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More Than a Brand Steward: The Redefined Role of CMO

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Once held up as a maven of creativity and brand, today’s technologies, customers, and pace of business demand CMOs have a wider handle on a variety of skill sets and a much deeper business acumen in order to move their team from cost to profit centers. This is not a short-term trend either. The short answer is No. How to Get There.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Logistics Upgrades, New Leadership

PYMNTS

This week the big headline generator wasn’t anything that either brand was selling, or doing in service or sales, but instead what a spokesperson said — specifically what they said about the current controversy over Amazon’s place in claiming the consumer’s whole paycheck. Big Plays of the Week: The Digital Brand Reshuffles .

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What Quibi’s Flameout Teaches Us about Behavior Change

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For any brand that promises to entertain, motivation should center on pleasure. That meant it needed viewers to not only discover its brand, download its app, register and begin watching but also to subscribe at either a $5 or $8 monthly payment level. In the FBM, motivation is defined as the reason for action.

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Traditional Bank Stakes Its Future on Daring Digital Strategy

The Financial Brand

The post Traditional Bank Stakes Its Future on Daring Digital Strategy appeared first on The Financial Brand. Community bank goes modern in a big way by pioneering a new core system and partnering with an unusual fintech-powered mobile banking club.

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QSRs Battle For US Sales With Online Delivery And Payments

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Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. Touchscreen self-ordering kiosks, a new mobile pay app, dedicated pickup areas for mobile orders, digital menu boards and, yes, in-store WiFi will make up its digital strategy.

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Alphabet’s New CEO, Millennial Black Friday Spending And Digital Drivers’ Licenses Top This Week’s News

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Merchants would be wise to consider how consumers want to pay, and whether alternative payment methods such as buy now, pay later (BNPL) could help alleviate their holiday financial stresses, according to Nick Kaplan, president of plus-size fashion brand Fashion To Figure. Expedia Leadership Shakeup Shows Power of Travel Industry Disruption.

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Moving Beyond The Limits Of ‘Cash And Dash’ ATMs

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In an interview with Karen Webster, Norbert Knievel, head of Banking Thought Leadership at Diebold Nixdorf , said FIs would do well to reconsider the role of the ATM in an age where cash usage endures even with the continued inroads made with digital commerce. “So

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