In today's complex commercial environments, marketing has become a central aspect to every successful business. Businesses need flexible, effective means of gaining commercial traction by managing their relationships with audiences, stakeholders and competitors. They require effective marketing and branding that move beyond the standard forms of brand orientation and commercial interaction. New marketing models must think smart to create innovative strategies which have long-term sustainable economic goals. The Smart Marketing Book is a practical, reliable and concise title that offers the core marketing principles - applicable for anyone who wishes to improve their organization's financial and creative values. It is a straightforward guide that avoids unnecessary and time-consuming practices. An illustrative handbook that covers marketing principles and topics through visual innovation. A credible statement to all marketers trying to source the most relevant strategies from a field cursed with infinite information.
The difference between helping and selling is just two letters If you're wondering how to make your products seem more exciting online, you're asking the wrong question. You're not competing for attention only against other similar products. You're competing against your customers' friends and family and viral videos and cute puppies. To win attention these days you must ask a different question: "How can we help?" Jay Baer's Youtility offers a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life.
This second edition (third volume of the series), includes dozens of new marketing lessons from successful marketing geniuses in America's best run businesses. The text is laced with humor from an award-winning marketing columnist, trainer and business owner. Chapters include: What marketing is and how to do it, 3 ways to fix failed advertising, 3 easy steps to powerful branding, How to make price a market mechanism, 4 keys to winning market research, 7 cheapest ways to reach your marketing objective, 4 steps to reposition for success... and many more award winning tips, tricks and methods. Today's Librarian called it "a must have for the business section... filled with low-cost marketing training on getting press coverage, branding, pricing, portraying a professional image, and changing with the market." To order, contact Ronna Cohen, Emery Publishing Company, 800 Summer Street, Suite 340, Stamford, CT, 06901. Phone 1-800-243-2410. E-mail: [email protected]. Website: www.salestipwebsite.com. Publisher provided annotation.
SMART Marketing By: Larry Biederman When Larry Biederman joined Merrill Lynch in the 1960s he tried the standard sales tactics – and, like half of all financial advisors, was in danger of failing and quitting. But when he tweaked his process he ended up in the top 5% of brokers in his firm and went on to fifty years of a successful and fun career. In this book, Biederman explains his five marketing steps to enjoyably build and expand your financial advisory practice. From identifying prospects, developing a relationship, providing superior service, and more, each step comes with a clear explanation, scripts, case studies, and closing action steps for you to implement in your own business. Highlighting independent research and his personal experiences, Biederman shares proven advice for every financial advisor, no matter your experience level. You can earn your dream client’s investment business and build a career that provides success and fulfillment. Tired and boring sales tactics will get you tired and boring results – if you get any results at all. By using your own creativity and passion, you’ll not only have success, you’ll have fun. A brisk guide to working smarter, not harder, this book is key to your success.
"With straightforward advice and humor, marketing expert Andy Sernovitz will show you how the world's most respected and profitable companies get their best customers for free through the power of word of mouth.
It is time to become the content creator and marketeer you always dreamed of being? If you have a smartphone, then you are ready to create and build an audience for your brand or business. You have the technology and this book will give you the knowledge and practical skills to use it. Smartphone Smart Marketing is the follow-up book to the successful title Smartphone Media Production. It is written by award-winning filmmaker, professional digital marketer and content creator Robb Wallace. Robb has over sixteen years of experience in the field as well as an award-winning degree in Broadcast Production. In 2016 Smartphone Media Production showed its readers how to plan, capture, edit and distribute content (branded photography, audio, video and live streams) with only their phones. In this updated and fully revised version, Robb is back with even more great content including chapters on content marketing, social media channels and social media strategies. Who is this book for? It is for people who; Don't know how to create content to market their brand. Don't have the funds for a marketing manager but are willing to put in the hard work and learn the skills. Don't have a big budget for expensive things like promo videos, marketing images, social media campaigns. Don't know where to start when launching a new business or product. Have tried and failed to create engaging content for social media and are looking for a guide. Aspire to be a social media influencer. Wish to enter employment as a marketing professional. Interested in digital marketing. Need real-world digital skills to grow their business. Are interested in entrepreneurial skills. Are looking to create better images, videos or live streams. So if you want a solid, no-nonsense, practical overview to content marketing and media production, using only your smartphone, Smartphone Smart Marketing is the book for you. The book includes cheat guides, best apps, worked examples and more. Let's get to work, buy your copy, grab your phone, it’s time to leave the competition behind. Acclaim for Smartphone Media Production from 2016 “Received! Dove in - Liked what I saw! Really useful stuff”. Peter Shankman “This book is fantastic and would highly recommend it for anyone starting to get into making videos on their phone.” Stewart Richardson professional photographer. “This book has helped me increase my understanding and develop some really good strategies on maximising the use of smartphones and social media in a variety of ways, from personal use through to improving business reach. Excellent stuff!” Amazon. “So impressed I hired him” Peter Syme adventure specialist and business owner. “As a self-employed business owner, keeping up with changes in technology can be overwhelming, I found this book full of great information, presented in a clear and practical way – full of advice and resources to keep you on your toes.” Chris Wain Unique Adventure Tours Scotland. “I am a gent of a certain age and have had to embrace technology and the Internet as an adult and not something that I have grown up with or was taught at school. I run a Facebook page and a small stall making and selling custom props and toys and wanted to take things to the next level and having no experience in media production this sounded perfect. From my perspective the book is full of all the basic information I needed to get started making the most of my Facebook page and filming video, taking photographs and getting them out there on social media to get the most impact. Then the book is also full of everything else needed to take things even further, how to follow up on the social media interest and even loads of information coming from a business point of view which I’m sure I will use down the line as I take things further. Overall this book had everything I needed to get me up and running on social media, producing what I feel is way better quality content than I could have ever imagined I was capable of and all with a single piece of hardware, my Smartphone, it’s amazing.” Big Al Monkeytron Collective.
Smart Marketing is designed to help organizations looking for significant growth. Offering a great product or service does not guarantee success—to win these days, a business must also excel at marketing and selling. In most instances, a big marketing team and budget also isn’t necessary. To achieve big goals, focus must be put on the most important marketing and sales activities that generate the biggest impact for the business. This book outlines what those activities are and how to implement them. This book will appeal to CEOs, business owners, and independent professionals. It will also be very useful for marketers and sales managers. It is a “how to” guide to help readers cut through the hype and get straight to what really matters to this audience—growing business and revenue.
Internet marketing may be a bit like directing an orchestra; there are many parts played by many instruments and when they are out of sync you know it, but when they blend it can be pure and sweetharmony.
Seven easy to follow steps for any small business to create a focused Marketing Plan. In this book, the owners of a small business are led through the SMART Marketing 7 step process to Identify their REAL product, Identify their REAL market, Match their market's requirements with their resources, use their selling price as a factor in marketing, identify their targeted marketing activities, develop their campaign plan along with clear messages, and then implement and monitor results. Over all, their information gathering, decision making and planning are measured against the SMART model to make sure that everything is relevant and achievable. Any business can use these principles, and within 4 to 6 weeks, arrive at a marketing plan that is highly focused towards giving your ideal customers exactly what they want from your products.
