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"Marketing Professionals: A Practical Career Guide includes interviews with marketing professionals. This book covers the following job areas in marketing: Digital marketing, SEO (search engine optimization) and web analytics, Social media marketing, Graphic design, Brand management, Product marketing"--
Praise for 60-Minute Brand Strategist "A fresh take on the wisdom of putting brand strategy at the heart of corporate strategy. Brilliant insights for a fast-moving world." —Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry "Idris Mootee paints a sharp, comprehensive, and finely articulated analysis of the potential of meaningful brands in the 21st century's cultural scenario and business landscape. The result is a smart manual that reminds you and your company how to build relevant, authentic, sustainable, and successful brands in an evolving society." —Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo Inc. "Idris's book teaches us how to engage today's increasingly cynical consumers on a deeper emotional level to build real equity and leadership. He demonstrates how to break out of the box and connect business strategy to brand strategy, and how the right brand story never really ends!" —Blair Christie, SVP and CMO, Cisco Systems, Inc. "It's rare to find a book that's both inspiring and practical but Idris nailed it! He has crafted the ultimate guide to brand building in the connected world with visual clarity and thought-provoking strategy." —Eric Ryan, cofounder, Method Products, Inc. This book is about one thing only: branding. Period. In this economy ruled by ideas, the only sustainable form of leadership is brand leadership. 60-Minute Brand Strategist offers a fast-paced, field-tested view of how branding decisions happen in the context of business strategy, not just in marketing communications. With a combi-nation of perspectives from business strategy, customer experience, and even anthropology, this new and updated edition outlines the challenges traditional branding faces in a hyper-connected world. This essential handbook of brand marketing offers an encyclopedia of do's and don'ts, including new case studies of how these concepts are being used by the world's most successful and valuable brands. 60-Minute Brand Strategist is your battle plan, filled with powerful branding tools and techniques to win your customers' hearts and defeat the competition.
Marketing Your Services You may be one of the best doctors, consultants, accountants, caterers, or investment advisors around, but when it comes to marketing your service, you may also be the first one to admit, "I don’t know what to do." Now, here’s a book that shows you, step by step, how to market your services—painlessly, confidently, profitably. Marketing Your Services shows you: How to define and promote your services to the right market How to differentiate your business from other similar businesses How to price and package your services How to turn qualified prospects into customers and build long-term relationships with clients "This is the best book I have seen about Marketing—making your mark in a way that hits the mark. You will be provoked, persuaded, and pleased by this guidebook for painless marketing mastery." —Chip R. Bell Author, Service Wisdom "Simply put, this is the most useful book on marketing for service firms I know of. It is also the best written. Read it." —Clay Carr Author, Front-Line Customer Service "An excellent guide to the marketing maze for any small business that wants to get a firm handle on just what service they provide, and learn how to enjoy making money doing it." —Martin T. Cannon Director, Paper Product Development The Procter & Gamble Company
Get Clients Now empowers readers with practical, proven strategies for choosing the right marketing tactics for their situation and personality, diagnosing exactly what's missing in their marketing and fixing it, and replacing unproductive cold calling with the power of relationship marketing Filled with hundreds of tool and techniques, as well as a powerful 28-day plan that enables readers to energise their marketing efforts and dramatically increase their client base, the second edition contains up-to-the-minute strategies for relationship-based marketing in the Internet age. Key features Features a foreword by Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerilla Marketing series, who also has this to say: Get Clients Now not only tells you the absolute truth about landing new clients, but also can transform you from a marketing amateur into a marketing genius Contains all new material on how to use the latest Internet marketing techniques like ezines, search engine optimisation, and blogging...and much more Packed with over 100 tactics, tools, and foolproof recipes customizable for any professional service business A popular speaker and seminar leader, C.J. has presented hundreds of programs on relationship marketing, fearless self-promotion, and entrepreneurial success to corporate clients, professional associations, and small businesses
Marketing Fundamentals for Future Professionals offers concise yet comprehensive coverage of the language and theory of marketing and shows how marketing principles can be used in both personal and professional life. Modeled on practice-oriented handbooks, this easily adaptable text explains how marketing principles are fundamental to business and become life skills relevant to careers and relationships. Each chapter opens with an explanation of why students need to understand and master the content and how it can help them. Students learn about consumer behavior, segmentation and targeting, positioning, and product development and management. The book also discusses branding, services, promotional theory, personal selling, and strategic marketing. The second edition has been thoroughly updated, including current examples from the field, and incorporates invaluable feedback from students. Marketing Fundamentals for Future Professionals is theoretically grounded yet highly practical. It is well suited to undergraduate business courses and is especially helpful for anyone looking for a solid foundation in the marketing discipline regardless of where they are in their careers.
