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Bitcoin Price to Reach $6,000 in 2018, Predicts Wall Street Strategist

Bitcoin Price to Reach $6,000 in 2018, Predicts Wall Street Strategist

The bitcoin price pulled back from its all-time high this weekend, weighed down by a bitcoin cash price surge and disagreements over the SegWit2x scaling proposal.

Bitcoin Price Chart from Coinbase

However, Wall Street strategist Tom Lee believes that the long-term prospects of the bitcoin price remain quite promising. As CNBC reports, Lee–who co-founded Fundstrat Global Advisors and is bearish on the outlook for the stock market–wrote a note to clients establishing a mid-2018 bitcoin price target of $6,000. He also forecasts that it could rise as high as $25,000 by 2022.

Bitcoin Price to Reach $6,000 in 2018

He says several factors will fuel bitcoin’s continued rise to $6,000,  including a 50% increase public adoption of bitcoin as a store of value and mainstream financial investments in cryptocurrency:

We see bitcoin as gaining from institutional sponsorship, improving transaction platforms and ultimately, greater public adoption.

Pointing to LedgerX and CBOE Holdings, which have both receive regulatory approval, Lee says the availability of cryptocurrency options and futures trading will increase overall bitcoin transaction volume.

Central Banks Could Acquire Bitcoin

Lee’s comments echo a recent Goldman Sachs note, which advised that it is “getting harder” for institutional investors to ignore cryptocurrencies. He adds that even central banks may begin acquiring bitcoin if it reaches a market cap of $500 billion, which will happen if the bitcoin price reaches about $30,000.

“While one may say this is preposterous to say central banks would own bitcoin — we believe that Central banks would view crypto currencies differently if Bitcoin’s aggregate value exceeded $500 billion

That said, Lee anticipates short-term volatility for the bitcoin price heading into late August of this year.

“Short-term traders should be prepared for another volatile consolidation period heading into late August given the XBT is nearing our next resistance levels with daily/short-term momentum becoming overbought.

Other Bitcoin Price Forecasts

A number of financial analysts have issued bitcoin price forecasts. Sheba Jafari, a chief technical analyst at Goldman Sachs, believes the bitcoin price will near $5,000 but crash as low as $2,221 as its fifth wave ends. Stock researcher Ronnie Moas believes bitcoin will beat Lee’s target and cross $7,500 in 2018, and one Harvard academic believes a unique application of Moore’s Law could result in bitcoin breaking through $100,000 in 2021.

Posted by Josiah Wilmoth on Bitcoin Price News

Josiah lives in rural North Carolina with his wife and son. He is a full-time freelance writer and a former ancient and medieval literature teacher. Email him directly at josiahwilmoth(at)gmail.com.

Now I want to introduce you to the BitClub Network

Most people have heard of Bitcoin but don't really understand what it is.

The most important thing to understand is that there are people making millions of dollars every month mining Bitcoin .

There is now a new company called Bit Club Network that let's anyone get involved in Bitcoin mining.

You don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to buy millions in equipment and you don't have to set up anything.

You buy a share of one of the mining pools and you get paid every day. It's that simple.

Everybody wants a business that pays them everyday residually.

Not only do we have it here, but we also get paid to share it with everyone we know.

Check out the videos etc. and get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Millions of people will be joining from around the world, you're hearing about it first.

Don't miss out, click HERE to get more information.

Regards

Ida Mae Boyd HoneyBeeHive 609-641-6594 SKYPE: imboyd681

    Joan Beaulieu Markethive Alpha Founder https://markethive.com/joanbeaulieu

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Bitcoin Continues Its Surge, Moving The Market To New Highs

  Bitcoin Continues Its Surge, Moving The Market To New Highs

Bitcoin continued to surge on Monday, reaching a $4,252.65 price by Noon, according to coinmarketcap.com. The crypto leader gained 5.5 points in the last 24 hours, delivering a $70.195 billion market cap. Bitcoin has more than quadrupled its value for the year and gained about 50 percent in August.

Surpassing $70 billion marks an event the cryptocurrency community has been anticipating for years: bitcoin now has a greater total valuation than payment-processing behemoth PayPal.

Bitcoin Leads The Market

Bitcoin's 24-hour performance surpassed that of Ethereum, which rose 0.32 points, and Ripple, which lost 2.06 points. Fifth place IOTA, with a market cap of $2.473 billion, was the only top 10 crypto to post a higher gain than bitcoin, jumping 18.09 points in the 24-hour period. Seven of the top 10 cryptos lost value during the period.

For the first time since late July, bitcoin’s market valuation comprised more than 50% of the entire cryptocurrency market, accounting for 50.57% of the market, followed by Ethereum at 20.37%

Veteran stock researcher Ronnie Moas raised his price target on bitcoin Monday by $2,500 following the weekend price surge, according to CNBC.

Moas, the founder of Standpoint Research, said the floodgates are opening for millions of dollars in hedge funds and deep-pocketed individuals. Moas laid out his initial views in early July, issuing a report in August where he targeted the price target at $5,000 next year.

Moas Now Projects $7,500 Price

Moas now expects the price to climb nearly 80 percent from the weekend’s price to $7,500. He further expects the price to surge to $50,000 in 2027, marking a 28 percent annual compounded growth rate.

He expects digital currencies to become part of and "asset allocation models" and "strategic reserves". He added that people in foreign countries will pursue digital currencies as a more stable alternative to national currencies.

Also read: Bitcoin price sustains momentum, moving closer to $4,200 as demand surges

Various Factors Fuel The Growth

Various factors are fueling bitcoin's continuous rise.

