Download or read book The Entrepreneur s Guide to Advertising written by James R. Ogden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experts show entrepreneurs how to execute advertising campaigns and maintain a unified message when advertising and communicating with customers. Geared to the fast-changing media world of the 21st century, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising was written to offer both basic advertising concepts and advanced, state-of-the-art information about the new advertising environment. In its pages, two expert authors walk the entrepreneur through each and every stage necessary to create an integrated and synergistic advertising and marketing communications program. This guide covers all of the many facets of advertising, as well as the variables that make up the Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) mix. Most notably, the book provides a framework entrepreneurs can use to develop a marketing communication (MARCOM) plan of their own. Readers will come away from The Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising with an enhanced ability to make research-based judgments about their market and a new savvy about their approach to communications.

Download or read book The Entrepreneur s Guide to Market Research written by Anne M. Wenzel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning your new business starts here. This invaluable guide arms entrepreneurs with all they need to know to research and analyze potential markets—key steps in constructing effective marketing plans, establishing sound financial forecasts, and finding backers. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Market Research is a must-have for anyone who wants to start or expand a business. This fact-filled, actionable book offers a step-by-step guide to researching and documenting the market potential of any product or service, something that is an essential—and too-often overlooked—part of constructing a workable business plan. Author Anne M. Wenzel, herself a principal in a market research firm, takes entrepreneurs through the process of assessing such things as market size and growth, market trends and needs, emerging technologies, competition, and distribution patterns. She discusses types of market research and makes it clear what market research can and can't do to improve the chances of success. Finally, the book shows entrepreneurs how to document findings as part of a well-written business plan that will be invaluable for their own decision-making and can also be shared with potential partners, lenders, and investors.

Download or read book From Starting Small to Winning Big written by Shishir Mishra and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Marketing Guide for Start-up Entrepreneurs is a practical, step-by-step guide that will help budding entrepreneurs in setting up and executing their digital marketing strategy from scratch to achieve the goals they have set for their start-ups. Topics covered in this book include search engine optimization, content marketing, social media marketing, search engine marketing, and online reputation management are essential for entrepreneurs to learn and master for the success of their start-up. The author guides entrepreneurs in establishing a digital presence of their startups to jet fuel their business growth. He brings in real-life examples and insights gained from executing digital marketing strategies for start-ups and small businesses. This book is perfect for start-up entrepreneurs, founders, marketers, and small business owners who are unaware of digital marketing concepts and how to use digital marketing for their advantage. It will give them practical tips on applying digital marketing to increase their brand awareness and sales–a concise book that can be completed quickly. The text serves as a reference guide for start-up entrepreneurs, to which they can always come back to while setting up and executing their digital marketing strategy.

Download or read book The Entrepreneur s Guide to Marketing written by Robert F. Everett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketing often scares entrepreneurs. They've sweat buckets coming up with a valuable product or service, and now they have to sell it? Won't it sell itself? No. But, as marketing expert Bob Everett shows, marketing is just not that hard. At some level, entrepreneurs know that. They know what appeals to them and what leaves them cold. They know when a person or marketing claim is trustworthy, and they know when claims are exaggerated. Yet when it comes to marketing their own products and services to others, entrepreneurs often find it difficult to apply that same judgment and common sense. Everett to the rescue! He helps entrepreneurs position products in the market, then sell them effectively and ethically. Everett first destroys marketing myths: • Marketing is difficult and needs to be done by professionals. • Good marketing has to be expensive. • Marketing skills require extensive training • Marketing requires a great deal of creativity These myths have spawned a multi-billion dollar industry consisting of advertising agencies, public relations firms, marketing consultants, and academic marketing programs in business schools. But as this book shows, marketing is a simple process that anyone can master—and that entrepreneurs must master if they are to succeed. Fortunately, the most effective marketing programs are usually the most honest, simple, and inexpensive. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Marketing is designed to help the entrepreneur, business owner, manager, or marketing professional harness his or her own inner wisdom and personal experience to develop powerful and efficient marketing programs. Both a how-to and a how to think about it book, it takes readers through a step-by-step process of figuring things out for themselves. The result? A successful marketing program that will help entrepreneurs harvest new customers, more dollars, and overall success.

