For any business owner, franchise operator, or marketing executive who seeks to increase sales while lowering marketing costs, Jeff Slutsky offers a new way of thinking. In this indispensable guide to getting more bang for your buck, the well-known marketing consultant tells business managers to think tactically and locally -- using nontraditional, highly targeted forms of marketing and advertising. The tactics, ideas, approaches, and strategies in Street Fighter Marketing Solutions are geared for the bewildering new challenges that confront business- people in the new hypercompetitive, advertising-polluted environment in which they must seek profits. With pressures from "big box" retailers, internet competition, and a glut of other immediate competitors, businessmen and businesswomen need a war chest of proven ideas and strategies to help them thrive. Additionally, local businesses suffer from advertising price increases despite eroding audiences from the local media, especially newspapers, radio, and TV. This book could be the answer to your current and future marketing problems. You'll learn how to mold and manipulate traditional advertising methods while supplementing or supplanting them with alternative, novel techniques for lower cost and higher reward. National and regional corporations who sell their products and services through a network of local retailers, franchisees, or dealers will also benefit greatly from this book. It will provide them with an easy-to-understand blueprint on how to develop, roll out, and maintain a practical, money-saving, sales-generating Street Fighter Marketing program throughout their organization. In a book full of success stories, Slutsky discusses in a clear, practical, straightforward manner how Street Fighter Marketing techniques can work for you. The first step to growing your market share may well be to spend a few hours in the company of one of the nation's most savvy and engaging business tacticians. For more information and a downloadable video, visit www.streetfightermarketing.com.

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All of Georgia law enforcement is aware that WMM Advertising-also known as "We Make Millionaires"-is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state. But when a tape recording of a man's death surfaces that may involve WMM, Atlanta homicide detective Danny Houser realizes that he may actually have the smoking gun needed to go after the firm. All he needs is someone inside WMM to sniff out the company's secrets. Soon he sets his sights on Alexis Greenspan, aka Nina Coles, the telemarketer's top sales associate. Approaching retirement, Houser will do everything in his power to manipulate Coles and solve this one last case...no matter who gets hurt in the process.

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Get Market Smart Quickly and Painlessly!. Naked Marketing strips away the mystique and reveals what you really need to do to increase your company's sales and profits. - Winning strategies for all types and sizes of businesses. - Real-life examples. - How to increase sales and profits. - What you should and shouldn't do. - A familiar face on television and radio talk shows, Mr. Grede speaks on the subject of marketing and strategic thinking at civic organizations, and corporate venues. - E-Books: The Sales Managers Guidebook. The Retailers Guidebook. Developing a Strategic Marketing Plan--A Self- Guided Workbook. How to Be Your Own Advertising Agency (For the Small Business Owner). View chapter listings and sample excerpts online at: www.thegredecompany.com. - Print Books: Naked Marketing--The Bare Essentials, New Revised Edition. (Marquette University Press). 5 Kick-Ass Strategies to Reach the Next Level (SourceBooks, 2006)

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The Everything Guide to Writing Copy is a step-by-step guide to writing effective copy for a variety of media including print, Web, radio, trade journals, and much more. Packed with tips and tricks used by the pros, this valuable resource teaches you to promote products and services, build brands, and write copy that boosts your company's bottom line. Features expert strategies for you to: Write compelling headlines, tag lines, and leads Avoid common copywriting mistakes Strengthen brand development Start a freelance copywriting business Write copy for all media-print, radio, TV, and Web sites Whether you're a professional copywriter or just starting out, The Everything Guide to Writing Copy will inspire you to create innovative, sales-generating advertising and marketing pieces.

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An old adage says ''numbers don't lie.'' But how do you know if they do lie? How is an investor supposed to know when a company is misleading its shareholders with false financial statements? Financial Self-Defense for Investors outlines the manipulations and shenanigans embedded within financial information, from annual reports to investor prospectuses. Investors need to know what the tricks and sleights of hand are or could be. This highly readable book explains how companies alter their financial statements and the other practices used to pull one over on shareholders. The book is a primer for investors in the tradition of Confessions of an Advertising Man. It will appeal to both novice investors and seasoned professionals. Industry practitioners will nod in appreciation as they recognize some of the grey-area techniques used to manipulate information with timing and spin. Professional fraudsters may regret this publication. It also contains a financial sucker test that identifies individual gullibility as a lead-in to financial disaster. You cannot afford to miss this book.

