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Business marketing last year was like a roller coaster ride.

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«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

According to the report, Facebook brought in $ 4 billion in advertising revenue last year and 79 percent of businesses market on Facebook.

Square announced in April that it would offer its small business customers working capital loans, while small business e-commerce software company Shopify similarly announced last month that it has gotten into the market with merchant cash advances.

As we reported last week, if Nokia stays in health care, it's likely that the company's way forward will be as a business - to - business and licensing company, something it's found massive success within the telecom and mobile tech market — the company reported around $ 28 billion in revenue in 2017.

Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.

Despite a lack of buy - in from B2B marketers, more businesses are employing content marketing (88 % — up 2 %) from last year, and 76 % of content marketers state that they plan to produce more content this year than last.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

But the recent decline in cryptocurrency prices since their feverish peak last year — when Bitcoin, now hovering around $ 8,700, nearly touched $ 20,000 — has convinced the government that safely regulated markets could be viable, according to Business Korea.

Beer was a staff writer for Marketing before joining Canadian Business last December.

Since Chen came aboard late last year, he's focused the company on its traditional customer base of business users and outsourced other functions so the company can pay less attention to the consumer market.

Last year saw the industry hit by a range of different memes and trends, some of which business professionals were happy to harness for marketing purposes and others which they'd sooner forget.

We spent the last year getting our company onboard with inbound marketing and content creation as the way to grow our businesses.

The Alerian MLP Index, which tracks about 75 percent of the market capitalization of MLPs operating in energy - related businesses such as pipelines or energy storage, was down more than 30 percent this year through Nov. 13, and even more from its peak in the summer of last year.

RC: If you look at business - to - business and enterprise — especially software as a service — people have gotten very bullish about the sector, and it has retreated about 30 percent in the public markets over the last four to five months.

According to CNN, you'll face a tough market if you're looking to sell your business; the number of sold small businesses fell 36 % from last year in the first quarter of 2009, and the price sellers paid dropped sharply.

Taking marketing into their own hands is how entrepreneurs can create a valuable and lasting business.

I thought I'd continue my article from last week by clarifying another point of confusion when it comes to writing a business or marketing plan.

Here again, the PC games industry — perhaps emblematic of its more pressing struggle to survive over the last decade — has led the way with new business models, or marketing strategies as some prefer to call it.

If you've been interested in business and marketing within the last five years or so, chances are you've heard this phrase so much you're ready to cry: «Create valuable content for your prospects and customers so they will know, like, and trust you.»

In May of last year, the company hired JPMorgan and RBC Capital Markets to examine «strategic business model alternatives.»

Mainly because industry consolidation has worsened banks» customer service on small accounts, small businesses left their banks in record numbers last year, according to PSI Global, a financial - services - marketing group in Tampa.

The arrangement is meant to last eight years; during that time, Shipp will take 30 percent of his students» speaking fees in return for assistance with business strategy, marketing, branding, product - line extensions, and — of course — the content and delivery of their presentations.

Just last week, the company announced Sponsored Updates, a new tool that allows businesses to market themselves to a wider audience.

If the deal goes through, San Mateo, California - based SolarCity will adopt Tesla's name and sell its solar panels alongside Tesla's power - storing batteries, which it has been marketing to homes and businesses since last year.

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«From a business perspective,» wrote Peter Tertzakian, chief economist at ARC Financial, last year, «each new barrel of oil must now compete for market share instead of being always guaranteed a top - dollar buyer.»

At GE (GE), Beth Comstock's «clean tech» Ecomagination initiative looks like feel - good marketing; under the hood, though, there's a real business that last year generated $ 18 billion in revenue.

Ironically, this last point is largely why many others are avoiding the public markets — they don't want the public market scrutiny on their businesses, much less have to reveal anything they're doing behind close doors.

Listen, we've been in the right hook business for the last 80 years, radio and television, and print, and billboards, and email marketing, and banner ads, it's pushing.

And, more worrisome, Kraft lost market share in the categories that generated 40 % of its U.S. businesses in 2014, Kraft's CEO John Cahill said last month.

Holiday marketing may seem like a no - brainer since the pre-holiday consumption cycle is a yearly event, but you have failed if you wait until the last minute to begin convincing customers to give your business attention during their holiday shopping.

Axis Communications of Lund, Sweden, the current market leader, has been around since the 1980s and did six times more business than Avigilon last year.

Business owners should be able to rely on long - lasting relationships with their accountants to provide them with networking contacts, consulting advice, and increased access to capital markets.

In a remarkable expression of business interests» frustration with the House anti-reform stalwarts, a Wall Street Journal editorial last week criticized their obsession with border security as «a case of the Republican Party letting its blood - and - soil wing trump its supposedly free - market principles.»

Some critics also question why Priceline is moving into the online meta - search market at a time when one of its rivals, Expedia (EXPE), last December exited this niche with the spinoff of its TripAdvisor business.

For example, if a business finds that email marketing was responsible for 40 percent of their conversions during the last holiday season it would be smart to ramp up email campaigns this year.

For most of the last century, IBM was the market leader for business technology, particularly mainframe computers.

Last year's No. 1 ranked program, Schulich markets itself as Canada's Global Business School, playing up its international ties and two overseas campuses (in Hyderabad, India, and Beijing).

Last fall, after three years of running my own business, I took a job as Vice President of Marketing and Entrepreneurship with my local economic development council.

While yogurt hasn't been the only problem facing the Minneapolis - based food business, analysts and investors were happy to hear last year that it was removing that thickness ingredient and making its offering similar to what else was on the market.

«Last year, we delivered higher revenue and stronger pre-tax margins despite a challenging environment for our market - making businesses,» Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

The market mostly reacted positively to Crown's latest results on February 22, for which it stressed the recovery in its VIP business in Melbourne and its interim 30 cents dividend is now regular policy after an announcement last year that it will now pay a fixed full - year dividend of 60 cents per share.

Reversing a trend towards soft - pricing in the commercial market, Steadfast said prices in its Australian small business portfolio had jumped 4.4 per cent in the half, compared with last year.

«These executives have made a lasting mark on our industry — growing and elevating partner programs, leading transitions to new business models, and introducing cutting - edge go - to - market strategies, among other remarkable achievements,» said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company.

The Bangalore - based ed - tech company had raised $ 140 million (934 crore) last year, to expand its reach in the domestic market with a learning app, and launch its services to other English - speaking countries to become a formidable player in the K - 12 tech - enabled education business.

Last month, Nettie Teter, WBENC's Senior Project Manager of Marketing, attended an exciting event in Austin as one of our Corporate Members, Office Depot, Inc. rolled out a new business platform aimed at helping small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Deutsche Bank reported on Thursday that its markets business also lagged its U.S. peers last quarter.