Download or read book Start Up Marketing written by Philip R. Nulman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can I do to succeed? Should I advertise? Is direct mail effective? Can I copromote my product? Should I hire someone to market my company? If you're a small business owner and these are questions you keep asking yourself, but you don't have thefoggiest notion as to what marketing means, or you know a little about marketing but think it will cost you a fortune, then "Start Up Marketing" is for you. Phil Nulman clearly and simply defines marketing, giving you practical marketing campaigns, utilizing principles that have long helped large corporations thrive. The author shows you how to make your product or service known, what marketing tools best suit your needs and when you should implement your plans. The book helps you define a clear vision for the future and provides methods for achieving greater success. After reading Start Up Marketing, and incorporating its marketing techniques, your business will soar. "Start Up Marketing, a blueprint for small business success," is written in a very accessible, easy-to-follow format. The book is a usable, reliable manual that you can follow step-by-step toward achieving your goals -- increased exposure, profitability and recognition.

Download or read book One Hour Marketing written by Herman Pool and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Communicates very complicated ideas in a very simple manner” (Jay Conrad Levinson, author of Guerrilla Marketing). Who says marketing has to takes weeks or months—or even hours—to plan and execute? All you need is sixty minutes, an open mind, and One Hour Marketing. If you’ve been running your business on empty because marketing seemed too confusing, too difficult, or too time-consuming, relax. One Hour Marketing tells you what you need to know to make your marketing work—fast! In a book you can read in one hour, Herman Pool shows you why marketing works, and how you can build a plan in an hour, then execute it without huge time commitments. Read this book and you will: * learn what steps to take to make your marketing work * discover how to identify your ideal target market to make sales easier * build an actionable marketing plan quickly * understand the essential methods and tools you need to succeed You’ll even learn the secrets to getting the work done—without having to do the work yourself.

Download or read book Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing written by Perry Marshall and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MASTER LOCAL SEO AND REACH THE RIGHT CUSTOMERS EVERY TIME With Google, Yahoo!, and Bing returning local businesses as results on more than a billion daily searches, Google Adwords expert Perry Marshall and lead generation expert Talor Zamir introduce you to the basic framework behind a successful local SEO campaign. From defining local search--often confused with paid search and search engine marketing--to local listing and reviews to social outreach and effective content development, this guide delivers the tools to build an entire local marketing campaign. You'll learn how to: Capture high-quality leads from Google AdWords and Bing in 48 hours Master the components of a high-converting campaign and get the most bang for your buck Harness mobile search advertising and Facebook ads for maximum results

Download or read book Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business written by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reel in the Profits with YouTube YouTube delivers more than a billion minutes of streaming content to 1.3 billion active users every day. That's equivalent to one-third of all internet users and at least a billion reasons to start creating videos that promote your business, brand, products, and services today. Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business is the video marketing blueprint you need to create videos that educate, entertain, and inspire viewers to take action. You'll learn how to plan, edit, promote, and share your videos with the public, as well as how to leverage YouTube's tools to help spotlight your business and your products without spending a fortune. From video production to promotion, this guide shares the battle-tested strategies and tried-and-true advice from successful YouTube experts to help you: Set up your channel and become a YouTube Partner to start monetizing your videos Create a virtual community that uses and loves your products Cater your videos to your target audience at every stage—pre-production, production, post-production, and promotion Drive traffic to your channel, website, or social media with optimized video titles, tags, playlists, and more Promote your YouTube videos using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social sites Make a video go viral with the help of blogs, websites, and other online resources Find out what a YouTube channel can do for you as you learn to create your channel, leverage it as a marketing tool, and maximize your return on investment.

