141 Books found for subject: Marketing / Sales

What makes things popular?

If you said advertising, think again. People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?

Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger has spent the last decade answering these questions. He’s studied why New York Times … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jonah Berger | Subject: Marketing / Sales

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.

But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges:

Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight.

Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Pink | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Written by the world’s leading thinkers on brand strategy, this book looks at what Asian and emerging market brands need to do to succeed in international markets and the challenges they face when competing with western brands.

Content: Book | Authors: Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, Nirmalya Kumar | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Why do your customers buy from you rather than from your competitors? If you think the answer is your superior products, think again.

Products are important, of course. For decades, businesses sought competitive advantage almost exclusively in activities related to new product creation. They won by building bigger factories, by finding cheaper raw materials or labor, or by coming up with more efficient ways to move … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Niraj Dawar | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Companies are forever being more creative in their branding strategies, building identities ranging from the warm-and-fuzzy to the ultra-cool and edgy. But it seems that many of these enterprises forgot that a brand, at its heart, is a promise to deliver. If the brand experience does not live up to that promise, customers will take their business elsewhere. “Brand Real” is a business strategy guide … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Laurence Vincent | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Pulling from a unique ten year growth study involving 50,000 brands, Jim Stengel shows how the world’s 50 best businesses—as diverse as Method, Red Bull, Lindt, Petrobras, Samsung, Discovery Communications, Visa, Zappos, and Innocent—have a cause and effect relationship between financial performance and their ability to connect with fundamental human emotions, hopes, values and greater purposes. In fact, over the 2000s an investment … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jim Stengel | Subject: Marketing / Sales

A common-sense course in how to write advertising copy that gets people to buy your product or service, written by a plain-speaking veteran mail order copywriter in 1960.

Best part: 100 “archetypal” headlines that people are still using in various forms today to create new controls (e.g., “When Doctors Feel Rotten, This is What They Do”).

Content: Book | Author: Vic Schwab | Subject: Advertising

In A Seat at the Table, Marc Miller shows that selling is based on the simple concept that the only thing a customer desires is value. The value this book will have for salespeople is that in the discussions of the customers need for value, Miller guides the reader step by step how to provide strategic help for their customers and deliver new and different … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Marc Miller | Subject: Marketing / Sales

The old way of selling was to create safe, ordinary products and combine them with mass marketing. The new way is to create truly innovative products and build the marketing right in. But how does a brand make the transition from old to new? According to advertising gurus Alex Bogusky and John Winsor, it starts with the realization that the message is not the product, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alex Bogusky, John Winsor | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities–businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government–do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter Block | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

Journalist Conley examines the implications of brand-centric marketing in an incisive investigation that illustrates how defenseless consumers are against advertising—on any given day, they are assaulted by 3,000 to 5,000 ads and branding stratagems that subtly dictate every aspect of their lives. Harnessing scientific innovations, branding has become increasing insidious—whether it is the Xbox audio logo or Southwest Airlines’ incorporation of the fasten seatbelt sound … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Lucas Conley | Subject: Marketing / Sales

We stand at the beginning of a consumer-centric age–an era with potentially enormous returns for leaders in marketing, advertising and media–if they get their approach right. The new media environment is “always on,” digitally accessible to audiences from anywhere at any time, and responsive to their control. As consumers get used to this, the world of marketing is shifting to one of constant experimentation, fine-grained … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Christopher Vollmer, Geoffrey Precourt | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now.

When consumers you ve never met are rating your company … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Dan Ariely | Subjects: Management, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

The dizzying barrage of new marketing technologies is leading to confusion, the rule of “hype,” and bad marketing investments and decisions. Beyond “e” is designed to help sales and marketing executives look beyond current e-business fads to understand the fundamentals that will distinguish sales and marketing leaders in the future. The book provides a blueprint for using advances in technology—including but not limited to the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Stephen Diorio | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales

Reichheld, a director of Bain & Co., a strategy consulting firm in Boston, takes an old-fashioned concept?loyalty?and shows its relevance to customer retention and long-term profit growth. His position seems obvious, but its import has been lost amid the rapid turnover in the current business climate. He notes that major companies replace half their customers in five years, half their employees in four and a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Frederick F. Reichheld | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales

A complete and practical, how-to exploration of each step in the strategy, opportunity identification, design, testing, launch, and profit-management stages of new-product development. Revision of over 75% of the book … offers a managerial focus – with an emphasis on understanding the issues and solving the problems by implementing a variety if state-of-the-art methods and perspectives … integrates marketing, R&D, production engineering, and financial … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Glen L. Urban, John R. Hauser | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Goldstein, Martin and Cialdini meld social psychology, pop culture and field research to demonstrate how the subtle addition, subtraction or substitution of a word, phrase, symbol or gesture can significantly influence consumer behavior. Interspersing references to Britney Spears, the Smurfs and Sex and the City with more academic concepts such as loss aversion and the scarcity principle, the authors illustrate the simple and surprising approaches … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, Steve J. Martin | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

Underperforming salespeople are perhaps the greatest cause of frustration to sales executives and financial loss to business owners. The cost of hiring and keeping a bad salesperson can range from six to seven figures annually. To make matters worse, many companies waste money by trying to train sales skills in people who will never improve. Research shows that the most important factor for success is … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Chris Croner, Richard Abraham | Subjects: Human Resources, Marketing / Sales

Debit or credit? Paper or plastic? Lease or buy? Public or private school? Have you made the right choices? Probably not, according to the important new research on the science of choice. In clear and entertaining style, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness provides a crash course on how and why humans are prone to make bad choices, and what we can do … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler | Subject: Marketing / Sales