Brian Kelly, a CNBC contributor and head of BKCM, which operates a digital asset strategy, noted that rising tension between the U.S and North Korea is also resulting in an increase in demand towards bitcoin, amidst intensified equity market sell-off.

As Kelly and others have noted, an increasing number of investors and professional traders are beginning to shift towards bitcoin from gold as the ultimate safe haven asset. The portability, transferrability and high liquidity of bitcoin have made the cryptocurrency an efficient, portable, secure and highly liquid store of value and a safe haven asset for a wide range of investors.

Moas nonetheless noted that people should understand bitcoin is not regulated, and said his digital currency holdings are spread across five exchanges.

Posted by Lester Coleman on Bitcoin Analysis, Bitcoin Price News, Bitcoin Progress, Ethereum News, News

Lester Coleman is a media relations consultant for the payments and automated retailing industries. He is available for writing and media relations assignments.

Now I want to introduce you to the BitClub

  Most people have heard of Bitcoin but don't really understand what it is.

The most important thing to understand is that there are people making millions of dollars every month mining Bitcoin .

There is now a new company called Bit Club Network that let's anyone get involved in Bitcoin mining.

You don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to buy millions in equipment and you don't have to set up anything.

You buy a share of one of the mining pools and you get paid every day. It's that simple.

Everybody wants a business that pays them everyday residually.

Not only do we have it here, but we also get paid to share it with everyone we know.

Check out the videos etc. and get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Millions of people will be joining from around the world, you're hearing about it first.

Don't miss out, click HERE to get more information.

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Ida Mae Boyd HoneyBeeHive 609-641-6594 SKYPE: imboyd681

Joan Beaulieu Markethive Alpha Founder https://markethive.com/joanbeaulieu

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Trezor Founder: How a Multi-Million Dollar Bitcoin Startup was formed with $45

  Trezor Founder: How a Multi-Million Dollar Bitcoin Startup was formed with $45

Marek "Slush" Palatinus, the lead architect and CEO of Trezor and its parent company Satoshi Labs, revealed that he started Slush Pool, the oldest mining pool within the bitcoin mining industry, with a $45/month virtual machine. Today, Slush Pool along with Satoshi Labs and Trezor have transformed into multi-million dollar businesses, generating stable streams of revenue and high profit margins.

"I started Slush Pool on $45/Mo virtual machine few years ago and built a multi-million startup on top of it. Not possible today," said Slush.

Over the past few years, billions of dollars were invested in bitcoin and block chain startups by venture capital firms, angel investors, technology conglomerates and financial institutions. Some companies such as Coin base, Gemini, Bitfinex and Block chain have become massively successful businesses, with Coin base becoming the first unicorn startup within the bitcoin industry with its latest $100 million funding round that increased the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion.

However, many innovative and unique companies, applications and platforms such as Change Tip and Lawnmower failed to secure active user bases, stable revenue streams and record profits for their investors. Startups like Change Tip were ultimately acqui-hired by multi-billion dollar technology companies including AirBnb and Lawnmower, which once allowed users to save cash change in bitcoin, rebranded to more applicable platforms.

Lawnmower for instance, is now a block chain assets portfolio management tool, targeting professional traders and portfolio managers looking to expose themselves to a new asset class and invest in bitcoin and Ethereum. Hence, despite the exponential growth rate of bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market and alluring opportunities, it was difficult for companies like Trezor, Slush Pool and Satoshi Labs to make it through the bitcoin industry’s early stages. But, companies that were successful in securing their brand and presence in the industry have now become successful companies. Trezor for instance, has experienced an abrupt surge in demand throughout the past two years that in some months, the company was not able to address the growing demand from its clients.

In February of this year, the Trezor team announced:

"With much regret, Satoshi Labs would like to inform you that due to the exceedingly high and unanticipated demand associated with the increase in bitcoin value, our stock at TREZOR Shop has been depleted. We would like to sincerely apologize for this inadequate foresight related to the development of bitcoin value. Production plans have been fixed and this situation should not occur in the future again."

An important takeaway from Satoshi Labs and Slush’s journey since 2013 future entrepreneurs and potential investors must acknowledge that it has become virtually impossible to create or establish companies within the bitcoin and cryptocurrency industries with limited resources. Companies like Coin base and Block chain are aggressively expanding globally with hundreds of millions of dollars in capital and startups like Trezor and Ledger have already established strong presence in the bitcoin hardware wallet market.

For the majority of investors and entrepreneurs, the abovementioned issue can be considered as an advantage as it means that the bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets have significantly matured within a span of years.

Posted by Joseph Young in Bitcoin Analysis, Bitcoin Companies, News

Now I want to introduce you to the BitClub

Most people have heard of Bitcoin but don't really understand what it is.

The most important thing to understand is that there are people making millions of dollars every month mining Bitcoin .

There is now a new company called Bit Club Network that let's anyone get involved in Bitcoin mining.

You don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to buy millions in equipment and you don't have to set up anything.

You buy a share of one of the mining pools and you get paid every day. It's that simple.

Everybody wants a business that pays them everyday residually.

Not only do we have it here, but we also get paid to share it with everyone we know.

Check out the videos etc. and get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Millions of people will be joining from around the world, you're hearing about it first.

Don't miss out, click HERE to get more information.

Regards

Ida Mae Boyd HoneyBeeHive 609-641-6594 SKYPE: imboyd681

Joan Beaulieu Markethive Alpha Founder https://markethive.com/joanbeaulieu

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AT&T and American Airlines Accept Bitcoin Voucher

AT&T and American Airlines Accept Bitcoin Voucher

Bitcoin is gaining such prominence in value and adoption that it's making major online brands sit up and take notice.

Yesterday, bitcoin's price soared through the $3,400 mark, zeroing in on the $3,500 milestone.