Download or read book Ultimate Guide to Amazon Advertising written by Timothy P. Seward and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This timely book is perfect for every brand or product marketer who wants to fully leverage the Amazon platform—both for sales and brand exposure. Timothy’s practical step-by-step advice is simple to follow and put into practice." —Steve Fisher, team lead, retail marketing, Lenovo "This book should be called the Ultimate Guide to Amazon because it’s so much more than just advertising. It’s really about building your brand on Amazon. Timothy is able to walk someone through how to do this step-by-step. It was easy to follow. I really enjoyed it." —Michelle Reed, senior vice president, Perry Ellis International Expand Your Brand Online and Offline with Amazon Advertising Amazon is where consumers search, learn about, and shop for your products (whether from you or another seller). And with 310 million active users and counting, this is the ecommerce platform you can’t afford to ignore. Amazon advertising and customer growth expert Timothy P. Seward shares nearly two decades of expertise in retail and ecommerce to lift the veil on doing business on Amazon. Seward shows you how to build an aggressive, streamlined advertising campaign, increase your search visibility, consistently capture consumer demand, and accelerate new product sales without big-budget national ad campaigns. You'll learn how to: Determine if Vendor Central or Seller Central is right for your brand Capture new customers through Sponsored Product Campaigns Apply the five essential elements of a high-quality product detail page Establish metrics, evaluate performance against keyword types, and perform competitive analyses Add negative keywords that can benefit your advertising campaigns Apply Amazon’s secret formula for long-term winning

Download or read book Guerrilla Marketing Online written by Jay Conrad Levinson and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From building and maintaining a web site to creating an online catalog and encouraging users to buy your product online, this definitive guide to marketing your business on the Internet offers the entrepreneur basic training for survival and success online.

Download or read book Reality Marketing Revolution written by Eric Keiles and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketers followed the advice of traditional ad agencies. But mass advertising like radio, TV, and billboards never really fit the challenge of marketing a small business. So it's time for the Reality Marketing Revolution -- to create new a system of marketing that will transform any small business into a money making machine. Reality Marketing Revolution offers a new way of thinking about your company's marketing strategies and tactics that will help you tap new markets, generate more leads, close more sales and make more money. It's the ultimate guide to help today's entrepreneur grow their sales and profit beyond their dreams in today's ultra competitive world.

Download or read book Social Rules for Entrepreneurs and Small Business written by Paul Slack and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why this book? There are plenty of books about social media marketing on the bookstore shelves; what makes this one different is that Paul Slack cuts through the hype and gets down to business basics that can come only from hands-on business successes. Paul speaks the language of business owners and CEOs and creates efficient and effective methods for capitalizing on social media marketing. Social Rules! provides strategic dos and don'ts and helps you determine how to implement the best tools. Whether you do this in-house by utilizing a current employee or hire a consultant to help you accomplish these goals, you'll learn the optimal rules of engagement and how to measure results. With Social Rules! you will understand and apply your new-found knowledge to answer these questions: How does social media relate directly to my business marketing? What are the best practices in social media and how can I use them effectively? Why is it so important from the consumer perspective? How can I effectively shift my advertising budget from nontraditional marketing to social media?

Download or read book The Entrepreneur s Guide to Writing Business Plans and Proposals written by K. Dennis Chambers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurs—and entrepreneurial companies—live or die by the quality of their plans and proposals. Whether it's to get funding for a new product line or business from a client, writing hard-hitting prose that answers essential questions and makes specific requests is an indispensable skill. Entrepreneur, ad man, and writing teacher Dennis Chambers shows how entrepreneurs can persuade people, through skillful writing, to pony up capital or contracts. This ability—which can be learned—is rare in today's media-saturated world. But it counts more than ever if an entrepreneur wants to make it over the magical five-year hump and on into lasting business success. Numerous examples and exercises ensure that entrepreneurs understand how the writing game is played—and that they play it well. Unfortunately, most don't play this game well. Most business writers mistakenly believe their task is to inform. They write to fill an information gap or to update the reader on a particular project. Or they write about what's important to them. What these writers do not take into account is that the speed of today's work world has reached overdrive. The typical reader simply doesn't have time to ponder dense, poorly organized information and intuit the appropriate action. And readers don't give a hoot about what's important to the writer—they want to know what's in it for themselves. Business writers need to use all the tools at their command to persuade, inspire action, and in general move a project forward. This book is about how to be persuasive in two key skills in business: writing proposals and writing business plans. Step by step, Dennis Chambers illustrates the techniques of effective business writing, with numerous examples throughout. Whether the objective is to secure financing from an investor, lay out a marketing strategy, or secure a large contract, getting results requires crafting an effective structure for the proposal, and using words that sell. Chambers is an able guide in saving entrepreneurs time and undue effort while reaching the goal of long-term business success.

