The Ultimate Guide to Strategic Marketing: Real World Methods for Developing Successful, Long-term Marketing Plans


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THE DEFINITIVE M ARKETING GUIDE FOR THE 21st CENTURY Everything You Need to Plan Your Strategy and Achieve Your Goals From Fortune 500 consultant Robert J. Hamper--the man who wrote the book on strategic marketing--comes a powerful new blueprint for growth in today's economy. Combining time-tested marketing tools with the latest global trends, this ready-to-use book guides you through every step of the strategy process. Packed with essential charts, forms, and fill-in questionnaires, it's the perfect planner for you and your organization--no matter how big or small. Each chapter allows you to adapt the proven principles of stragetic marketing to your company's specific needs, including a running case study so you can follow the process in action. Now more than ever, strategic marketing is the one business tool you need to succeed. LEARN HOW TO DEFINE your vision • TARGET your audience • EVALUATE your operations • PLAN your strategy • ACHIEVE your goals Based on a long-term study of proven integrated marketing plans, this step-by-step book from Fortune 500 consultant Robert J. Hamper is truly The Ultimate Guide to Strategic Marketing. Written specifically for business leaders looking for long-term strategies in a constantly evolving economy, it's the one marketing guide that lets you develop a plan that's simple, clear, practical, flexible, and workable--for you and your company. The book's interactive format makes it easy for you to: Engineer the planning process from conception to reality Conduct your own audits, self-assessments, SWOT analyses, and EA analyses Develop key market objectives--and make them happen Implement, monitor, and adjust your plan for the real world Solidify your strategy for longterm success Using the book's fill-in questionnaires and forms, you'll be able to adapt the greatest marketing tools of our time to your company's specific needs—step-by-step. Part I walks you through the entire planning process. Part II helps you evaluate the internal and external environment of your company, taking stock of resources and assessing strengths and weaknesses. Part III shows you how to develop a plan by identifying your marketing objectives and goals. Finally, Part IV gives you the tools to implement your plan using integrated computer models and other tracking techniques. Running case studies and countless examples will show you how to navigate a variety of scenarios. You'll also find helpful advice on global marketing, e-commerce, and other business tools such as product positioning, strategic gap, and strategic portfolio analysis. It's all here--everything you need to target your audience, market your product, and plan your future success--in The Ultimate Guide to Strategic Marketing.




Social Media Marketing


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Learn how to leverage the power of Social Media with Social Media Marketing today to help you achieve your business and online marketing goals! Have you ever asked - - can Social Media Marketing really help my business? - does Social Media Marketing work? - where do I learn Social Media Marketing? ... but finding it difficult to get the information you seek in order to grow your business? Have you always wanted to know - - what the best Social Media Marketing Strategies are - how Social Media Marketing can increase sales - how to implement an effective and proven Social Marketing plan ... but yet to find a resource that will show you how in a simple, step-by-step approach? If you answered "Yes" to any of the questions above, then this book is for you. In this definitive guide "Social Media Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Learn Step-by-Step the Best Social Media Strategies to Boost Your Business", you're about to discover how you can utilize the best Social Media platforms to your advantage when it comes to growing your business and to boost your income and net profits. ★★ Here is What You Will Learn: ★★ 1. What Social Media Marketing is and how it works 2. How to harness the power of the internet and Social Media to bring in a substantial income stream 3. How to begin your path on becoming a marketing guru on Social Media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram 4. Effective Social Media Strategies to apply for each of the most popular Social Media platforms being used today by your target market 5. The various Social Media Marketing tools you can implement now to help you gain profits ★★ Added Benefits of owning this book: ★★ Up-to-date and accurate information for the year 2018 and beyond A step-by-step and easy-to-understand guide that will motivate you to take action - starting today! ★★ PLUS: Bonus Section Included - How to use Facebook Ads to grow your business! ★★ By learning the lessons in this book, you will no longer be a beginner in the world of the internet and Social Media, but someone who now has the knowledge to leverage the power of Social Media to achieve success in your business endeavours. Your brand is your power, and it's time you learned how to promote it - and make it big online through Social Media Marketing. Don't wait any longer! Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to own this proven guide and begin applying Social Media Marketing to your business to get positive results.