With ethereum steadily climbing to $300, the market cap exceeded that of $120 billion for the first time. It has since slipped back down to $118 billion.

There are, of course, already plenty of major brands that accept bitcoin as a form of payment: Starbucks, Subway, Dell, Expedia, Overstock.com and Microsoft.

Yet, what about the other major brands?

To see what others thought of bitcoin, the team behind Coingeek undertook an experiment. Their aim was to persuade twenty of the top online retail brands to accept the digital currency for payments.

They did this by sending each of the financial director’s $100 worth of bitcoin via a QR code.

The companies they chose included: Alibaba, Amazon, Tesco, Staples, Uber, McDonalds, Netflix, Airbnb, American Airlines, LVMH, AT&T, CVS Health, Tesla, Apple, FedEx, John Lewis PLC, Spotify, BMW and Red Bull.

At the time, Laurence Tosi from Airbnb was the only one to take up the free bitcoin. Now, though, he has also been joined by the likes of John J. Stephen from AT&T and Derek Kerr from American Airlines who have redeemed their vouchers,

Whether or not this means that the companies will start accepting the digital currency as a form of payment remains to be seen. Aside from getting some free bitcoins, it may show their interest in trying something new.

This article was Written by Rebecca Campbell on 09/08/2017 and posted on Cryptocoins News

Now I want to introduce you to the BitClub

  Most people have heard of Bitcoin but don't really understand what it is.

The most important thing to understand is that there are people making millions of dollars every month mining Bitcoin .

There is now a new company called Bit Club Network that let's anyone get involved in Bitcoin mining.

You don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to buy millions in equipment and you don't have to set up anything.

You buy a share of one of the mining pools and you get paid every day. It's that simple.

Everybody wants a business that pays them everyday residually.

Not only do we have it here, but we also get paid to share it with everyone we know.

Check out the videos etc. and get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Millions of people will be joining from around the world, you're hearing about it first.

Don't miss out, click HERE to get more information.

Regards

Ida Mae Boyd HoneyBeeHive 609-641-6594 SKYPE: imboyd681

Joan Beaulieu Markethive Alpha Founder https://markethive.com/joanbeaulieu

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What Is Digital Currency-How Does It Work

What Is Digital Currency-How Does It Work

What is digital currency? It is defined as: money stored and transferred in digital form. Sounds simple enough, but how does it all work?

This type of currency is thought to be good to use for making purchases on the internet because if it works the way it was meant to, transactions should be rather anonymous and untraceable back to the payer or user.

This means that hackers would no longer be able to gather personal information from people who use their credit cards to make online purchases. This would obviously decrease the number of stolen identities that happen every day.

To help you understand more of, "what is digital currency?" I have done quite a bit of research on the subject and have found that there are several different types out there, each with its own unique qualities.

Here are just a few with their descriptions following:

1. Digital Gold Currency – This type is backed by gold stored in vaults. The gold provides an extra measure of security and if you hold this type of currency, you could possibly directly exchange it for solid gold bullion.

2. Centralized Currency Systems – these are like PayPal and these companies allow you to send money all over the world as long as you have money in the account. For some services provided by these types of companies, you get charged a fee on the receivers’ end of the transaction.

3. Decentralized Currency Systems – Like Bitcoin are all based on cryptography and/or trust networks. Also called Hard Electronic Currency, it is intended to be more like using cash to make your transaction but your transaction is non-refundable once made. This type of system only works in one direction.

The E-cash idea has evolved along with the evolution of the Internet. People just do not feel comfortable with giving their personal credit card information over the Internet when making a purchase.

Too many bad things can happen like identity theft. No one wants their identity stolen.

So, many companies have attempted to create this type of payment or monetary system to minimize the risks of shopping online.

Many countries have successfully created systems for "in-house" use such as Hong Kong's Octopus card. This card works just like a sort of debit card where the user loads money onto the card and then all the money is deposited into a bank. They can then use the card for anything they need to use it for.

Some countries are working on or have systems that allow the user to transfer money through mobile devices. I think this is somewhat like what Chase lets their customers do. Their customers can take a picture of their check, front and back, with their phone and make their deposit electronically.

I do hope that this gives you some idea of what is digital currency and how it is attempting to take its place in the world of e-commerce. There may be a little more to it than I could describe in just one small article but I think you can get a good idea.

Now I want to introduce you to the BitClub

Most people have heard of Bitcoin but don't really understand what it is.

The most important thing to understand is that there are people making millions of dollars every month mining Bitcoin .

There is now a new company called Bit Club Network that let's anyone get involved in Bitcoin mining.

You don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to buy millions in equipment and you don't have to set up anything.

You buy a share of one of the mining pools and you get paid every day. It's that simple.

Everybody wants a business that pays them everyday residually.

Not only do we have it here, but we also get paid to share it with everyone we know.

Check out the videos etc. and get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Millions of people will be joining from around the world, you're hearing about it first.

Don't miss out, click HERE to get more information.

Regards

Ida Mae Boyd HoneyBeeHive 609-641-6594 SKYPE: imboyd681

Joan Beaulieu Markethive Alpha Founder https://markethive.com/joanbeaulieu

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Instagram Expands To Over 500 Mil-Can it save Facebook?

Why is this happening? Reason: Most people on the go are highly visual and don't tend to read much anymore. "A Picture Says A Thousand Words" as the old saying goes, so maybe there is something to keeping it short and sweet and visual. 

"Facebook has spread its tentacles into the messaging boom after building the world's most popular social network, buying Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock in 2012. Facebook also owns two other of the world's most popular apps: WhatsApp, which it bought for billions and has 1 billion users, and its homegrown app, Facebook Messenger, which hit 900 million users in April.