Download or read book Entrepreneur Magazine written by Conrad Berke and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-09-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to plan, write, design, and profit from your own advertising! There is nothing mysterious about creating high-quality, effective advertising-but there is a lot to learn. In this remarkable handbook, you'll discover how to plan and carry out an ad campaign that boosts sales, increases profits, and helps your business grow. Small-business advertising veteran Conrad Berke provides countless examples as he shows you step by step how to conceive, budget, create, and place ads that will have customers flocking to your place of business ready to spend money. You'll learn how to: * Plan for a 25% sales jump and a 33% leap in profits * Write powerful headlines and effective advertising copy that move people to action * Identify and target consumers who are most likely to buy your goods or services * Become a smart media buyer * Turn a $1,000 outlay into $15,000 worth of advertising ENTREPRENEUR Magazine is the banner publication of the Entrepreneur Magazine Group. It has the largest newsstand circulation of any business monthly with a total ABC audited circulation of 410,000. CONRAD BERKE, former head of advertising and associate publisher of Jewish Week, currently sells advertising space for New York's Daily News and teaches advertising at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has 40 years' experience writing, designing, and selling small-business advertising. Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: * The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor * The Entrepreneur Magazine Guide to Integrated Marketing * Making Money with Your Personal Computer * The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Answer Book * Small Business Legal Guide * Starting a Home-Based Business * Starting an Import/Export Business

Download or read book Architect Entrepreneur written by Eric W. Reinholdt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part narrative, part business book; Architect + Entrepreneur is filled with contemporary, relevant, fresh tips and advice, from a seasoned professional architect building a new business. The guide advocates novel strategies and tools that merge entrepreneurship with the practice of architecture and interior design. The Problem:Embarking on a new business venture is intimidating; you have questions. But many of the resources available to help entrepreneur architects and interior designers start their design business lack timeliness and relevance. Most are geared toward building colossal firms like SOM and Gensler using outdated methods and old business models. If you're an individual or small team contemplating starting a design business, this is your field guide; crafted to inspire action. The Solution:Using the lean startup methodology to create a minimum viable product, the handbook encourages successive small wins that support a broader vision enabling one to, "think big, start small, and learn fast." It's a unique take on design practice viewed through the lens of entrepreneurship and is designed to answer the questions all new business owners face, from the rote to the existential. Questions about: - Startup costs - Business models (old and new) - Marriage of business and design - Mindset - Branding & naming (exercises and ideas) - Internet marketing strategies - Passive income ideas - Setting your fee - Taxes - Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - Securing the work - Client relations - Software - Billing rates - Contracts Building a business isn't a singular act; it's a series of small steps. Using the outline found in Architect + Entrepreneur you can start today. The chapters are organized to guide you from idea to action. Rather than write a business plan you'll be challenged to craft a brand and you'll sell it using new technologies. Follow the guide sequentially and you'll have both the tools and a profitable small business.

