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Marketing Fraud A Much Bigger Problem Than Marketers Realize, Study Shows

Marketing Fraud A Much Bigger Problem Than Marketers Realize, Study Shows by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 1, 2021 Some 43% of respondents in a recent White Ops survey said they could not estimate how much of the traffic coming to their website is bot activity as opposed to humans they wanted to reach. … Continue reading Marketing Fraud A Much Bigger Problem Than Marketers Realize, Study Shows →

Why You Want to Be the Problem Child

Problem Solving Culture

Brian Basilico February 4, 2021 I don’t know if you have any brothers or sisters or where you fall in the birthing order. I happen to be one of three. There’s my older sister, my middle brother, and I’m the baby. What I want to talk about today is why you want to become the … Continue reading Why You Want to Be the Problem Child →

Why Businesses Fail to Solve the Right Problem

Business Development

Steven Imke January 26, 2021 In business as in politics, people are too often looking for easy, short-term solutions to demonstrate action and therefore fail to solve the right problem resulting in making the real problem harder to solve in the long run. For example, Twitter and Facebook, seeking an easy-to-implement short-term solution, after some … Continue reading Why Businesses Fail to Solve the Right Problem →

Can E-commerce Solve the Problem of Slotting Fees?

eCommerce Platforms

Ali Faagba October 14, 2020 Understandably, the distribution channel of a product — from the manufacturer to the end-user — has a lot of intricacies and politics, prominent among which is the hot topic: slotting fees. The moral position of slotting fees has been a bone of contention among business scholars for decades — the … Continue reading Can E-commerce Solve the Problem of Slotting Fees? →

Cooler Screens is trying to solve digital advertising’s ‘last-mile’ problem

Digital Advertisement

The company offers unique in-store digital merchandising at the point of sale. Greg Sterling on July 7, 2020 The future of retail shopping involves the tighter integration of digital and in-store experiences. Online distribution of local product inventory is one example, buy-online-pick-up-in-store (“BOPIS”) is another, Amazon Go’s cashier-free checkout is a third. Inventory and ads. … Continue reading Cooler Screens is trying to solve digital advertising’s ‘last-mile’ problem →

No Skills, No Problem: Here’s 7 Simple Ways to Earn Money Online

Making Money

Kazi Hassan June 17, 2020 Tumisu / Pixabay The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a public health crisis, but it is also an economic one. In the three months since lockdown measures have been put in place, over 14 million Americans have lost their jobs and even more have had their hours reduced. If you’re … Continue reading No Skills, No Problem: Here’s 7 Simple Ways to Earn Money Online →

To Resolve A Problem, Stop Struggling And Do These 6 Things

Creativity

Liz Kislik — June 4, 2020 Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay From time to time, organizations face drastic challenges, whether they have to struggle to stay afloat or suddenly have more demand than they can manage comfortably. But even after any particular crisis runs its course, businesses will continue to face new strategic and operational problems in … Continue reading To Resolve A Problem, Stop Struggling And Do These 6 Things →

Fake reviews problem is much worse than people know

Fake Reviews

Like a virus it infects all the major review sites, especially Google and Amazon. Greg Sterling on April 22, 2020 Fake reviews are a growing problem for consumers and the local and product-search sites they rely on to make purchase decisions. We know from multiple studies that roughly 90% of internet users consult online reviews … Continue reading Fake reviews problem is much worse than people know →

The Growing Problem (And Cost) of Employee Turnover [Infographic]

Employee Training

Brian Wallace — October 8, 2019 Follow @nowsourcing The biggest downside to a strong economy right now is that turnover is growing at a high rate of speed. When employees have options they tend to look for more pay and better benefits as well as an opportunity to grow and advance in their careers. Turnover … Continue reading The Growing Problem (And Cost) of Employee Turnover [Infographic] →

Time Leakage: The Common (Yet Hidden) Problem That’s Hurting Your Profit Margins

Time Management

Karl Sakas — September 9, 2019 Follow @KarlSakas — September 9, 2019 Time Leakage is hurting your agency’s profit margins. Read on to see why… and how to fix it. What if you were wasting $ 15,000 per employee every year? You might already be doing this, thanks to a common (yet often hidden) problem: … Continue reading Time Leakage: The Common (Yet Hidden) Problem That’s Hurting Your Profit Margins →