"Facebook itself captures enormous amounts of people’s attention on their mobile devices, and that’s hugely powerful. But there will always be alternatives either in broad use or in use by demographic or geographic segments," said Jan Dawson, chief analyst with Jackdaw Research.

EMarketer forecast for Instagram mobile adverting revenue. (Photo: EMarketer)

Instagram, for example, is popular with teens.

"Facebook has arguably been deploying the candy bar strategy — own as many of the brands on the shelf as possible to maximize your market share," Dawson said.

The exception: Snapchat, the mobile app popular with young people which Facebook tried to buy twice.

"It remains to be seen how important that miss will be, but it’s already clear that it’s a really important competitor to Facebook for people’s time and attention, and for companies’ ad dollars," Dawson said.

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst Robert Peck says Instagram's overall growth is impressive but the numbers suggest growth in the U.S. is slowing as competition from Snapchat escalates.

"We note that most, if not all, of the (monthly active user) growth is coming from international markets. In fact, we estimate the U.S. market likely grew in a range of 0 to 18% on an annualized basis in the most recent 9 month period," Peck wrote in a research report on Tuesday.

Instagram targets small business ad revenue

The jump in Instagram users — and their advertising-pleasing demographics — has helped Facebook bill Instagram as a buy for marketers looking to increase awareness and spur sales. Evidence of its early commercial promise: Instagram already has more than 200,000 advertisers. Analysts say Instagram's nascent advertising business is growing rapidly.

Research firm eMarketer expects Instagram's global mobile ad revenue to reach $1.53 billion this year and more than $5 billion by 2018. Analysts say Instagram's contributions are already being felt in Facebook financial results even though the giant social network does not break those out.

"What is certain is that Instagram has been a big factor in Facebook’s recent repeated blowing out of its financial results, and its impressive rate of revenue growth in particular," Dawson said."

Can Instagram save Facebook? With Facebook trending down and Instagram trending up maybe it will pick up the loss of Facebook. Pretty smart move Facebook! 

Thanks for reading, Dr. Raymond Jewell

PS: Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist specializing in the Small and Home Based Business Marketplace. He is a Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. Dr. Jewell is a professional Network Marketer and represents several companies successfully. He can be reached through Markethive.

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Customer Centric Ideas for Network Marketing...Why the MLM Philosophy Sucks

Let's Face it…MLM Philosophy Sucks!

Have you ever wondered what it takes to reach the top of a network marketing company and be able to stay there for years on end? The Answer is a customer centric approach. 

Network Marketing has been growing so rapidly over the years that the culture within has forgotten what is truly important to this type of business. I'll give you hint it – This has nothing to do with how many distributors you have on your team..

For years people have told me to focus on getting other distributors for my network marketing business. That is what I did…that is what I focused on for so long. Over time, I realized that distributors come and go…It's part of the business.. making this industry a constant uphill battle to reach the top of an organization. As distributors, we tend to buy overpriced products on autoship that we do not use and are not passionate about at all. 

Most of the products I have tried in the past are nothing but a hoax. They never did what they were promoted to do. However, every once in a while a new network marketing company arrives with reputable products that are sold in bulk under wholesale giving the distributor resell rights for a return profit and leverage in the market place to run a successful business that is always in the "Green". 

This image above is the typical culture that exists when anyone thinks of Network Marketing or MLM opportunities. How many times have you and your downline made jokes about this? This is the exact type of thinking that drives distributors away from a business opportunity. 

 Those who focus on distributor recruitment are doomed to fail!

 The number one goal of every type of business since the beginning of time has been customer acquisition. The ability to acquire and retain customers throughout the lifespan of the business. The vision my group of network marketers has is to have more customers than distributors at all times. This cam be done very easily if you work with the right company as we are doing right now. We buy into the company with a business builder pack for $499. This qualifies everyone at the Ruby level and allows us to effortlessly buy and sell our products in bulk on a montly basis while continuing to have a positive cash flow. 

Customer Centric Ideas For Network Marketing

Our distributor team is individually gaining 16 potential customers every month using this method. What does this mean…Volume…lots of Volume…which means faster rank advancements in the company.

As we sell product to our customer base, we speak with our warm market of other network marketers and ask them if they would be interested in this new approach to work as a united team in the industry building this customer centric business model. We work together to build our downlines deep, not wide. So what drives our team to success? Well, first thing is "Hard Work". 

Hard work is required no matter what you do in life to reach success. We run a business; therefore we all work and we work we the other people who work too to help them grow and earn more money. Those who do nothing get left in the dust. We reward people who work by helping them build their team. Network marketing is all about helping other business partners succeed with their own business as we provide the highest level of service to our regular customers. 

Have you been involved in Network Marketing before?

How long have you been involved in the industry?

How many companies have you been with? 

Are you open to looking at any other good business opportunities the focus on a customer centric approach?

Are you open to learning a whole new way to build a business that will keep your autoship reselling for a profit while recruiting hard working distributors to join the team? 

If your answer is "yes" to the last two questions then I would like to test your work ethic and see if you would be a good qualifing fit for the team. 

Join me at Markethive – Market Network for Entrepreneurs. Set up your account as an Alpha Trailblazer (free), then set up your profile page. Once that is done I will connect with you through social media (facebook, linkedin etc.) to exchange phone numbers to discuss our business opportunity and ask you to join the business group within Markethive. We must go through some steps just like a job interview to find those individuals who really qualify. 

We are real business people who want to make sure that the people who join our business will be "All In" with this business which requires the purchase of the business builder pack within our organization. You are going to need Markethive to promote your business online. There is no other Inbound Marketing Platform on the internet as powerful as this one. And it costs nothing…The tools inside are free…The top competitor to Markethive is Pardot or Marketo which costs $1000's a month to use..

