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Reputation is the overall estimation in which an organisation is held by its internal and external stakeholders based on its past actions and probability of…
Content is branding: Your content is your emotional DNA. It’s how you position yourself in your market. It’s your top selling points and your…
Design thinking is a proven and repeatable problem-solving protocol to discover new opportunities with extraordinary results. It’s an objective view and a warm embrace of…
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Exploring effective methodologies and approaches to delivering the best customer experience… As the late Steve Jobs famously said, “You have to start with the customer…
I think there is so much said about storytelling you don’t need another essay on the subject. But if I have to say one…
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Each year in New York, the Luxury Marketing Council Worldwide(“L.M.C.W.”) holds its annual “temperature taking” view of the luxury market to look back to last year,…
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Sure, high quality and exclusivity matter, but the luxury brands that stand out prioritize relationship building above all else. By Andrew Medal Founder, Agent Beta What…
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When you live with congruency, life becomes easy and all the different parts of your life shape into a new, greater whole… Life gets…
If you can’t manage your time effectively to do things most important to you, then what’s the point? In science, time is usually defined by…
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The most critical component for achieving anything in life, is getting things done. And to get those things done, you need self-discipline. Self-discipline is the…
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