Customer Marketing

Books on marketing analytics tend to be quite academic, with an emphasis on precision and statistical significance that are rarely ever achievable in the corporate world. Having worked in marketing for companies of all sizes, I realize the sharp divide between how analytics are taught and how they are used. Decisions - even in very large companies - are usually made quickly with very imperfect data.

UnSelling is about everything but the sell. We put all of our focus on the individual purchase transaction, while putting the rest of our business actions second. We've become blind to customer service, support, branding, experiences, and even product quality. Sixty percent of a purchasing decision is made before a customer even contacts you. We have funnel vision, and it needs to stop. UnSelling is about the big picture: creating repeat customers, not one-time buyers. Create loyal clients that refer others, not faceless numbers.

In The Innovative Seller: Keeping Pace In an AI and Customer-Centric World, veteran sales leader and trainer Jake Dunlap delivers an expert playbook for sales that offers out-of-the-box and creative answers for the problems and questions that salespeople face every day. Fun and motivational, the book walks you through effective strategies for dealing with common challenges, like LinkedIn prospecting, sales transparency, cold calling, and others.

Leading marketing practitioner and thought leader Joe Federer draws on evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroanatomy, and psychology, as well as more than a decade of hands-on experience, to explain why people act so differently in various online spaces and what they are seeking from participating in each one.

This hands-on guide covers topics unique to this segment, including cost justification, prospecting and lead generation, matching tools to the sales funnel, building, B2B search engine optimization, social media monitoring, social media policy development, long-term client relationships, gaining stakeholder support, building a more transparent organization, and what's coming next.

Jobs to Be Done gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a road map for discovering new markets, new products, and new services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.

Marketing experts and professors Annie Wilson and Ryan Hamilton, through dozens of cases, provide insight into how brands can drive growth by attracting new segments without alienating or losing their current customers. They also explore how brands can more strategically select and manage customer segments to drive high velocity growth and symbiotic segment relationships.

The essential guide to marketing and building your business on Instagram - today's hottest social media platform. If you're serious about marketing, you need to tap into the power of the world's most popular photo-sharing platform. This guide offers a road map to achieving Instagram marketing success.

No Thanks, I'm Just Looking gives anyone the inside scoop on how to skyrocket their selling career with a system of easy-to-learn, practical moneymaking steps. By saving countless hours of trial-and-error experience, listeners will be able to focus on the things that really work. Considered to be retail guru Harry J. Friedman's personal collection of proven selling techniques, No Thanks, I'm Just Looking includes all the tips and humorous anecdotes that have made him retail's most sought-after consultant.

First 100 Customers: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap to Success is a step-by-step guide designed to help entrepreneurs attract, engage, and retain their first customers. Packed with actionable strategies, this book covers everything from crafting a compelling value proposition and leveraging social media to building strong customer relationships and scaling your business. Whether you're launching a startup or growing an existing venture, this roadmap provides the tools and insights you need to achieve sustainable success in today’s competitive market.

This book will teach you how to eliminate what customers hate and lead your market and customer satisfaction.

The Big Data-Driven Business: How to Use Big Data to Win Customers, Beat Competitors, and Boost Profits makes the case that big data is for real, and more than just big hype. The audiobook uses real-life examples - from Nate Silver to Copernicus, and Apple to Blackberry - to demonstrate how the winners of the future will use big data to seek the truth.

Prospect the Sandler Way shares 30 core principles for mastering stress-free lead development by phone and over the Internet, in accordance with the selling system developed by David H. Sandler. Includes updated strategies on 21st-century topics like conducting effective online pre-call research, and using LinkedIn to generate referrals.

62 Free Ways to Grow Your Business Profits will stimulate hundreds of breakthrough ideas for you to ponder. Quite simply, the program takes a revolutionary approach to marketing that is more powerful than any other marketing force you've ever encountered before! Jay Levinson is like a walking encyclopedia of marketing insight.

In their best-selling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production, principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption, showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption.

Your experiences and expertise can make a profound difference in someone else's life. But to create a profitable business from your stories, you need to say good-bye to rapid strategy switching and hello to a simple plan for growing your audience. In this entertaining how-to guide, marketing mentor Nikki Nash reveals a straightforward, three-step process for generating audience growth and consistent revenue.

With the explosion of direct-to-consumer online retailers, things have been heating up in the eCommerce industry. The differentiators of yesterday have become table stakes for modern brands - those that want to defend their position or gain market share will need to level up from foundational practices to advanced tactics. Opting in to Optimization provides a collection of principles that, when applied in a disciplined manner, has proven to help eCommerce leaders capitalize on unprecedented market demand and build sustainable, thriving businesses.

In The Power of Value Selling: The Gold Standard to Drive Revenue and Create Customers for Life, sought-after trainer and sales leader Julie Thomas delivers an exciting new take on buyer-centric selling to modern buyers. In the book, you'll learn value-based selling techniques to become a trusted business advisor who instills confidence in buying decisions despite unpredictable business environments.

David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.

Leading the Customer-Led Revolution is for brave business leaders who are charged with driving customer-led change in their organisation. It offers a framework for thinking and a plan of action to help your business become a truly customer-led organisation.