I was looking at the definition of kurtosis on the Corporate Finance Institute website.

“Kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.”

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