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This is Why • Keep in contact with current clients • Reach millions of potential clients • Share your business news • Be a voice in your industry • Manage your company reputation • Communicate with employees and partners • Build your client list • Boost your bottom line Now, Learn How Social media pros Starr Hall and Chadd Rosenberg take you behind the scenes of today’s hottest social networks and help you uncover the best social sites for your business. Using simple steps and solutions, learn how to set up an attractive company profile, reach and engage your target market, develop stronger relationships with your current clientele, enhance your reputation, and become a recognized expert in your industry—investing nothing more than minutes a day! ? Identify the best social-site matches for your business ? Brand your online profile using customizing features ? Develop content that increases your search engine exposure ? Practice proven techniques to engage and attract quality customers ? Use unique strategies to maintain and improve your company’s reputation ? Incorporate social media marketing and advertising opportunities into future business plans Plus, gain social networking success tips, insights, and techniques

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Powerlines, the exceptional slogans that people remember long after the campaign ends, stand out from the barrage of marketing messages consumers face each day. A product, service, company, candidate, or an organization with a powerline outshines the competition every time. Steve Cone, author of Steal These Ideas!, reveals the secrets to contemporary marketing's biggest mystery: how to conjure the phrase that will make a product irresistible and memorable. This book restores the lost art of creating killer slogans to its proper place: front and center in every campaign. Drawing on examples of great and not-so-great lines from marketing, politics, and popular culture, Cone provides an irreverent, intelligent, and insightful primer on a singularly important aspect of brand building. Silver Medal Winner, Advertising/Marketing/PR/Event Planning Category, Axiom Business Book Awards (2009)

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Traditionally, company leaders develop a business strategy based on bottom lines and profit margins, then hire an ad agency to back up that strategy with creative advertising. But history shows that some of the most effective branding campaigns are born when companies work with ad agencies to develop a business strategy that has a big, creative idea at its heart-what CEO of Euro RSCG Bob Schmetterer calls the Creative Business Idea. In Leap, Bob Schmetterer shows advertisers how to combine advertising creativity and bottom-line realities to develop winning business strategies and winning ad campaigns. He analyzes some of the most creative business ideas in history, showing how successful advertising and marketing strategies do more than simply communicate the brand-they define it. Advertisers know how to create demand for an existing brand, but Schmetterer argues that the next challenge for advertisers is to help their clients apply creative thinking to their core business strategy before they launch a branding blitz. Leap is about connecting the left brain and the right brain to develop solid business strategies that are also creative, fresh, and exciting. It's about mixing business's cold fixation on numbers with the warm heart of art and creativity to build revolutionary brands. It's about connecting with and listening to the client, understanding the business and the product, tapping into the client's passion for the product, and transmitting that passion to the consumer. It's about what happens when the business makes creativity part of its core strategy-enabling it to move beyond self-imposed boundaries and expand the limits of its reach. With a wealth of examples from Volvo to Purdue, Schmetterer shows ad agencies and managers how to help their clients develop the big, creative idea that will transform their businesses-and perhaps their industries. It's time for companies to make the Leap that synthesizes business and creativity to reap the full rewards of profitable innovation. BOB SCHMETTERER is Chairman and CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide, a one of the world's top five global advertising and communications agencies with clients such as Intel, Peugeot, Air France, Orange, Abby National, MCI, Danone Group, Reckitt Benckiser, Volvo, and Yahoo!

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For any business owner, franchise operator, or marketing executive who seeks to increase sales while lowering marketing costs, Jeff Slutsky offers a new way of thinking. In this indispensable guide to getting more bang for your buck, the well-known marketing consultant tells business managers to think tactically and locally -- using nontraditional, highly targeted forms of marketing and advertising. The tactics, ideas, approaches, and strategies in Street Fighter Marketing Solutions are geared for the bewildering new challenges that confront business- people in the new hypercompetitive, advertising-polluted environment in which they must seek profits. With pressures from "big box" retailers, internet competition, and a glut of other immediate competitors, businessmen and businesswomen need a war chest of proven ideas and strategies to help them thrive. Additionally, local businesses suffer from advertising price increases despite eroding audiences from the local media, especially newspapers, radio, and TV. This book could be the answer to your current and future marketing problems. You'll learn how to mold and manipulate traditional advertising methods while supplementing or supplanting them with alternative, novel techniques for lower cost and higher reward. National and regional corporations who sell their products and services through a network of local retailers, franchisees, or dealers will also benefit greatly from this book. It will provide them with an easy-to-understand blueprint on how to develop, roll out, and maintain a practical, money-saving, sales-generating Street Fighter Marketing program throughout their organization. In a book full of success stories, Slutsky discusses in a clear, practical, straightforward manner how Street Fighter Marketing techniques can work for you. The first step to growing your market share may well be to spend a few hours in the company of one of the nation's most savvy and engaging business tacticians. For more information and a downloadable video, visit www.streetfightermarketing.com.

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If advertising and public relations were the best ways to connect with a company's audience through traditional media, and blogs are the best way to connect with millions of customers through the medium of online consumer generated media, then how can companies best use blogs to connect with their audience through the medium of consumer-generated media? The answer is through blogger relations, the process of interacting with bloggers and blog readers to get a company's message to an audience. This book targets business people, marketing professionals, public relations firms, search engine optimization and online marketing agency staff with a primer on the importance of corporate blogging and how to conduct a successful blogger relations ongoing campaign. * Provides tools for companies to interact with customers through blogging communities * Shows how to transform public relations and search marketing through consumer-generated media, RSS feeds and comment interaction strategies * Describes how to optimize blog articles for blog search engines and provides content strategies * Provides companies the planning tools to evaluate its blogging community and company resources for effective blogging

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