Download or read book The 15 Essential Marketing Masterclasses for Your Small Business written by Dee Blick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and proven masterclasses for simple and effective small business marketing This straightforward, practical book cuts through the morass of marketing theory to reveal the practical steps that small businesses can take to achieve phenomenal marketing results. Presenting fifteen comprehensive masterclasses, marketing expert Dee Blick presents easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement strategies to increase sales, prevent marketing mistakes, and build the foundations of a customer-driven brand. These fifteen comprehensive masterclasses can be implemented immediately, and cover such topics as marketing plans, copywriting, social media marketing, and public relations. Written by successful author and marketing guru who has worked with small businesses for twenty-seven years Includes practical, effective marketing strategies for every small business Appropriate for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and practicing marketing managers When it comes to marketing a small business, success means getting a big impact from a small investment. The 15 Essential Marketing Masterclasses for Your Small Business gives entrepreneurs and small business owners proven strategies for effective, profitable marketing.
Download or read book The 15 Essential Marketing Masterclasses for Your Small Business written by Dee Blick and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This straightforward, practical book cuts through the morass of marketing theory to reveal the practical steps that small businesses can take to achieve phenomenal marketing results"--
Download or read book The Startup Coach Teach Yourself written by Carl Reader and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of this book, you will have started your own business. This handy guide will help you to: - Evaluate yourself and your ideas - Assemble your research and your team - Raise the finances you need - Manage and market your business - Make a profit and stay sane! Whilst, other books help you talk the talk, the Teach Yourself Coach books will help you walk the walk. Who are you? * Anyone who wants to start their own business Where will this book take you? * You will have started your own business by the end of the book How does it work? * A combination of practical, tried-and-tested advice, and unique interactive exercises When can you do it? * In your own time and at your own pace What else do you get? * Access to free downloadable resources Why Teach Yourself®? * Teach Yourself books are trusted around the world and have helped 60 million people achieve their goals
Download or read book Marketing Your Small Business For Dummies written by Carolyn Tate and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created especially for the Australian customer! Attract customers and ensure the ongoing success of your small business with this no-nonsense guide Whether you own a bakery or a boutique, a plumbing or a finance business, this book gives you straightforward strategies to find more prospects, build your customer base and secure market share. Small-business guru Carolyn Tate empowers you to apply hundreds of high-impact and creative ways to market your business without breaking the bank. Know your target market — identify your ideal customers, and what, how and why they buy Develop business and marketing plans — learn how to create them and why they're so important Build effective databases — develop a database that creates business for you, without the headaches Solidify your branding — create a unique brand and keep it fresh and exciting Understand the power of advertising — assess if it's right for your business and how to pick the right strategies Master publicity — get your business in the media with the right message Implement relationship marketing — develop and maintain networks to create new opportunities Embrace websites and online marketing — build a website that drives customers to you, and use online tools and search engines to generate business
Download or read book Marketing written by Gloria Green and published by Dearborn Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now small business owners can improve their marketing skills with this "marketing mastery" course. Readers will learn how to develop and successfully implement a personalized marketing plan for selling their product or service, including selecting target markets, tips for do-it-yourself market research, and using and analyzing strategies and tactics. Follow four entrepreneurs as they apply the workshops and thought processes to their own business marketing plans. By the end of the book, you will have a marketing plan put together and ready to implement. Software based on the personal workshops is also available.
Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Marketing a Bestselling Book On a Shoestring Budget written by Dee Blick and published by Filament Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-read, jargon free book shows you step-by-step how you can enjoy writing, publishing and marketing your book so that it becomes an enduring bestseller. Written by an established and successful international #1 bestselling author (Dee's second book reached position 150 out of 7 million titles on Amazon and all her books are in the top 100 bestselling books in their category on Amazon several years after being published), Dee sells thousands of books worldwide including in China and America. You'll find practical, effective and powerful tools and tips on every page. The author shares her award winning templates including press releases, book launch invitations, speaker biographies and more so you can create yours effortlessly. You'll find out how you can identify your readers so that your content is appealing and relevant and, your marketing hits the spot every time. You'll discover how to tap into your knowledge and expertise to plan and write compelling content your readers will love. You'll be walked through the design, editorial and layout process so you can create a book that looks and feels attractive, professional and captivating. The publishing process can be a minefield but with Dee Blick's know-how you'll find the best publishing option for your book. She explains the benefits of self publishing, partnership publishing, securing a publishing deal and working with a literary agent - using her own personal insights and experience plus in-depth interviews with fellow authors and publishing professionals. If you find marketing baffling, you won't after reading the 10 clear and comprehensive marketing chapters. You'll learn how to market your book on a zero or shoestring budget using social media and traditional marketing to get phenomenal results. You'll also learn the insider secrets of approaching professional reviewers (shared by a highly esteemed professional reviewer of fiction and non-fiction books) and how to get dozens of genuine five-star reviews on Amazon and other review sites to boost your book sales further still. You'll also find out how to hold a packed out book launch that costs you nothing. With this book, you'll understand exactly how you can make serious money from your bestselling book on a step-by-step basis whether you're writing fiction or non-fiction. The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Marketing a Bestselling Book on a Shoestring Budget gives new authors and established authors everything they need to write a bestseller and sell thousands of books. If there's a book in you, this is the book for you!