Benefits of Joining Our Business at the Business Builder Level:

There are several reasons why we do this. The main reason is you as a distributor on our team will be ranked as a "Ruby" with our company which will qualify you for higher commissions meaning you will advance with the company very quickly. You will also have enough product on hand to resell for profit and acquire 16 new customers each and every month.

Additional perks: You will be given a network marketing recruiting system FREE. I will waive your purchase fees. You will always have other network marketers to contact and ask if they are interested at looking at this new business movement that is directing the network marketing culture into a customer centric culture.  We are also willing to give those individuals who purchase the business builder pack ($499); at the Ruby level, the affiliate rank in markethive as an Alpha Entrepreneur!

The Alpha Entrepreneur Affiliate Rank is valued at $5000! this is how commited we are to your success. 

I want to make sure that the same level of support I give my customers is also applied to my business partners. This will always be the case as long everyone is working hard and putting in the effort to build their business. 

For myself and team, we look forward to seeing you be a part of this customer centric movement! 

Sincerly, 

Steven Cavan

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Joan Beaulieu

Markethive Alpha Founder- Legacy Member 

Ruby Team Leader 

Skype: joanbeaulieu2

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The Ultimate Marketing Machine

The Ultimate Marketing Machine

A Strategy & Execution Case

In the past decade, what marketers do to engage customers has changed almost beyond recognition. With the possible exception of information technology, we can’t think of another discipline that has evolved so quickly. Tools and strategies that were cutting-edge just a few years ago are fast becoming obsolete, and new approaches are appearing every day.

Yet in most companies the organizational structure of the marketing function hasn’t changed since the practice of brand management emerged, more than 40 years ago. Hidebound hierarchies from another era are still commonplace.

Marketers understand that their organizations need an overhaul, and many chief marketing officers are tearing up their org charts. But in our research and our work with hundreds of global marketing organizations, we’ve found that those CMOs are struggling with how to draw the new chart. What does the ideal structure look like? Our answer is that this is the wrong question. A simple blueprint does not exist.

Marketing leaders instead must ask, “What values and goals guide our brand strategy, what capabilities drive marketing excellence, and what structures and ways of working will support them?” Any Structure must follow strategy—not the other way around.

To understand what separates the strategies and structures of superior marketing organizations from the rest, EffectiveBrands (now Millward Brown Vermeer)—in partnership with the Association of National Advertisers, the World Federation of Advertisers, Spencer Stuart, Forbes, MetrixLab, and Adobe—initiated Marketing2020, which to our knowledge is the most comprehensive marketing leadership study ever undertaken. Co-author Keith Weed, the CMO of Unilever, is the chairman of the initiative’s advisory board. Todate the study has included in-depth qualitative interviews with more than 350 CEOs, CMOs, and agency heads, and over a dozen CMO roundtables in cities worldwide. We also conducted online quantitative surveys of 10,000-plus marketers from 92 countries. The surveys encompassed more than 80 questions focusing on marketers’ data analytics capabilities, brand strategy, cross-functional and global interactions, and employee training.

We divided the survey respondents into two groups, overperformers, and underperformers, on the basis of their companies’ three-year revenue growth relative to their competitors’. We then compared those two groups’ strategies, structures, and capabilities. Some of what we found should come as no surprise: Companies that are sophisticated in their use of data grow faster, for instance. Nevertheless, the research shed new light on the constellation of brand attributes required for superior marketing performance and on the nature of the organizations that achieve it. It’s clear that “marketing” is no longer a discrete entity (and woe to the company whose marketing is still siloed) but now extends throughout the firm, tapping virtually every function. And while the titles, roles, and responsibilities of marketing leaders vary widely among companies and industries, the challenges they face—and what they must do to succeed—are deeply similar.

Highlights from the Survey

    Use of Data Distinguishes the Leading Brands

% of respondents who said that their organization leveraged all data and analytics to improve marketing effectiveness

          Purpose-Based Positioning Boosts Sales

% of respondents who said that their organization’s revenue growth was higher than competitors’

          Connecting to Corporate Strategy

% of respondents who said that in their organization marketing is regarded as a strategic partner for business growth

        Inspiring Workers to Get Results

% of respondents who said their company ensures that all employees are fully engaged with the brand purpose

          Focusing on the Right Metrics

% of respondents who said that their brand’s key performance indicators are clearly linked to overall business performance

      

    Building Needed Capabilities

% of respondents who said that their organization’s training program was tailored to the specific needs of their business

    Winning Characteristics

The framework that follows describes the broad traits of high-performing organizations, as well as specific drivers of organizational effectiveness. Let’s look first at the shared principles of high performers’ marketing approaches.

Big data, deep insights.

Marketers today are awash in customer data, and most are finding narrow ways to use that information—to, say, improve the targeting of messages. Knowing what an individual consumer is doing where and when is now table stakes. High performers in our study are distinguished by their ability to integrate data on what consumers are doing with knowledge of why they’re doing it, which yields new insights into consumers’ needs and how to best meet them. These marketers understand consumers’ basic drives—such as the desire to achieve, to find a partner, and to nurture a child—motivations we call “universal human truths.”

The Nike+ suite of personal fitness products and services, for instance, combines a deep understanding of what makes athletes tick with troves of data. Nike+ incorporates sensor technologies embedded in running shoes and wearable devices that connect with the web, apps for tablets and smartphones, training programs, and social networks. In addition to tracking running routes and times, Nike+ provides motivational feedback and links users to communities of friends, like-minded athletes, and even coaches. Users receive personalized coaching programs that monitor their progress. An aspiring first-time half-marathon runner, say, and a seasoned runner rebounding from an injury will receive very different coaching. People are rewarded for good performance, can post their accomplishments on social media, and can compare their performance with—and learn from—others in the Nike+ community.

