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October 14, 2024

How to streamline your marketing strategy

This is how several seasoned marketing executives are steering their companies' marketing strategy in an ever-changing digital landscape


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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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