Download or read book Youtility written by Jay Baer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Book written by Dee Blick and published by FilamentPublishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for you if you want to get to grips with your marketing but you need a helping hand. It's packed with powerful tips, proven tools and many real-life examples and case studies. If you're looking for commonsense marketing advice that you can implement immediately, you'll find it on every page. You'll learn how to: plan and review your marketing activities, write brilliant copy that generates sales, write sales letters that sells, effectively troubleshoot when your marketing is not delivering, make your website a magnet for visitors and loads more! Dee Blick is a respected business author and a multi-award winning Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Dee has 27 years marketing experience gained working with small businesses from all sectors. She is internally renowned for her practical approach to small business marketing and for getting results on the smallest of marketing budgets. Dee has also built a reputation as a formidable marketing troubleshooter. A speaker, columnist and small business marketing practioner, Dee is also the author of 'Powerful Marketing on a Shoestring Budget for Small Businesses'. Yorkshire born and bred, Dee lives with her husband and two sons in Sussex.
Download or read book Watertight Marketing written by Bryony Thomas and published by Ecademy Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most businesses have serious profit leaks, so when they run their marketing taps, revenue simply pours out of a leaky bucket. Readers who follow the process laid out in this guide will be able to step off the roller coaster of yo-yo sales results and get their business on a sustainable upward curve.
Download or read book The Only Book You Will Ever Need on Branding written by Michiel Maandag and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great product is not enough. You cannot sell or promote anything without an original and distinctive brand. But how do you create a good name, a memorable logo and a recognizable category so that everyone understands what you are selling? In The Only Book You Will Ever Need on Branding you'll find out everything you need to know - fast. Using quirky illustrations to make its point you'll discover how to fast forward the success of your brand in a couple of hours. You'll Grasp the key concepts of branding, learn how to improve your existing brand and find out what other start-up books don't tell you
Download or read book The Lean Product Playbook written by Dan Olsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to: Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource.
Download or read book The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader How to Succeed by Building Customer and Company Value written by Thomas Barta and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL MARKETING LEADER? The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader, by former McKinsey Partner Thomas Barta and senior London Business School professor Patrick Barwise, is the first research-based leadership book for marketers in the 21st century. Based on the largest ever research study of its kind, with detailed data on over 8,600 leaders in more than 170 countries, this game-changing book identifies 12 specific behaviors--or Powers--that drive marketers' business impact and career success. Reading it, you’ll learn how to: • MOBILIZE YOUR BOSS: Make an impact at the highest level and align marketing with the company's priorities. • MOBILIZE YOUR COLLEAGUES: Inspire and motivate your non-marketing colleagues to deliver a great customer experience. • MOBILIZE YOUR TEAM: Build and align a winning marketing team. • MOBILIZE YOURSELF: Focus on goals that will benefit your customers, your company and yourself, by meeting your own needs and ambitions. By zeroing in on the value creation zone ("V-Zone")--the all-important overlap between your company's and customers' needs--you’ll be able to help the business win in the market--and achieve your career goals. Warning: This is not a marketing book. It’s a leadership book for marketers, using the latest research on what works--and what doesn’t--in marketing's digital age. BONUS: Receive full access to an online self-assessment tool and other marketing leadership resources.
