This is the Small Business Marketing advice book you've been Googling for. Like having coffee with an expert, this book shares irreverent tips and secrets from WSJ bestselling author and marketing guru Rohit Bhargava on how to promote your business without a huge budget. This book is like a high energy masterclass and brainstorming session all in one - with actionable tips to transform your marketing approach within hours.
This is the Small Business Marketing advice book you've been Googling for. Like having coffee with an expert, this book shares irreverent tips and secrets from WSJ bestselling author and marketing guru Rohit Bhargava on how to promote your business without a huge budget. This book is like a high energy masterclass and brainstorming session all in one - with actionable tips to transform your marketing approach within hours.
"I strongly advise anybody wanting to start up their own business to read Marketing Judo" Sir John Harvey-Jones Marketing Judo aims to inspire people who want to build a brand or business but don't have the budgets for conventional marketing. That's the position the authors found themselves in when they bought the one Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurant in Yorkshire over ten years ago. They fell into a way of thinking, which they now call Marketing Judo. In judo, you lever other people's strengths or assets to your own advantage. In judo, your mind matters more than your size. In judo, anyone can become a black belt if they move quickly, train hard enough and keep their balance when others don't. Marketing Judo offers a framework for developing strategies and plans for small companies to do exactly that. It is a collection of real stories and events, from both the author's experiences and from other companies, from which the Marketing Judo principles evolved.Around the world, big companies have never been so vulnerable. It's always possible to find a competitive advantage, however big your opponent is, so join us on the "Tatami" or judo mat and learn how to use your brains rather than budgets, as we take you through the six principles of Marketing Judo.Available as a short, entertaining easy read book or as an audio CD or cassette, featuring the authors live in front of an audience of businesspeople in Leeds.
The Latest Edition Of The #1 Bestselling Trend Series Shared Online More Than 1 Million Times! The Non-Obvious series of books is an annual trend report on the top 15 trends likely to affect business and consumer behaviour in the upcoming year. The book has been a Wall Street Journal bestseller, the research has been viewed and shared online more by more than a million readers and the report has been a multi-year #1 best seller online.
Two advertising veterans explain the myths about branding—and how even the smallest businesses can benefit by defining themselves to their customers. Branding may be the single most misunderstood concept in marketing. It’s not only for big businesses with big bucks. It’s not about a logo, a color, a font, or a type of advertising. Branding is defining a company’s image in such a way that the customer is left with a single feeling about that business and what they do. Branding is about finding a business’s juicy center. Even small businesses on shoestring budgets and sole practitioners can learn the principles of good branding—an effort that encompasses not just messaging, but multiple day-to-day decisions that shape and build your customers’ perceptions and emotions. With numerous real-life examples and the expertise that comes only from experience, this book guides you to a new way of thinking about your business, and the kind of wisdom that no amount of money can buy.
Marketing is changing rapidly, so sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Don’t get frustrated, get scrappy. It’s an exciting time to be in marketing, with an array of equalizing platforms from the Internet to social media to content marketing, that have reset the playing field for businesses large and small. Yet, it's also a challenging time, with much work to do and an ever-changing array of platforms, features, and networks to master--all on tighter budgets than ever before. In Get Scrappy, chief brand strategist Nick Westergaard weaves hacks, tips, and idea starters together to provide a plan of attack for businesses of any size to: Demystify digital marketing in a way that makes sense for your business Do more with less Build a strong brand with something to say Create relevant and engaging content for your social media platforms Spark dialogue with your community of customers Measure what matter The result will be a reliable, repeatable system for building your brand, creating engaging content, and growing your community of customers. Don’t wait for marketing to reinvent itself. Instead, proactively reinvent your company’s marketing to maximize its reach!
WARNING: Do Not Read This Book If You Hate Money To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done. In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. It's literally a single page, divided up into nine squares. With it, you'll be able to map out your own sophisticated marketing plan and go from zero to marketing hero. Whether you're just starting out or are an experienced entrepreneur, The 1-Page Marketing Plan is the easiest and fastest way to create a marketing plan that will propel your business growth. In this groundbreaking new book you'll discover: - How to get new customers, clients or patients and how to make more profit from existing ones. - Why "big business" style marketing could kill your business and strategies that actually work for small and medium-sized businesses. - How to close sales without being pushy, needy, or obnoxious while turning the tables and having prospects begging you to take their money. - A simple step-by-step process for creating your own personalized marketing plan that is literally one page. Simply follow along and fill in each of the nine squares that make up your own 1-Page Marketing Plan. - How to annihilate competitors and make yourself the only logical choice. - How to get amazing results on a small budget using the secrets of direct response marketing. - How to charge high prices for your products and services and have customers actually thank you for it.
A Funny, Inspirational Book About How To Build A Brand #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Dikkers tells the hilarious, outrageous, and deeply personal story of how he built the most trusted news source in America, The Onion. Of course, all the stories in The Onion are fake, and anyone who takes them seriously is the true butt of the joke. But Outrageous Marketing tells the actual, uncensored story of The Onion. The Onion started as a small college humor newspaper in 1988. How did it grow to become a worldwide comedy brand with millions of social media followers and rabid fans today? Brands today tend to follow the herd when it comes to marketing and branding, but often it's running in a different direction of the herd that gets you noticed. The Onion did the opposite of what brands are supposed to do. The Onion didn't listen to its customers. It didn't give them what they wanted. It didn't engage with them. It was never "authentic." In fact, everything The Onion printed was fabricated, spoken through a phony facade. This was not by accident. It was calculated and executed with precision. What
This primer demystifies branding, demonstrates how to reveal a destination brand, and provides real world examples, as well as affordable, proven tools, templates and checklists to help breathe life into a small city brand.
Marketing does not entail a private conversation with a customer. Rather, it is more like a loud communication in the middle of a crowded park where passers-by and interested parties feel free to jump in. So how do you then engage with customers in a crowded marketplace as other challenges, such as diminishing marketing spend and maximising the return on the marketing investment, continue to plague marketers and leaders? But you need not worry! Help is at hand now... Marketing without Money is packed with tried-and-tested tools and techniques that have successfully worked. Bundled with the author's unique Branding House approach, it takes you through the process of building your brand. It is loaded with insights from business leaders, DIY charts, tables and pull-outs, frugal tips, examples and anecdotes for sharpening your marketing messaging. So grab a copy of Marketing without Money and win in your marketplace!
