Marketing That Really Works

Marketing That Really Works
Author: Darren Contardo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-09-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692781562

Get the strategies you need to take your business to the next level, building your brand to number one status with tried-and-true techniques that can be applied to any venture. The result will be a business that grows and capitalizes on its potential to deliver meaningful value to customers. Author Darren C. Contardo has spent more than two decades as a marketer for businesses across the United States and Canada, building up sixteen top brands. Here he offers all the tactics he's used to create these best sellers. From initial business planning to product development, advertising, and Internet marketing, these strategies provide actionable insights to both solo entrepreneurs and marketing professionals in a CPG environment. The author shares mistakes he made, providing the information you need to avoid the average pitfalls. Unlike consultants, he's spent years in the trenches at companies, taking on personal risk to turn them around, and the lessons he's learned are invaluable. This essential guide, full of comprehensive and important advice, will save you time, money, and headaches over the course of your career. So gear up to take your business to the next level, enacting efficient and effective plans that really work.

All Marketers are Liars

All Marketers are Liars
Author: Seth Godin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591845335

The indispensable classic on marketing by the bestselling author of Tribes and Purple Cow. Legendary business writer Seth Godin has three essential questions for every marketer: “What’s your story?” “Will the people who need to hear this story believe it?” “Is it true?” All marketers tell stories. And if they do it right, we believe them. We believe that wine tastes better in a $20 glass than a $1 glass. We believe that an $80,000 Porsche is vastly superior to a $36,000 Volkswagen that’s virtually the same car. We believe that $225 sneakers make our feet feel better—and look cooler—than a $25 brand. And believing it makes it true. As Seth Godin has taught hundreds of thousands of marketers and students around the world, great marketers don’t talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story—a story we want to believe, whether it’s factual or not. In a world where most people have an infinite number of choices and no time to make them, every organization is a marketer, and all marketing is about telling stories. Marketers succeed when they tell us a story that fits our worldview, a story that we intuitively embrace and then share with our friends. Think of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, or Fiji water, or the iPod. But beware: If your stories are inauthentic, you cross the line from fib to fraud. Marketers fail when they are selfish and scurrilous, when they abuse the tools of their trade and make the world worse. That’s a lesson learned the hard way by telemarketers, cigarette companies, and sleazy politicians. But for the rest of us, it’s time to embrace the power of the story. As Godin writes, “Stories make it easier to understand the world. Stories are the only way we know to spread an idea. Marketers didn’t invent storytelling. They just perfected it.”

Digital Marketing That Actually Works the Ultimate Guide

Digital Marketing That Actually Works the Ultimate Guide
Author: Melissa Byers
Publisher: That Actually Works
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780983028642

Digital Marketing That Actually Works is your roadmap to understanding and implementing digital marketing that gets results. This book takes you from digital marketing strategy to channels to tactics to tools to measurement to prioritization - giving you a strong foundation in how to use digital marketing to grow your business, brand or organization. This book is for business professionals and marketers who want a strong grasp of the core concepts in digital marketing - what they are, how they work and how to implement them for growth. Covering strategy, best practices and implementation, this is The Ultimate Guide with no hype - just solid strategies, tactics and tools that actually work. Who can benefit from this book? - MARKETERS AND AGENCIES - Wanting to implement digital marketing best practices and round out their digital knowledge. - CEOS AND EXECUTIVES - Needing a solid understanding of how to strategically use digital to fuel their growth. - ENTREPRENEURS AND STARTUPS - Wanting to harness the power of digital marketing to grow their business. - BRAND MANAGERS - Needing to understand how to best use digital marketing strategically and drive better results. - AGENCIES - Wanting to provide lasting value for their clients with a comprehensive approach to digital. - BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS - Wanting to have a solid understanding of the fastest growing area of marketing and business growth. - DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TEAMS - Looking to be sure that core areas of digital are used strategically to fuel business growth. This book covers the core aspects of digital marketing: - How to build a plan - Creating a digital marketing strategy - Assessing the digital landscape - Defining your target audience for digital - Digital content strategy and optimization - Social Media Marketing - Digital Advertising - SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - Websites - Conversational marketing (reviews, influencers, advocates and more) - Email marketing - CRM - Mobile marketing (including Messenger and Chatbots) - Digital marketing measurement - Digital marketing analytics and optimization - Digital ROI (return on investment) - Prioritizing digital marketing - Building your digital marketing plan. If you want to take your digital marketing knowledge and results to the next level read this book! Based on over 10 years of working with businesses on digital marketing, Digital Marketing that Actually Works is a comprehensive guide to everything a savvy business professional or marketer should understand about digital marketing. There is no hype. No gimmicks. Just clear, practical, actionable content based on what actually works to grow businesses. As a BONUS this book includes a FREE DOWNLOAD action planner and additional resources to help you implement what you learn.