Purposeful positioning.

Top brands excel at delivering all three manifestations of brand purpose—functional benefits, or the job the customer buys the brand to do (think of the pick-me-up Starbucks coffee provides); emotional benefits, or how it satisfies a customer’s emotional needs (drinking coffee is a social occasion); and societal benefits, such as sustainability (when coffee is sourced through fair trade). Consider the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, which defines a set of guiding principles for sustainable growth that emphasize improving health, reducing environmental impact, and enhancing livelihoods. The plan lies at the heart of all Unilever’s brand strategies, as well as its employee and operational strategies.

In addition to engaging customers and inspiring employees, a powerful and clear brand purpose improves alignment throughout the organization and ensures consistent messaging across touchpoints. AkzoNobel’s Dulux, one of the world’s leading paint brands, offers a case in point. In 2006, AkzoNobel was operating a heavily decentralized business structured around local markets, with each local business setting its own brand and business goals and developing its own marketing mix. Not surprisingly, the outcome was inconsistent brand positioning and results; Dulux soared in some markets and floundered in others. In 2008, Dulux’s new global brand team pursued a sweeping program to understand how people perceived the brand across markets, paint’s purpose in their lives, and the human truths that inspired people to color their environments. From China, to India, to the UK, to Brazil, a consistent theme emerged: The colors around us powerfully influence how we feel. Dulux wasn’t selling cans of paint; it was selling “tins of optimism.” This new definition of Dulux’s brand purpose led to a marketing campaign, “Let’s Color.” It enlists volunteers, which now include more than 80% of AkzoNobel employees, and donates paint (more than half a million liters so far) to revitalize run-down urban neighborhoods, from the favelas of Rio to the streets of Jodhpur. In addition to aligning the once-decentralized marketing organization, Dulux’s purpose-driven approach has expanded its share in many markets.

Total experience.

Companies are increasingly enhancing the value of their products by creating customer experiences. Some deepen the customer relationship by leveraging what they know about a given customer to personalize offerings. Others focus on the breadth of the relationship by adding touchpoints. Our research shows that high-performing brands do both—providing what we call “total experience.” In fact, we believe that the most important marketing metric will soon change from “share of wallet” or “share of voice” to “share of experience.”

McCormick, the spices and flavorings firm, emphasizes both depth and breadth in delivering on its promise to “push the art, science, and passion of flavor.” It creates a consistent experience for consumers across numerous physical and digital touchpoints, such as product packaging, branded content like cookbooks, retail stores, and even an interactive service, FlavorPrint, that learns each customer’s taste preferences and makes tailored recipe recommendations. FlavorPrint does for recipes what Netflix has done for movies; its algorithm distills each recipe into a unique flavor profile, which can be matched to a consumer’s taste-preference profile. FlavorPrint can then generate customized e-mails, shopping lists, and recipes optimized for tablets and mobile devices.

Organizing for Growth

Marketing has become too important to be left just to the marketers in a company. We say this not to disparage marketers but to underscore how holistic marketing now is. To deliver a seamless experience, one informed by data and imbued with brand purpose, all employees in the company, from store clerks and phone center reps to IT specialists and the marketing team itself, must share a common vision.

Our research has identified five drivers of organizational effectiveness. The leaders of high-performing companies connect marketing to the business strategy and to the rest of the organization; inspire their organizations by engaging all levels with the brand purpose; focus their people on a few key priorities; organize agile, cross-functional teams; and build the internal capabilities needed for success.

Connecting.

In our work with marketing organizations, we have seen case after case of dysfunctional teamwork, suboptimal collaboration, and lack of shared purpose and trust.

Despite cultural and geographic obstacles, our high-performing marketers avoid such breakdowns for the most part. Their leaders excel at linking their departments to general management and other functions. They create a tight relationship with the CEO, making certain that marketing goals support company goals; bridge organizational silos by integrating marketing and other disciplines; and ensure that global, regional, and local marketing teams work interdependently.

Marketing historically has marched to its own drummer, at best unevenly supporting strategy handed down from headquarters and, more commonly, pursuing brand or marketing goals (such as growing brand equity) that were not directly related to the overall business strategy. Today high-performing marketing leaders don’t just align their department’s activities with company strategy; they actively engage in creating it. From 2006 to 2013, our surveys show, marketing’s influence on strategy development increased by 20 percentage points. And when marketing demonstrates that it is fighting for the same business objectives as its peers, trust and communication strengthen across all functions and, as we shall see, enable the collaboration required for high performance.

Another way companies foster connections is by putting marketing and other functions under a single leader. Motorola’s Eduardo Conrado is the senior VP of both marketing and IT. A year after Antonio Lucio was appointed CMO of Visa, he was invited to also lead HR and tighten the alignment between the company’s strategy and how employees were recruited, developed, retained, and rewarded. CoauthCo-author Weed leads communications and sustainability, as well as marketing, at Unilever. And Herschend Family Entertainment, owner of the Harlem Globetrotters and various theme parks, has recently expanded CMO Eric Lent’s role to chief marketing and consumer technology officer.

Marketing has become too important to be left just to the marketers. All employees, from store clerks to IT specialists, must be engaged in it.

Inspiring.

Inspiration is one of the most underused drivers of effective marketing—and one of the most powerful. Our research shows that high-performing marketers are more likely to engage customers and employees with their brand purpose—and that employees in those organizations are more likely to express pride in the brand.