How to Market Your School


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How to Take Monster Bucks will reveal the secret strategies of men who consistently bag older age-class deer each season. There is a price to pay to be the best at any sport, and trophy deer hunting is no different. But this book will save you thousands of hunting hours in your pursuit of monster bucks.




The Smart Marketing Book


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In today's complex commercial environments, marketing has become a central aspect to every successful business. Businesses need flexible, effective means of gaining commercial traction by managing their relationships with audiences, stakeholders and competitors. They require effective marketing and branding that move beyond the standard forms of brand orientation and commercial interaction. New marketing models must think smart to create innovative strategies which have long-term sustainable economic goals. The Smart Marketing Book is a practical, reliable and concise title that offers the core marketing principles - applicable for anyone who wishes to improve their organization's financial and creative values. It is a straightforward guide that avoids unnecessary and time-consuming practices. An illustrative handbook that covers marketing principles and topics through visual innovation. A credible statement to all marketers trying to source the most relevant strategies from a field cursed with infinite information.




Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing


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MASTER LOCAL SEO AND REACH THE RIGHT CUSTOMERS EVERY TIME With Google local services ads returning local businesses as results on more than a billion daily searches, Google Adwords expert Perry Marshall and lead generation expert Talor Zamir introduce you to the basic framework behind a successful local SEO campaign. From defining local search--often confused with paid search and search engine marketing--to local listing and reviews to social outreach and effective content development, this guide delivers the tools to build an entire local marketing campaign. You'll learn how to: Capture high-quality leads from Google AdWords, new competitors and even legacy platforms such as Bing in 48 hours Master the components of a high-converting campaign and get the most bang for your buck Harness mobile search advertising and Facebook ads for maximum results




Digital Marketing That Actually Works the Ultimate Guide


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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.




The Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing and Digital PR


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Ever wanted to get your business featured in publications like Forbes, National newspaper websites, magazines and trade journals? Perhaps you've noticed the rise of blogging and wondered how your business can tap into this ready-made network of highly influential people to boost your credibility and get in front of your perfect target audience? In this groundbreaking book, the superstar Digital PR team from Exposure Ninja break down step-by-step their process for getting any business in any market coverage in the most relevant online publications. Whether you want to build credibility to become an authority, drive traffic to your website or attract the sort of links that turbocharge ranking, this book will walk you through the process. You will discover: How businesses of all size - from 1 person to 100,000 people - can utilise Digital PR for free publicity. How to identify the perfect market to maximise the impact of your Digital PR. How to generate ideas and angles for stories that publications will bite your hand off for. The 'secret underworld' of Sponsored Content and how to utilise it for maximum profit. How to use Content Marketing to spread your reach through infographics, articles, and videos. How to find and connect with the most influential bloggers in your market and have them sing your praises publicly to their audience. How to use contests to boost your social media following (including one example that generated over 3,000 entries for less than the price of three cups of coffee). How and why to use live events to explode your online visibility (clue: the strategies in this section won't have even occurred to your competitors). How to create and manage a workable digital PR campaign in whatever time you have available, whether it's 20 minutes per week or 8 hours per day. How to use two hashtags on Twitter to 'unlock' a hidden world of journalists desperate to write about you (clue: see an example of this strategy where we sent 3 tweets which got us featured in Forbes, The Telegraph, and The Guardian websites in less than 2 weeks). What most businesses don't realise is that journalists, editors, and bloggers are crying out for good stories to write about. Provided that you understand exactly what they are looking for and how to position your business in a way that makes you interesting, rather than have to push push push, these gatekeepers will be coming to you asking for more! About The Authors Charlie and Luke head up Exposure Ninja's Digital PR team. With years of experience running campaigns for businesses in every imaginable market (and even some unimaginable ones!), they have developed a set of simple, easy-to-follow systems that mean any business can get the sort of visibility online that previously seemed out of reach.Tim Cameron-Kitchen is a 5-time bestselling author and Head Ninja at Exposure Ninja. Having helped tens of thousands of businesses to improve their online visibility and attract more customers from the Internet, he is one of the UK's leading Digital Marketing authorities and now runs the 65-strong digital marketing company Exposure Ninja. Who Is This Book For? Whether you are a solopreneur looking for free advertising or a large multinational wanting to develop a Digital PR strategy to tap into the new generation of online authorities, this book will guide you through the processes that Exposure Ninja uses day in, day out to get coverage for their clients in any market. From e-commerce stores to tradesmen, the range of strategies covered in this book means that whatever you sell and to whomever you sell it, you'll find the perfect angle for you.Hidden ExtrasThis book comes with FREE lifetime updates and a digital marketing review worth £198. Details inside.




