The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing" -- the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it. Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snatching our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth Godin calls this Interruption Marketing, and, as companies are discovering, it no longer works. Instead of annoying potential customers by interrupting their most coveted commodity -- time -- Permission Marketing offers consumers incentives to accept advertising voluntarily. Now this Internet pioneer introduces a fundamentally different way of thinking about advertising products and services. By reaching out only to those individuals who have signaled an interest in learning more about a product, Permission Marketing enables companies to develop long-term relationships with customers, create trust, build brand awareness -- and greatly improve the chances of making a sale. In his groundbreaking book, Godin describes the four tests of Permission Marketing: 1. Does every single marketing effort you create encourage a learning relationship with your customers? Does it invite customers to "raise their hands" and start communicating? 2. Do you have a permission database? Do you track the number of people who have given you permission to communicate with them? 3. If consumers gave you permission to talk to them, would you have anything to say? Have you developed a marketing curriculum to teach people about your products? 4. Once people become customers, do you work to deepen your permission to communicate with those people? And in numerous informative case studies, including American Airlines' frequent-flier program, Amazon.com, and Yahoo!, Godin demonstrates how marketers are already profiting from this key new approach in all forms of media.

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With an exclusive look inside Google, Disney, Yahoo, IBM, and others, this book shows how your company can use blogs to raise its visibility and transform internal communications. All companies, large and small, know that reaching customers directly and influencing--and being influenced by--them is essential to success. Blog Marketing. shows marketing and PR professionals as well small business owners how to do just that without spending a lot of money. Readers will learn how to tap into the power of blogs to create a direct line of communication with customers, raise the company's visibility, and position their organizations as industry thought leaders. ''Blogs will soon become a staple in the information diet of every serious businessperson . . . . Blogs offer an accelerated and efficient approach to acquiring and understanding the kind of information all of us need to make business decisions.''. -- John Battelle, Business 2.0

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. The principles and insights outlined in this highly engaging book have been invaluable to me in leading the marketing efforts at Victoria’s Secret Stores as well as on several P&G brands. — Jill Beraud, Executive Vice President, Marketing/Limited Brands and Victoria’s Secret   Differentiate yourself more effectively, protect yourself against competition, and drive higher margins   Bring entrepreneurial power to distribution, sales management, PR, promotion, advertising, and more   For marketers in every kind of company, from startup to global enterprise   Focus your marketing on what really works—and make the most of every marketing investment!   Marketing That Works introduces breakthrough marketing tools, tactics, and strategies for differentiating yourself around key competencies, insulating against competitive pressures, and driving higher, more sustainable profits.   From pricing to PR, advertising to viral marketing, this book’s techniques are relentlessly entrepreneurial: designed to deliver results fast, with limited financial resources and staff support. They draw on the authors’ decades of research and consulting, their cutting-edge work in   Wharton’s legendary Entrepreneurial Marketing classes, and their exclusive new survey of the Inc. 500’s fastest-growing companies. Whether you’re launching a startup or working inside a huge global enterprise, this will help you optimize every marketing investment you make. You’ll learn how to target the right customer, deliver the right added value, and make sure your customers will pay a premium for it—now, and for years to come.   Build the foundation for extraordinary profit Discover faster, smarter techniques for positioning, targeting, and segmentation   Drive entrepreneurial attitude throughout all your marketing functions Master entrepreneurial pricing, advertising, sales management, promotion—and even hiring   Maximize the value of all your stakeholder relationships Profit by marketing to investors, intermediaries, employees, partners, and users   Generate, screen, and develop better product ideas Engage combat on the right battlefields   Launch new products to maximize their lifetime profitability Stage the winning rollout: from fixing bugs to gaining reference accounts   Every dime you spend on marketing needs to work harder, smarter, faster. Every dime must differentiate your company based on your most valuable competencies. Every dime must protect you against competitors and commoditization. Every dime must drive high

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. Customer Share Marketing: How the World's Great Marketers Unlock Profits from Customer Loyalty teaches customer share marketing, which leverages customer loyalty through direct marketing and advanced, Internet-driven sales techniques. Author Tom Osenton demonstrates how leading companies apply customer share marketing to increase sales and profits, often more effectively and at a substantial savings over traditional methods.

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Part of the "Guerilla Marketing" series, this book focuses on why small and mid-sized businesses can benefit from conducting focus groups and surveys. Aiming to destroy the myth that only big companies can afford marketing research, it contains tips that are helpful for business owners, managers and entrepreneurs.

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The complete guide to a successful Twitter marketing campaign Twitter is a microblogging service that's changing the way we communicate. Marketers recognize its value, and Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day offers marketers, advertisers, brand managers, PR professionals, and business owners an in-depth guide to designing, implementing, and measuring the impact of a complete Twitter strategy. Expert author Hollis Thomases acquaints you with the Twitterverse, its conventions, and its fascinating demographics and statistics. She then teaches you step by step how to effectively craft successful branding and direct response strategies that can be scaled to any organization and its objectives. Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day uses interesting case studies, success stories, anecdotes, and examples to demonstrate how to use Twitter metrics in order to inform strategic direction. You'll discover how top companies-large and small-have leveraged this exciting communications platform. Twitter has become a phenomenon with 32 million users, including major companies such as Apple, JetBlue, and CNN This step-by-step guide explains the demographics, shows how companies are using Twitter, and explains how to scale the approach to your enterprise The detailed coverage includes the basics for Twitter newcomers and explores all elements of a successful strategy Expert author Hollis Thomases shows how to set goals, develop and implement a plan, attract followers, and measure the impact of a campaign The in-depth book explains how to maintain momentum and explores such issues as contests, promotions, and crisis management Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day is the ultimate guide to succeeding one tweet at a time!

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A Short Course in International Marketing Blunders is a series of short case studies describing marketing mistakes made by companies who should have known better. As a counterpoint to exclusively studying "the correct way" or only following the

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This book presents new ideas and tools across a wide range of marketing activities, from product and market selection and definition, to pricing, promotion and distribution. All companies and managers can apply the practical advice in this fundamental text. You'll be surprised at how this book can help change the way you sell your products.

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BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING covers current theories on business-to-business marketing from a global standpoint. It covers current theory from a practical viewpoint and includes market entry strategies trade fairs, reputation management and corporate communications. It looks at selling and marketing between organizations, companies, purchasers and suppliers.

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Marketing models is a core component of the marketing discipline. The recent developments in marketing models have been incredibly fast with information technology (e.g., the Internet), online marketing (e-commerce) and customer relationship management (CRM) creating radical changes in the way companies interact with their customers. This has created completely new breeds of marketing models, but major progress has also taken place in existing types of marketing models. The HANDBOOK OF MARKETING DECISION MODELS presents the state of the art in marketing decision models, dealing with new modeling areas such as customer relationship management, customer value and online marketing, but also describes recent developments in other areas. In the category of marketing mix models, the latest models for advertising, sales promotions, sales management, and competition are dealt with. New developments are presented in consumer decision models, models for return on marketing, marketing management support systems, and in special techniques such as time series and neural nets. Not only are the most recent models discussed, but the book also pays attention to the implementation of marketing models in companies and to applications in specific industries.

Price: $189.00 USD