How Can B2B Provoke Customer-Obsessed Growth?
Entering 2022, B2B marketers have focused their efforts on provoking customer-obsessed growth by fusing together the customer, brand and organization. However, in order to achieve this, they’ll first need to identify what’s preventing it.
How Social Commerce Is Fracturing Brand Loyalty.
As social commerce surpasses $30B in ad sales in the U.S., which is expected to double by 2025, it has paved the way for startup and up-and-coming brands to detour consumers by visually persuading them to swipe and click away
How Can M&A Expose its Most Valuable Commodity?
Invisible to the P&L balance sheet—and often overlooked during the pre- and post-M&A transaction—is the merger’s impact on branding and marketing. What will the new company be about? What will the transaction mean to its customers? How will it distance
Welcome to the NFT Metaverse.
By leveraging the characteristics of blockchain technology, NFTs are defined by three factors: ownership, transferability and authenticity. In the simplest terms, NFTs are digital certificates of authenticity, and based on where they were bought and resold, each transaction is recorded
What is energizing the power of brand collaboration?
In 2020, there was a growing trend of unlikely brand partnerships. These brand collaborations were being used to shift or elevate a brand’s perception, to prove that the brand was still relevant with a specific audience, or by opening the
How Can a Unified Brand Experience Drive Value?
No matter the organization—be it a start-up, middle-market direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand or SaaS B2B platform—it is critical that these companies place the customer experience at the center of their business.
Scoring a Company’s Overall Brand Health.
As the gatekeepers of marketing budgets, CEOs and CFOs rely heavily on their marketing teams to produce tangible marketing metrics that align with the goals of the business and that will justify a marketing initiative. To support this need, it
How Private Equity Can Unlock the Right Value-Creation Drivers.
To fully maximize investment value, private equity has traditionally focused on cost-cutting initiatives to drive returns. However, as access to real-time data and analytics are readily available, private equity and financial investors are now empowered by the ability
Harnessing the financial power of brand perception.
When it comes to making branding investments more accountable and linking branding to financial performance, CEOs, CFOs and investment firms are cautious when it comes to funding these initiatives to drive growth. However, research found that superior brand performance within a
Why M&A Needs a Pre-Merger Cultural Roadmap?
While selecting the right acquisition target, purchase price and a clear understanding of where and how to integrate acquired resources are a must to ensure post-merger success. Leadership and M&A firms can further increase the odds in their favor by