Great Marketing

Bestselling author and futurist Mark Schaefer explains why community is a vastly overlooked marketing opportunity for most organizations. He explains how three major trends are colliding in a way that makes brand communities the future of marketing strategy.

Four-time New York Times best-selling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands. In this lively, practical, and inspiring audiobook, Gary dissects every current major social media platform so that anyone, from a plumber to a professional ice skater, will know exactly how to amplify his or her personal brand on each.

Consuming and performing the exercises in this book can transform individuals, teams, and organizations from undifferentiated sellers into high-performing experts who truly enable buyers, resulting in mutually successful outcomes that endure.

This book is a must listen for business owners, leadership teams and marketers who want to stop acting tactically and start making big strategic moves to create unfair advantages in their businesses. Marketing is one of the most misunderstood but crucial areas of business. Most of us are drowning in the ever-expanding lists of marketing tactics and do not understand that acting strategic is the solution to gain business breakthrough, simplification, efficiency and effectiveness.

This groundbreaking book offers extraordinary insight into the greatest mystery in sales: how the very best salespeople consistently and successfully influence change in others, inspiring their customers to say yes.

The sixth edition of Hey Whipple, Squeeze This offers a new take on the rapidly evolving industry of creative advertising. Creativity—while critical—is no longer enough to succeed. Updating all the classic creativity training from the first five editions, this updated version now provides the necessary tools to navigate the field’s changing technical and social media landscapes. From learning how to tell brand stories to creating content for Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, Whipple will help sharpen your writing chops, enhance your creativity, and raise the level of your work.

Great Demo! provides sales and presales staff with a method to dramatically increase their success in closing business through substantially improved software demonstrations. It draws upon the experiences of thousands of demonstrations, both delivered and received from vendors and customers. The distinctive "Do the Last Thing First" concept generates a "Wow!" response from customers.

Hey Whipple, Squeeze This has helped generations of young creatives make their mark in the field. From starting out and getting work, to building successful campaigns, you gain a real-world perspective on what it means to be great in a fast-moving, sometimes harsh industry. You'll learn how to tell brand stories and create brand experiences online and in traditional media outlets, and you'll learn more about the value of authenticity, simplicity, storytelling, and conflict.

Brian Tracy shares the most important principal for sales success he has discovered in 30 years of training more than 500,000 sales professionals in 23 countries. Based on his detailed discussions with top salespeople and keen observations of their methods, these guidelines address both the inner and outer games of selling. Each chapter is dedicated to one principle, and all are time - and field - tested to boost sales and success.

The Heart of Hospitality is the essential guide to creating exceptional customer service and hospitality for guests of all generations, including millennials, boomers, and more.

In How to be a Great Real Estate Agent, Joe Rand shows you how to take a client-oriented approach to every aspect of your business: How to generate leads by providing creative services to people, rather than trying to manipulate them, How to turn your boring presentations relying on an outdated value proposition into engaging client consultations explaining the core services you actually provide. How to Be a Great Real Estate Agent will change the way you think about the industry, making you a better real estate agent - and a better person.

“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one. Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale. In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea.

This booklet from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade, helps authors love the project they most love to hate - writing a book proposal. She has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process. Now, there is no need to take expensive, time-consuming classes or spend hours reading a tome to find the voice and format that will propel an author's idea from a dream to reality.

Delivering a fresh perspective, Yohn's What Great Brands Do teaches an innovative brand-as-business strategy that enhances brand identity while boosting profit margins, improving company culture, and creating stronger stakeholder relationships. Drawing from 25 years of consulting work with such top brands as Frito-Lay, Sony, Nautica, and Burger King, Yohn explains key principles of her brand-as-business strategy.

Navy Ace pilot and TOPGUN instructor Bill Driscoll demonstrates how his own life-or-death aerial dogfights - and the preparation for them - can help guide high-risk corporate decisions. Interviews with over 200 senior executives and 26 Ace pilots, as well as strategies from Driscoll's own highly successful second career in commercial real estate, reinforce the consistent patterns underlying exceptional performance under pressure.

If you are looking to improve the overall quality of the content on your website and you want to improve not only the visitor engagement on your site but also your overall website traffic, this audiobook was written with you in mind. In this audiobook you will find a variety of techniques and methods that you can use to reach your target audience and engage them in ways you have never thought of before.

In Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way, Ron Karr outlines a repeatable process based on the powerful idea that great sellers lead relationships in the same way that great leaders sell ideas. This customer-focused mindset is the key to Ron Karr's proven leadership selling process. Using 20 years of research with companies of all sizes, Karr reveals what great sellers do, and shows how anyone can implement the same powerful principles.

Whether you're a manager, owner, or employee, Customer Service Training 101 gets you up to speed fast. The completely revised and updated third edition addresses every aspect of face-to-face, phone, online, social media, and self-service interactions. Using scenarios, guidelines, and practice exercises, this inspiring training manual explains what to say and do, what to avoid, and why interactions go astray.

Read the reviews. Read the table of contents. If you are looking for ways to increase your sales, you have found THE AUDIOBOOK you are looking for. Period! After listening to this audiobook, you will learn: how to build a 'burning desire' within your customers for your products and services, how to create urgency: Reasons for your customers to purchase now, shorten your sales cycle, trial close, assumptive close, takeaway close, third-Party close, and more.

For those unfamiliar with copywriting, this article will provide an overview of the subject and explain why it is in such great demand today. The field of copywriting is vast and growing at a rapid pace. Copywriting can be defined as the process of presenting a creative message to a consumer. According to the book Copywriting, copywriting is founded on three essential ideas. When writing to a consumer, there must be some level of interaction between the customer and the vendor. You must then ensure that you communicate the benefits to the buyer up to the point of purchase.