Inspiration strengthens commitment, of course, but when it’s rooted in a respected brand purpose, all employees will be motivated by the same mission. This enhances collaboration and, as more and more employees come into contact with customers, also helps ensure consistent customer experiences. The payoff is that everyone in the company becomes a de facto member of tCo-authoring team.

The key to inspiring the organization is to do internally what marketing does best externally: create irresistible messages and programs that get everyone on board. At Dulux, that involved handing paint and brushes to thousands of employees and setting them loose on neighborhoods around the world. Unilever’s leadership conducts a quarterly live broadcast with most of the company’s 6,500 marketers to celebrate best brand practices and introduce new tools. In addition, Unilever holds a series of globally coordinated and locally delivered internal and external communications events, called Big Moments, to engage employees and opinion leaders companywide directly with the broader purpose of making sustainable living commonplace. Research shows this has led to a significant increase in employee commitment. Nike has a marketing staffer whose sole job is to tell the original Nike story to all new employees.

Inspiration is so important that many companies, Unilever among them, have begun measuring employees’ brand engagement as a key performance indicator. Google does this by assessing employees’ “Googliness” in performance appraisals to determine how fully people embrace the company’s culture and purpose. And Zappos famously offers new hires $3,000 to leave after four weeks, effectively cutting loose anyone who is not inspired by the company’s obsessive customer focus.

Focusing.

When we asked eight global marketing executives in one organization to list their top five marketing objectives, only two goals made it onto everyone’s list. The remainder was a motley assortment of personal or local objectives. Such misalignment, our data show, increases the farther teams are from an organization’s center of power. With marketing activities ever more dispersed across global companies, that risk must be carefully managed.

By a wide margin, respondents in overperforming companies agreed with the statements “Local marketing understands the global strategy” and “Global marketing understands the local marketing reality.” Winning companies were more likely to measure brands’ success against key performance indicators such as revenue growth and profit and to tie incentives at the local level directly to those KPIs. Ironically, almost all companies were meticulous in planning and executing consumer communication campaigns but failed to devote the same care to internal communications about strategy. That’s a dangerous oversight.

Marc Schroeder, the global marketing head for PepsiCo’s Quaker brand, understood the need for internal cohesiveness when he led a cross-regional “marketing council” to develop and communicate the brand’s first global growth strategy. The council defined a purposeful positioning, nailed down the brand’s global objectives, set a prioritized growth agenda, created clear lines of accountability and incentives, and adopted a performance dashboard that tracked industry measures such as market share and revenue growth. The council communicated the strategy through regional and local team meetings, including those with agencies and retail customers worldwide, and hosted a first-ever global brand stewardship event to educate colleagues. As a result of those efforts, all Quaker marketing plans are now explicitly linked to one overall strategy.

Organizing for agility.

Our research consistently shows that organizational structure, roles, and processes are among the toughest leadership challenges—and that the need for clarity about them is consistently underestimated or even ignored.

We have helped design dozens of marketing organizations. Typically we enter the scene after a traditional business consultancy has done preliminary strategy, cost, and head-count analyses, and our role is to work with the CMO to create and implement a new structure, operating model, and capability-building program. Though we believe there is no ideal organizational blueprint, our experience does suggest a set of operational and design principles that any organization can apply.

Today marketing organizations must leverage global scale but also be nimble, able to plan and execute in a matter of weeks or a few months—and, increasingly, instantaneously. Oreo famously took to Twitter during the blackout at the 2013 Super Bowl, reminding consumers, “You can still dunk in the dark,” making the brand a trending topic during one of the world’s biggest sporting events. That the tweet was designed and approved in minutes was no accident; Oreo deliberately organized and empowered its marketing team for the occasion, bringing agency and brand teams together in a “mission control” room and authorizing them to engage with their audience in real time.

Complex matrixed organizational structures—like those captured in traditional, rigid “Christmas tree” org charts—are giving way to networked organizations characterized by flexible roles, fluid responsibilities, and more relaxed sign-off processes designed for speed. The new structures allow leaders to tap talent as needed from across the organization and assemble teams for specific, often short-term, marketing initiatives. The teams may form, execute, and disband in a matter of weeks or months, depending on the task.

New marketing roles.

As companies expand internationally, they inevitably reorganize to better balance the benefits of global scale with the need for local relevance. Our research shows that, as a result, the vast majority of brands are led much more centrally today than they were a few years ago. Companies are removing middle, often regional, layers and creating specialized “centers of excellence” that guide strategy and share best practices while drawing on needed resources wherever, and at whatever level, they exist in the organization. As companies pursue this approach, roles and processes need to be adapted.

Marketing organizations traditionally have been populated by generalists, but particularly with the rise of social and digital marketing, a profusion of new specialist roles—such as digital privacy analysts and native content editors—are emerging. We have found it useful to categorize marketing roles not by title (as the variety seems infinite) but as belonging to one of three broad types: “think” marketers, who apply analytic capabilities to tasks like data mining, media-mix modeling, and ROI optimization; “do” marketers, who develop content and design and lead production; and “feel” marketers, who focus on consumer interaction and engagement in roles from customer service to social media and online communities.

The networked organization.

A broad array of skills and organizational tiers and functions are represented within each category. CMOs and other marketing executives such as chief experience officers and global brand managers increasingly operate as the orchestrators, assembling cross-functional teams from these three classes of talent to tackle initiatives. Orchestrators brief the teams, ensure that they have the capabilities and resources they need, and oversee performance tracking. To populate a team, the orchestrator and team leader draw from marketing and other functions as well as from outside agencies and consulting firms, balancing the mix of think, do, and feel capabilities in accordance with the team’s mission.

