Decoding direct sales and marketing is comprised of a series of carefully-selected tips and insights for any sales professional or entrepreneur looking to get a jump start on their marketing strategy. Written by an entrepreneur who has built a handful of businesses in insurance sales, software, and real estate. This book tries to give the reader a road map on how to get about setting up and executing their overall sales and marketing plan.
Decoding direct sales and marketing is comprised of a series of carefully-selected tips and insights for any sales professional or entrepreneur looking to get a jump start on their marketing strategy. Written by an entrepreneur who has built a handful of businesses in insurance sales, software, and real estate. This book tries to give the reader a road map on how to get about setting up and executing their overall sales and marketing plan.
In this groundbreaking book, author David Forbes explains human motivation and provides ways that marketers can effectively reach the consumer. The book uses decades of psychology research and the author's own tool, the Forbes Matrix that identifies, organizes, and explains the nine core motivations.
Executives and professionals speak different languages, as disparate as Swahili and Greek. Agendas, vocabularies, and cultural conditioning destroy meaningful communication between them. This book exposes selling myths and profit-killing gaps between illusion and reality. Executives live in a different world from the rest of us. They think differently, act differently, and buy differently. For the professions-those in our culture who package and sell information for a living-architects, lawyers, engineers, accountants, brokers, MBAs, CPAs, marketers, and consultants of every stripe, persuasion and profession, a shift of thinking is required to design and hold a Persuasive Executive Conversation. A number of preconceptions and cultural myths need to be bulldozed to clear the way for this thinking shift. Three things are required to answer the Buyer's questions and sell well in the executive suite: the story, the tools and the delivery. We will explore each and help you prepare a presentation that works from the executive's point of view, that you can take into any boardroom, tell your story, and double your changes of getting hired. When selling to executives what you sell is different from how you sell it. While professionals are expert at delivering services to their clients, they are amateurs at telling people what they do for a living. These skills are not taught at Harvard, Yale, or State U. Our job is to help people make money. For three decades we have intensively trained 12,000 managers, professional salespeople, and consultants to persuade at the executive level. While doing so, we discovered a critical element that managers overlook or ignore that can cost one-quarter, or more, of sales revenues. So what is this low-grade infection that limits a firm's potential and costs so much money? What is this counter-intuitive malaise that works against the philosophies and strategies of reputable companies managed by bright, educated people? It is this: corporations and consulting firms spend big money to hide what they do from their Buyers. It is nearly impossible to get a company, much less a salesperson, to explain what they do for a living stated in the Buyer's terms; they cannot tell a selling story that is different form the competitors', makes sense in the Buyer's world, or is even interesting. In many cases, they insult the Buyer's intelligence. The executive market calls it BS. What we learned from our Clients will surprise you as it did us: If a firm can cut the BS and answer five logical questions on the mind of every executive-level Buyer, sales successes can double. For the professional this book is a cash cow that can be milked for the rest of your career.
Strategic social media marketing can be the cure-all your business needs to reach the right audience at the right time. STATUS UPDATE is an easy-to-digest guide to help any Life and/or Health agent or agency make the most of their Facebook marketing system. In this book, I share, among other things, various tips and hacks to help you boost ROI and grow your overall Insurance agency via Facebook marketing.
How many US households are unbanked or underbanked? The Federal Reserve estimates that about 6.7% of American households are Unbanked, that is, those without checking or savings accounts. Other estimates suggest 7.7%. The data also suggests that 18% of households in the U.S fall under the "underbanked" category. Those who consume alternative banking services regularly. This book explores the various root causes of this phenomenon, the population groups mostly affected and some thoughts on how to try and provide actionable solutions to the problem.
Are some of the theories of OECD and UN around marketing intangibles sacrosanct? The same have been countered through qualitative and quantitative arguments. Quantitative arguments are based upon real life scenarios, with reference to statistical analyses on selected empirical data. Genesis of litigation around marketing intangibles analysed, along with solutions. Concept of royalties for licensed manufacturers explained in the context of regulatory regime of India. Practical solutions provided on harmonisation of transfer pricing and customs duty regulations in complex cases. Concept of attribution of profits to dependent agency permanent establishments explained, with reference to Berry Ratio. Foreword by Dr. Raffalle Dr. Raffaele Petruzzi & Dr. Alfred Storck Professors of Vienna University of Economics and Business
Decoding Branding explains the evolution of branding and how the disrupting factors like digital revolution, technological advancement, changing consumer behavior, and the COVID-19 pandemic have reshaped the marketing landscape. Fundamental principles of fostering strong brands are distilled with illustrations of case studies from various industries. A structured and holistic framework to building and revamping brands is clearly presented for corporations to remain competitive in this constantly changing operating environment. Interviews with branding experts and corporate leaders are featured at the end of each chapter to allow readers to obtain a complete appreciation of brand development from different perspectives.
In this groundbreaking book Phil Barden reveals what decision science explains about people’s purchase behaviour, and specifically demonstrates its value to marketing. He shares the latest research on the motivations behind consumers’ choices and what happens in the human brain as buyers make their decisions. He deciphers the ‘secret codes’ of products, services and brands to explain why people buy them. And finally he shows how to apply this knowledge in day to day marketing to great effect by dramatically improving key factors such as relevance, differentiation and credibility. Shows how the latest insights from the fields of Behavioural Economics, psychology and neuro-economics explain why we buy what we buy Offers a pragmatic framework and guidelines for day-to-day marketing practice on how to employ this knowledge for more effective brand management - from strategy to implementation and NPD. The first book to apply Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize-winning work to marketing and advertising Packed with case studies, this is a must-read for marketers, advertising professionals, web designers, R&D managers, industrial designers, graphic designers in fact anyone whose role or interest focuses on the ‘why’ behind consumer behaviour. Foreword by Rory Sutherland, Executive Creative Director and Vice-Chairman, OgilvyOne London and Vice-Chairman,Ogilvy Group UK Full colour throughout