R.E.D. Marketing

R.E.D. Marketing
Author: Greg Creed
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140022330X

Create breakthrough marketing campaigns by harnessing the power of R.E.D. Marketing: a transparent and flexible methodology straight from marketing powerhouse Yum! Brands. Sidestep the marketing books, courses, and even TED talks that offer hypothetical explanations that sound sensible and embrace the proven, systematic approach of R.E.D. Marketing, which the recent CEO and current CMO of Yum! Brands applied to lead Taco Bell and KFC to double digit growth. This book, filled with simple frameworks and engaging stories, will help everyone in your company understand what really works for driving sustainable brand growth and business success. In 2011, Greg Creed had just been elevated from President to CEO of Taco Bell, a brand in deep distress at the time. It was on his shoulders to turn things around quickly along with co-author and CMO, Ken Muench. Together, they developed the R.E.D (Relevance, Ease, Distinctiveness) method. It’s simple methodology does not require complicated terms and a PhD to understand, it’s actually quite simple—marketing works in three very different ways: Relevance—Is it relevant to the marketplace? Ease—Is it easy to access and use? Distinction—Does it stand out from competition? By combining actual examples from Yum! and other recognizable brands of every size around the world with the latest findings in marketing, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, and the author’s own experience marketing three different brands across 120 countries, your brand can set and achieve a truly breakthrough marketing campaign utilizing R.E.D Marketing.

Playing to Win

Playing to Win
Author: Alan G. Lafley
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 142218739X

Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.

Youtility

Youtility
Author: Jay Baer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101633883

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.

Mischief Marketing

Mischief Marketing
Author: Ray Simon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In-your-face and with a definite entrepreneurial edge, Mischief Marketing shows readers how to employ highly unusual and creative marketing strategies and plans to achieve their business or career goals. Filled with tons of creative, off-the-beaten-path tactics, lessons, and tips culled from the notorious exploits and ingenious high jinx pulled by many famous and successful folk, from Steven Spielberg to Estee Lauder and Mother Teresa.

Chief Marketing Officers at Work

Chief Marketing Officers at Work
Author: Josh Steimle
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484219317

Read 29 in-depth, candid interviews with people holding the top marketing roles within their organizations. Interviewees include CMOs and other top marketers from established companies and organizations—such as Linda Boff of GE, Jeff Jones of Target, and Kenny Brian of the Harvard Business School—to startups—such as Matt Price of Zendesk, Seth Farbman of Spotify, and Heather Zynczak of Domo. Interviewer Josh Steimle (contributor to business publications such as Forbes, Mashable, and TechCrunch and founder of an international marketing agency) elicits a bounty of biographical anecdotes, professional insights, and career advice from each of the prominent marketers profiled in this book. Chief Marketing Officers at Work: Tells how CMOs and other top marketers from leading corporations, nonprofits, government entities, and startups got to where they are today, what their jobs entail, and the skills they use to thrive in their roles. Shows how top marketing executives continuously adapt to changes in technology, language, and culture that have an impact on their jobs. Locates where the boundaries between role of CMOs and the roles of CEOs, CTOs, and COOs are blurring. Explores how the CMO decisions are now driven by data rather than gut feelings. The current realities in marketing are clearly revealed in this book as interviewees discuss the challenges of their jobs and share their visions and techniques for breaking down silos, working with other departments, and following the data. These no-holds-barred interviews will be of great interest to all those who interact with marketing departments, including other C-level executives, managers, and other professionals at any level within the organization.

Influencer Marketing

Influencer Marketing
Author: Duncan Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750686006

For those involved in marketing and sales, this book offers essential analysis of how to identify who has influence, how they apply it, and how marketers can turn it to their advantage. This work is one of the first books to give an overview of one of the fastest growing marketing techniques to have emerged in the last ten years.

Promotional Marketing

Promotional Marketing
Author: Roddy Mullin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018
Genre: Marketing
ISBN: 9780815359951

Edition numbering starts over again with the title change; the earlier edition is called sixth edition but is the first under the new title.