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Marketing Operations Defined for Wikipedia, Part I

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The MO function enables the marketing organization to shift from being viewed as a cost center and to operate more like a business, with formalized best practices, processes, infrastructure, and reporting. The 2006 IDC CMO Technology Benchmark Study found that the headcount allocated to MO was about 2.5%.

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10 Top Business Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn from Amazon

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When Amazon launched Prime in 2005, it was an unproven concept that many thought would end in failure. Before the cloud technology infrastructure platform launched publicly in 2006, it was first a way for internal teams to stop reinventing the wheel when they set out to build a new product.