Markets are changing at a rapid speed. Industry boundaries are blurring. Customers are getting increasingly sophisticated and demanding. How do these phenomena impact upon strategic marketing thinking?This book focuses on these challenges and provides CEOs and senior executives with managerially relevant frameworks and strategic perspectives on marketing. It complements marketing courses leading MBA schools teach, delivering the latest in strategic marketing thinking. What you're going to get is not a collection of sleight-of-hand tricks or mumbo-jumbo incantations. This book will help you gain the core knowledge you need to understand and apply advanced techniques of strategic marketing, including developing strategic positioning, managing brands, selecting pricing strategies, planning the marketing mix and promoting customer adoptions. This book also specifically addresses the challenges associated with launching innovative new products and technologies. It allows executives to understand the uncertainties and try to minimize them. And how understanding consumer behavior and adoption patterns can be critical to commercial success. In fact, this book is the shortcut to marketing mastery for those steering towards the fast track. This book not only benefits executives across the organization (in engineering, finance, product development, operations, sales and other areas), it also provides a common marketing language and understanding, that greatly facilitates the marketing strategy development process and is an excellent guide to a comprehensive overhaul of an organization's marketing strategy.
Do you want to be a leader? Or, do you want more leaders on your network marketing team? The strength of your network marketing business is measured in leaders - not in the number of distributors. Leaders are the long-term foundation of your business. Everyone says they want to have more leaders, but how? How does one find leaders? How does one create leaders? What are the things we need to teach ordinary distributors to do in order to become leaders? Successful leaders have a plan. They want to duplicate themselves as leaders. This plan doesn’t happen by accident. Follow this plan. Instead of wishing and hoping for leaders, this book will give you the step-by-step activities to actually create leaders. Yes, there is a plan for building leaders and it is simple to follow. Discover how to give ordinary distributors a leadership test to determine if they are ready to enter the path of leadership. Then, learn how to start their training process with the biggest leadership lesson of all: problems. When you have an organization of leaders, network marketing gets easier. Instead of spending the day with repetitive activities with distributors, you will enjoy the free time this business offers. Spend the time to build and create leaders, and then you will have the freedom to visit the beaches of the world. This is the perfect book to lend to a new distributor who wants to build a long-term MLM business, and would like to know exactly how to build it. Creating network marketing leaders should be the focus of every business-builder. Order your copy now!
Magnus Mandalora never planned to go out into the big, wide world. He thought he'd live out his life in his homely little village, happily cooking and eating pflugberry pies. But fate had other ideas. Before he knows it, Magnus has embarked on an incredible adventure. He discovers a world full of marvels and wonder, surprises and delights. But it's also a world of perils and danger. As Magnus finds himself right in the middle of a long-running war between the fair and noble Cherines and the vile and despicable Glurgs, he faces challenges beyond anything he could have imagined.
Part of the theory about predicting the direction of technology in this book builds upon work done by Clayton Christensen, a professor of business at Harvard University. Christensen has written many books about how multinational corporations are affected by a topic called "disruptive technology."
Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Network Marketing Professionals The Interactive Edition offers a cohesive approach to his principle-centered philosophy for becoming a highly effective network marketing professional. Within this enhanced edition, you’ll get exclusive integrated multimedia, real-world examples of current, successful networkers, and the step-by-step direction for applying his time-tested habits. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Network Marketing Professionals The Interactive Edition is the complete guide to becoming a more success professional in the 21st century.