Companies are using this model to create task forces for a range of marketing programs, from integrating online and physical retail experiences to introducing new products. When Unilever launched Project Sunlight—a consumer-engagement program connected with its sustainable living initiative—the team drew talent from seven expertise areas. The international cable company Liberty Global uses task forces to optimize the customer experience at key engagement points—such as when customers receive a bill. These teams are led by managers from a variety of marketing and nonmarketing functions, have different durations, and draw from each of the three talent pools in different measure.

The task-force model is both agile and disciplined. It requires a culture in which central leadership is confident that local teams understand the strategy and will collaborate to execute it. This works well only when everyone in the organization is inspired by the brand purpose and is clear about the goals. Google, Nike, Red Bull, and Amazon all embrace this philosophy. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos captured the ethos when he said at a shareholders’ meeting, “We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”

Building capabilities.

As we have shown, the most effective marketers lead by connecting, inspiring, focusing, and organizing for agility. But none of those activities can be fully accomplished, or sustained, without the continual building of capabilities. Our research shows pronounced differences in training between high- and low-performing companies, in terms of both quantity and quality.

At a minimum the marketing staff needs expertise in traditional marketing and communications functions—market research, competitive intelligence, media planning, and so forth. But we’ve seen that sometimes even those basic capabilities are lacking. Courses to onboard new staff and teach targeted skills are just the price of entry. The best marketing organizations, including those at Coca-Cola, Unilever, and the Japanese beauty company Shiseido, have invested in dedicated internal marketing academies to create a single marketing language and way of doing marketing.

Senior managers across the company can benefit from programs for sharing expertise on consumer habits, competitor strategy, and retail dynamics. Virgin, Starbucks, and other corporations have created intensive “immersion” programs for this purpose. Executives at the director level can profit from advanced courses that focus on strategic considerations such as portfolio management and partnering. We find that senior leaders often gain a lot in digital and social media training, as they’re frequently less well versed in those areas than their junior colleagues are. Appreciating this, companies including Unilever and Diageo have taken their senior leaders to Facebook for training. We’ve collaborated with partners at Google, MSN, and AOL to develop similar programs, including “reverse mentoring,” which pairs very senior managers with younger staffers. Even the CMO can benefit from continued, targeted training. Visa’s Antonio Lucio, for instance, hired a digital native to teach him about social media and monitor his progress.

Underperforming marketers, on the other hand, underinvest in training. Their employees receive just over half a day of training a year, on average, while overperformers give people nearly two full days of tailored, practical training by external experts. At first blush, the Marketing2020 study reveals what you might expect: Marketers must leverage customer insight, imbue their brands with a brand purpose, and deliver a rich customer experience. They must connect, inspire, focus, organize, and build, as detailed here. The finding that’s striking—and should serve as both a warning and a call to arms—is that most organizations haven’t been able to put all those pieces together. Our data show that only half of even high-performing organizations excel on some of these capabilities. But that shouldn’t be discouraging; rather, it illuminates where there’s work to do. Regardless of how marketing delivers its messages in the future, the fundamental human motivations that marketers must satisfy won’t change. The challenge now is to create organizations that can truly speak to those needs.

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Why Videos are Outperforming Pictures in Regards to Online Marketing

Why Videos are Outperforming Pictures in Regards to Online Marketing

Videos have always been a high-demand medium for those who are looking to promote their product or service through online channels such as YouTube. However, you may have noticed the growing trend of embedding videos within a website. The same holds true for social media platforms such as Facebook. Why are videos taking the world of digital marketing by storm and what can we expect to see in the months ahead?

  Information and Entertainment

It could be argued that the days of static SEO-rich text are fading away. Still, we all know that quality content can ultimately make the difference between a sale and a missed opportunity. Videos are set to bridge the gap between success and a lack thereof. A recent study by Cisco highlighted that videos are slated to account for no less than 69% of all consumer traffic by 2017 (1). The fact of the matter is that we live in a visually oriented society. Failing to capitalize on this trend could have negative consequences upon your business plan.

The Smartphone Influence

Another factor that is impossible to deny is the fact that we all use our smartphones on a daily basis. From downloading the latest games to watching a streaming broadcast, the days of 4G are now upon us. Very few consumers are willing to enlarge a block of text and read it from beginning to end in order to get a handle on what is being offered. Videos can accommodate this need in a fraction of the time. Any small business that fails to take advantage of this opportunity could soon find itself playing a game of catch-up for years into the future.

The Reach

Content marketing can be a tricky arena. It is difficult to understand what an audience may want and if static text or info graphics are boring, there is no doubt that your sales will suffer as a result. These concerns can be (partially) addressed through the use of video. For example, were you aware that YouTube receives more than 1 billion visitors each month (2)? In the same respect, the average consumer within the United States views at least one video each week. The fact of the matter is that videos can provide access to a massive pool of potential buyers.

The Personal Touch

We should never forget that videos enable us to connect with an audience in ways that would simply be impossible through a static website. Let's imagine that customer has a complaint about a product that they recently purchased. As opposed to sending a lengthy (and formal) email or simply replying to a post, imagine the impact that a personalized video response would have upon the future buying decisions. Additionally, other clients are likely to be very impressed with your ability to go “above and beyond” the norm.

Brand Uniformity

Another great aspect of videos is that they can be embedded across multiple sites. So, you could very well provide an outbound link to your Facebook page, a specific blog or even to YouTube itself. Not only is this a great way to increase your brand recognition, but Google looks favorably upon these actions.

Videos are without a doubt here to stay. Although well-written text and flashy graphics are always good ideas, we can't deny the fact that consumers want to be entertained, engaged and informed. Videos are the best ways to promote your product in a way that is appealing to your growing audience.

Richard Tipsword MarketHive Developer

Sources: 1. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html  

2. http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/en-GB/statistics.html

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