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Agency and economics. It's that simple. Most creative, design, technical, digital, marketing, and advertising-type agency owners face constant daily challenges when trying to scale their agency business. Spencer Gallagher and Peter Hoole guide you through the growth journey with their intimate experience, having over the last 13 years helped thousands of agencies scale. Having been involved at every possible stage of the agency growth journey, they are confident that this book has all the information you need to help build a best-in-class agency.

From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy. Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for...

Imagine being able to cut away your marketing confusion in one swift move. No more smoke and mirrors. No more cashflow feasts or famines. No more wasting money on advertising that doesn't work. No more cold prospecting of any kind. Imagine instead, a steady flow of highly qualified leads who seek you out, happily paying higher prices than you ever thought possible. This isn’t pie in the sky. Used by hundreds of top-performing businesses and thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners, the Client Stampede Marketing Formula will work for your business.

Are you looking to take your business to new heights with the up to date social media marketing strategies? Learn where to prioritize your time so you can maximize traffic and exposure to your business? Discover what to optimize on social media platforms to create repeatable business systems that automatically generate customers? Social media marketing is one the key difference maker between a Fortune 500 business and a local city business. It provides you the tools to give your business the exposure to reach millions at the convenience of anywhere in the world.

Training to be a sought after hairstylist? There are many secrets to making it to the top, that they don't teach you in the classroom. Graduating from school was the easy part. In order to build a thriving business, you have to do more than just cut hair; you have to market yourself and your services to get the job you want and become a successful entrepreneur.

A 2022 SOVAS Awards nominee for Best Business Audiobook - It’s time to find your marketing rhythm! Most real estate agents struggle with marketing. After all, we sell homes. There’s no reason selling our services should come naturally. Shortcuts won’t cut it: purchased leads often lead to random results.

This second edition of contains over 25 new interviews and case histories, two completely new chapters, introduces a new typology of 12 different kinds of Challengers, has extensive updates of the main chapters, and a range of new exercises.

You can talk about theories, concepts, and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy, and everything in between. My boss is driving...

Calling upon over 40 years of marketing experience, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout use vivid examples and fascinating anecdotes to explain the keys to today's tough, competitive marketplace. Learn how to avoid the danger of ego and arrogance, the need to understand trends, and many other crucial marketing lessons, as Ries and Trout point you solidly in the direction of success.

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal...

Think of the last great article you read or the last great speech you heard. Chances are, if you remember one key message, you also remember one compelling story. That's because the best content starts with a story. When it comes to marketing, the best business content starts with a story the audience cares about, not the brand's message about what it wants to sell them.

When Amazon introduced the Kindle, it changed the publishing world, and the gates came crumbling down for millions of people who had stories to tell. Now, self-publishing supports thousands of authors who have cracked the marketing code. What do they know that you don’t? Short answer: marketing and promotion. The best part of marketing and promotion is you don’t need to have a ton of money or time to make it work.

While you may already be sick of the phrase "thought leader", the truth is, there aren't that many of them in our industry. Thought leaders don't write content that any other agency could claim. Thought leaders don't write about anything and everything, and thought leaders don't compete on price. Experts are afforded the highest level of confidence and trust because they have a depth of knowledge that can't be denied or easily replicated. Why wouldn't we capitalize on that? Agencies are at the cusp of a huge shift. You can own an authority position that will future-proof your agency.

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.

Maybe you thought how to develop a desirable community. But nothing works. You just need more knowledge in this area. With more than 2.3 billion people using Facebook every month, and nearly 1.6 billion users every day, that huge, global audience means Facebook is a key marketing platform for just about every business. Facebook offers up a unique opportunity for marketers to augment their organic efforts.

In The Naming Book, Bullhorn Creative founder and partner Brad Flowers presents a clear framework for crafting and choosing the name that sticks. With a five-step blueprint that takes you from brainstorming to trademarking, this book is the ultimate guidebook to naming anything. You'll learn how to: set clear goals for your name and brand before you start, craft a brainstorming list based on your business mission, build a brand unique to you by creating your own word, find the balance between "cool" and clear, and narrow down your list of names with five easy tests.

In today's Internet era, the importance of having an online presence cannot be overstated and one of the Internet's biggest platforms is YouTube. The website sees roughly 15 billion visitors a month, which offers a lot of opportunity for anyone who can find a successful concept. Whether you are an individual looking to build a channel on YouTube to make a career for yourself out of it, or you are representing a business and want to grow a channel to support your company, finding a following on YouTube can be rewarding.

Do you want more sales? Do you want more website traffic? Do you want to build your own personal influencer brand? But if you want to build a social media marketing plan that is both cost-effective and profitable, then you need to realize that online marketing is more than simply picking the right ad product or platform…social media marketing is all about having a multi-platform mindset.

Facebook is the new advertising platform of the digital age that is dominating the advertising industry. With over two billion users onboard, Facebook allows you scale to your specific target in a way no other forms of media can do. Unfortunately, Facebook ads can be categorized as the rocket science of the digital marketing industry. To create effective and cost-efficient ads is a very tedious and convoluted process.

Most people like beer, and you may love the idea of creating your own beer and starting your own microbrewery, but you have no idea where to get started. If you want to start your own microbrewery so you can be in more control of your life, then this audiobook is for you.