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In 2020, the longest period of economic expansion in U.S. history came to a grinding halt. Caught off guard by years of growth and record-breaking profits, architecture, engineering, and construction firms (known collectively as the A/E/C Industry) are now reeling and wondering how long the recession will last and how severe the financial impacts will be. During the Great Recession of 2008-2010, many A/E/C firms made deep and devastating cuts into their Marketing departments. These short-sighted 'cost-saving' measures rippled across the country and caused waves of layoffs of marketing professionals across all job categories and levels of seniority. This type of extreme de-investment in marketing resources hinders a firm's ability to position in the hyper-competitive landscape of a recession. It also increases the likelihood of a loss in market share to competitors who didn't make such cuts. To prevent this from happening again, it is important to take a step back and reflect--to both understand the motivations and perceptions that drive firm financial decisions, as well as to clinically review some of the miss-steps marketing departments make when the 'tide goes out'. The wear and tear of a strong economic expansion can take a toll on our marketing operations and make it difficult to pivot into recession. Any stumbles in our agility send signals to our firm leadership that we may not be up to the task of weathering an economic downturn. This book offers several action steps and strategies to reinforce our marketing operations and improve the agility we so badly need right now.
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Can you market your way out of a recession? Yes you can! By reading this book, among other things, you'll learn how to tap into social media opportunities, how to get on television and into the newspapers, how to e-market and best of all how to keep your business percolating in even the toughest of times. What do we say in our offices? When the going gets tough, the tough start marketing! Is it a coincidence that some of the biggest companies in the world are also the non-stop marketers? Hardly. If you're a businessperson looking to get to that elusive next level, some of the information in this book may help you get there. It's Only a Recession, or Is It? What's All the 'Buzz' about Social Media? Breaking Through Barriers to 'Yes' and Why Price Can Be Irrelevant Is Your Office Crisis-Ready? Harnessing the Cult of Your Personality -- Don't Lose Your Ego, Use It The Greatest Risk of All - Nothing How to Meet the Press or 'I Want My CNBC!'
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Whether or not your brand is on social media, your consumers are. They are continuously sharing their good and bad experiences about your brand. Most brands are not prepared to deal with negative feedback which, if ignored, can spiral into a crisis. This book seeks to aid brand and business owners to structure organizations to be crisis- ready. Creating a crisis squad and a crisis playbook, envisioning various scenarios that can occur, and what the brand’s response should be are some of the areas the book delves into. It also recommends preventive measures that can save brands from social embarrassment, and social listening strategies that can alert organizations to a problem before it becomes a crisis. When everything else fails and a crisis is at hand, the focus shifts to executing the playbook, turning the conversation around leveraging evangelists and influencers. Once the crisis has ended, it’s time to audit the playbook and close the gaps, as well as evaluate financial or reputational damage done to the brand, and see how quickly one can recover.