Download or read book Disciplined Entrepreneurship written by Bill Aulet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/
Download or read book The Challenger Customer written by Brent Adamson and published by Portfolio. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, the bestselling authors of The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now their latest research reveals something even more surprising: Being a Challenger seller isn’t enough. Your success or failure also depends on who you challenge. Picture your ideal customer: friendly, eager to meet, ready to coach you through the sale and champion your products and services across the organization. It turns out that’s the last person you need. Most marketing and sales teams go after low-hanging fruit: buyers who are eager and have clearly articulated needs. That’s simply human nature; it’s much easier to build a relationship with someone who always makes time for you, engages with your content, and listens attentively. But according to brand-new CEB research—based on data from thousands of B2B marketers, sellers, and buyers around the world—the highest-performing teams focus their time on potential customers who are far more skeptical, far less interested in meeting, and ultimately agnostic as to who wins the deal. How could this be? The authors of The Challenger Customer reveal that high-performing B2B teams grasp something that their average-performing peers don’t: Now that big, complex deals increasingly require consensus among a wide range of players across the organization, the limiting factor is rarely the salesperson’s inability to get an individual stakeholder to agree to a solution. More often it’s that the stakeholders inside the company can’t even agree with one another about what the problem is. It turns out only a very specific type of customer stakeholder has the credibility, persuasive skill, and will to effectively challenge his or her colleagues to pursue anything more ambitious than the status quo. These customers get deals to the finish line far more often than friendlier stakeholders who seem so receptive at first. In other words, Challenger sellers do best when they target Challenger customers. The Challenger Customer unveils research-based tools that will help you distinguish the "Talkers" from the "Mobilizers" in any organization. It also provides a blueprint for finding them, engaging them with disruptive insight, and equipping them to effectively challenge their own organization.
Download or read book Influencer Marketing Strategy written by Gordon Glenister and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Sales & Marketing category Create an influencer marketing strategy that benefits both brand and the influencer with this fascinating guide, rich in case studies from the biggest and the best and the small and specialist. Influencer marketing can no longer be ignored. Whether it's broad scale celebrity endorsement, or micro-influencers with niche, highly targeted followings, influencer marketing has become a natural extension of content marketing. However, while the opportunities are vast, the very nature of influencer marketing means that a brand must relinquish control of their marketing message to allow the influencer to communicate in their natural style. This can be unnerving, and it's therefore imperative to have a clearly defined campaign that mutually benefits and protects both the brand and the influencer. Influencer Marketing Strategy gives readers everything they need to create influencer marketing strategy. It will walk readers through the key considerations, and offer insight into decisions such as choosing the right influencer, planning content, and how to incorporate influencer marketing into your wider marketing strategy. This book presents fascinating, in-depth case studies from the beauty, fashion, gaming, travel, health and tech industries, demonstrating the variety of ways that influencer marketing can be utilized, and the huge opportunities it presents for organizations and industries of all sizes. Influencer Marketing Strategy is the ultimate guide to developing a successful influencer marketing strategy - and building campaigns that create real value.
Download or read book Epic Content Marketing How to Tell a Different Story Break through the Clutter and Win More Customers by Marketing Less written by Joe Pulizzi and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reach more customers than ever with TARGETED CONTENT Epic Content Marketing helps you develop strategies that seize the competitive edge by creating messages and “stories” tailored for instant, widespread distribution on social media, Google, and the mainstream press. It provides a step-by-step plan for developing powerful content that resonates with customers and describes best practices for social media sharing and search engine discoverability. Joe Pulizzi is a content marketing strategist, speaker and founder of the Content Marketing Institute, which runs the largest physical content marketing event in North America, Content Marketing World.
Download or read book Marketing For Dummies written by Jeanette Maw McMurtry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pump up your business with the latest, greatest marketing techniques This updated edition of Marketing for Dummies will walk you through the latest marketing technologies and methods, including customer experience, retargeting, digital engagement across all channels and devices, organic and paid SEO, Google ads, social media campaigns and posts, influencer and content marketing, and so much more. You’ll discover what works, what doesn’t, and what is best for your business and budget. Learn the marketing and sales strategies that work in any economy Discover how to engage customers with trust and enthusiasm Understand post-pandemic changes in consumer attitudes Discover new tools and technologies for finding customers and inspiring loyalty Adapt your brand, pricing, and sales approach to make your business more valuable Avoid common marketing mistakes and learn how to measure the impact of your efforts In a post-pandemic, up or down economy, it’s harder than ever to meet highly complex and ever-changing customer expectations. The top-selling Marketing For Dummies covers basics like sales strategy, channel selection and development, pricing, and advertising. We also teach you complex elements like personalization, customer behavior, purchasing trends, ESG ratings, and market influences. With this complete guide, you can build a business that not only competes in a challenging market, but wins. For small to mid-size business owners and marketing professionals, Marketing For Dummies lets you harness the latest ideas to drive traffic, boost sales, and move your business forward.
