Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

The “Google” brand is the largest of those companies, and it includes search, advertising, maps, apps, YouTube, and Android. Eventually, with growth in search advertising slowing, investors’ dissatisfaction manifested itself in a stagnant stock price. But I doubt this move will fully pacify the uneasy investor.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Superficially, the disruptors do the exact same thing: draw users and serve advertisers. It has been a great 20 years for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

If my advertising firm were to send a client a bill for work that was never authorized — or for work outside the project scope that I thought was a good idea but had never discussed with anyone — the client would be outraged. One contained a $14,000 shock, another a $30,000 jolt, yet another an $80,000 knot in my stomach.

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Cash Flow Advertising Small Business Benefits 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

One giant mutual fund, which spends $135 million on advertising how thoroughly it works for clients, has just one employee overseeing the voting and stewardship of 10,000 companies. They mean that I can have the rights to the cash flows from a company’s shares without owning the share itself. And that is not the end of it.

Cash Flow 13

Cash Flow Government Advertising Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Even a slight tweak — such as moving to a club pricing model like Costco’s — might have solved its cash-flow problems. Its grand vision was to accumulate millions of consumers so that it could monetize them through advertising.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Scaling Advertising Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. The company has piles of money — $3.6

Marketing 14

Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Whether you’re in financial services, consumer goods, advertising, hi-tech, or public health, the nature of your day-to-day job is likely changing to include data. You need to understand the two or three that drive your organization’s profitability and cash flow.” What the Experts Say. That’s too many.

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Cash Flow Metrics Recruitment Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

But when those people send out their surveys, they are advertising for SurveyMonkey to everyone who receives the survey. Some people never pay for a SurveyMonkey subscription, because they only need small surveys sent to a few people, with limited analytics.

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Cash Flow Revenue Metrics Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

CMOs must demonstrate and track marketing’s impact by focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs) that are important for shareholder value such as strong cash flow, cost of capital, return on capital, and operating margin. Why is this so challenging? Get more for the money.

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Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 10

Chris LoCutro

MARCH 5, 2024

And you're looking at the p&l all the time, you're looking at cash flow all the time, you're looking at sales projections all the time, you're looking at expense reports all the time. And you're sitting there, maybe you're in an unhealthy place cashflow wise, within your business.

Small Business 59

Small Business Operations Accounts Energy 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

WhatsApp’s dollar-a-year user fees don’t add up to much cash flow. The entire web of advertising would become a more interesting place," Ford argues. The company’s CEO keeps it taped to his desk. It says “No Ads! No Gimmicks!” You can add to that: “No Revenue!” Or, at least, not much revenue.

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Benefits Cash Flow Revenue Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2017

Target your advertising on LinkedIn and Facebook with a greater degree of precision. Perhaps you could study the prospect’s S-1 and their CEO’s letter to shareholders to develop an ROI proposition that is uniquely of interest to them. Host an exclusive VIP dinner.

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Sales Sales Cash Flow Compensation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Taxes on revenues (not to be confused with VAT ), taxes on assets, taxes that are paid in advance of profits or receipts, tax refunds that take months to be repaid — these are a huge burden to a rapidly scaling company in which cash flow management is a matter of survival.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

However, the real revenue-providing customers are companies that pay for advertisements (they may be called “revenue units”). For example, ostensibly, Facebook’s customers are its daily users (call them “asset units” for argument’s sake).

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Walk Me

AUGUST 18, 2022

Rolling forecasting also affects cash flow as demand changes due to external factors such as Covid-19. Use rewards and cash or holiday incentives to employees and other means such as championing staff who embody shared values. Capital spending and cash flow are more accessible to manage more efficiently.

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Manager Hospitality Insurance Operations 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

Its this specific knowledge, like how to manage the cash flow, the people, the production process  but its also knowing how the different functions fit together. Advertising Leadership Research' Its really hard to replace people who know the firm-specific routines and structures that make an agency competitive.

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Cash Flow Advertising Metrics Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Let’s look at four value chains Apple could disrupt, each of which in markets that, on the face of it, seem large enough to offer hope: television, advertising, health care, and automobiles. Just as traditional television will be with us for many more years, so will traditional television advertisements. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Assets Advertising Cash Flow Revenue 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

AT&T is merely paying — actually, overpaying — for the cash flows from those assets up front. They are market-share leaders in advertising, hardware, e-commerce, and social networking. ” The logic is seductive but doesn’t pass the value creation test. There’s no net benefit.

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Assets Cash Flow Media Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

During liquidation, retailers can reach new demographics and markets by using bold signage and unconventional advertising methods such as “sign-walkers.” Because of the security provided by inventory, these loans do not carry the financial covenants and investment limitations of cash-flow loans.

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Cash Flow Revenue Banking Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

To small restaurants with tight cash flow, these gestures meant the world. Oddly enough, Eat24’s biggest break came when they left Google and Facebook as marketing platforms after advertising rates rose. To a large franchise, they wouldn’t. Go after “undesirable” media.

Marketing 15

Marketing Cash Flow Advertising Benchmarking 15

Chris LoCutro

APRIL 1, 2025

We're going to be tackling a game- changing concept that can solve one of the biggest struggles small business owners face, and that is unpredictable cash flow. Even medium sized businesses on and up, but mainly for the small business owner is that cash flow. And then she scaled up with advertising. I mean, you.

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Revenue Sales Sales Small Business 59

Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Software Marketing 52