Download or read book The Predictable Profits Playbook The Entrepreneur s Guide to Dominating Any Market And Staying On Top written by Charles E. Gaudet II and published by Charles E Gaudet II. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does an entrepreneur struggling through 80 hours a week only make half as much as another working no more than 40? What actions determine whether you end up with a small business pulling in five figures a year or a billion-dollar behemoth blazing a path to market dominance? As an entrepreneur, you're told the secret to success is working hard and fighting your way to the top. But what if this advice came from all the wrong people and places? What if there was more to the success stories you read in magazines, watch on TV or hear on the radio? Uncovering the true secret to success is marketing expert Charles E. Gaudet II's obsession. Gaudet discovered nearly every great organization - whether Apple, Nordstrom, Zappos, FedEx or Disney - follows a stunningly similar formula. And surprisingly, this approach defies the principles followed by most entrepreneurs running businesses today. Gaudet finally reveals why some businesses find growth opportunities in any economic situation and others balance on the edge of failure. His research shows many small business owners seek out success strategies from other small business owners and, for this reason, most remain small. Fortunately, today's advances in technology and media level the playing field, allowing small businesses to compete using a "big-business playbook," even when they don't have a big-business marketing budget. Inside The Predictable Profits Playbook, you'll learn time-tested lessons from leading small business owners and discover how to: Succeed in a down economy Become the preferred provider sought by only the best customers Swipe market share from your competitors Increase margins while growing demand Multiply your prospect-to-sales ratio Boost customer loyalty and build a raving fan base Create predictable and rising profits from one month to the next Become known as a business of excellence The Predictable Profits methodology avoids gimmicks, schemes or stunts - and you won't need to outspend your competitors. Instead, you'll focus on optimizing your existing marketing dollars and delivering the greatest advantages to your customers. Some entrepreneurs want to experience growth and others just wish for it. This book is for the motivated entrepreneur committed to making growth happen."

Download or read book The Entrepreneur s Guide to Getting Your Shit Together written by John Carlton and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as the Web became viable for entrepreneur marketers in the early 2000's, John Carlton surfaced as the go-to teacher for writing everything required to find prospects and persuade them to become eager customers...... as well as being The Dude for solving almost any biz problem holding things up. For decades, he was a notoriously-successful freelance direct-response copywriter with a global reputation for creating ads that brought home the bacon in almost every possible media (particularly direct mail, magazines and newspapers). And his street-savvy, close-the-deal style of salesmanship has now helped mobs of new entrepreneurs dominate niches online.This book is a collection of his best (and most recent) lesson-dense private articles to insider colleagues. What you're about to discover is the timeless advice and first-choice strategies that can help rookie entrepreneurs murder their competition, and veteran marketers re-establish dominance in their niche. No theory here. Every lesson is from the front trenches of the business world, where fortunes are won or lost through your ability to craft superior marketing in crowded business environments... and produce jaw-dropping results regardless of the economy, the competition, or any problem currently holding you up.If you have a great product or service, then shame on you if you don't learn and use the reality-tested, results-proven toolkit of advice and tactics packed into this sizzling tome. It's your best First Step to becoming an awesome entrepreneur, no matter where you are now or what your experience is or how broke/disadvantaged/clueless you are. You start here, and the greatest adventure of your life can finally begin in earnest.About the author:John Carlton's notorious 30-year career has become something of a legend among modern marketers. Just some of the highlights:He started out as the "bad boy" freelance copywriter snuck through the back doors of Los Angeles advertising agencies to do the hard-core sales jobs their staff writers couldn't pull off (because they didn't understand street-level salesmanship)... He penned game-changing packages for the largest direct response mailers in the world (like Rodale Press)... while single-handedly also completely transforming the way print ads worked in a number of markets (through sizzling long-copy ads the magazine owners hated, but which worked like crazy)... And he pioneered the now-common use of killer "old school" persuasive ad-writing models for online markets when the Web finally became a viable vehicle for entrepreneurs. John's been called "the most respected and ripped-off copywriting wizard alive", because so many of his ads are still used as templates by other marketers. (Yes, even the ads written before the Web became a viable marketing medium.) And for over a decade now, John has been the "go-to-teacher" for helping entrepreneurs learn how to craft ads that get results. His first book, "Kick-Ass Copywriting Secrets of a Marketing Rebel", is still cited as a primary resource by the best writers working today.