Marketing Plans


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An imaginative, witty, original but deadly serious introduction to all the concepts you need in marketing today. Successful executives know that marketing as a process and an orientation is a necessity for understanding where a company needs to go and how to get there. It's not difficult to spot those organizations that have failed to adopt a marketing approach! In order for managers and students to quickly grasp the key principles, one of the world's leading marketing educators, Malcolm McDonald, has teamed up with expert cartoonist and educational designer, Peter Morris, to create this short, unique and powerful guide. Using black and white cartoons and graphics packed with ideas and examples, Marketing Plans: A Complete Guide in Pictures is a highly accessible primer that is both a rigorous and serious introduction to the subject for those discovering marketing for the first time, and a versatile companion for more experienced professionals. This book is based on the international bestseller Marketing Plans: How to Prepare Them, How to Use Them by Malcolm McDonald and Hugh Wilson (Wiley).




The Financial Times Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy


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Want to take your company to the next level? You need a roadmap, a strategy. Preferably one that is simple, workable and saleable. This book provides you with just that. It sets out a straightforward strategy development process, the ‘Strategy Pyramid’, and guides you through it. It uses a lively central case study throughout, as well as drawing on examples of how real businesses have developed winning strategies. Whether you are intent on growing your business, or setting out on your start-up, this book offers an uncomplicated, practical and readable guide on how to get the strategy you need for your business to succeed. It offers sound advice on the following areas: Setting goals and objectives Forecasting market demands Gauging industry competition Tracking competitive advantage Targeting the strategic gap Bridging the gap with business strategy Bridging the gap with corporate strategy Addressing risk and opportunity The FT Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy will help businesses of all sizes to chart and realise their growth ambitions.




The Definitive Guide to Strategic Content Marketing


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Understand content marketing best practice from a new perspective with exclusive insight and contributions from leading academics, experts, global thought leaders and influencers in the industry on key topics, to create a truly unique resource - including a foreword by Tom Goodwin and bonus online chapters. Marketers everywhere are talking about content, but not everyone is saying the same thing. Some professionals love content and believe it has revolutionized the practice of marketing. To others, it is mere hype: a new name for what marketers have always done. The Definitive Guide to Strategic Content Marketing brings together all these diverse perspectives, structuring them around useful key topics that provide insight into the multi-faceted nature of content marketing, weaving together different voices to present a balanced view of the subject. Grouping the discussion around relevant subjects such as content monetization, native advertising, visuals vs video, and the challenge of measuring results, this book allows readers to cherry-pick the most useful aspects of each discussion according to their interests and apply it to their own marketing initiatives. With a foreword written by Tom Goodwin (author of Digital Darwinism and EVP, Head of Innovation at Zenith USA) and containing contributions from brands such as GE, General Motors, HSBC, Football Association, Diageo and Pernod Ricard, plus agencies including Oglivy Group UK, Havas, Zenith, Vizeum, Accenture, this book is a truly unique resource. Insight and contributions from A-list industry professionals and influencers, include: Tim Lindsay, Bob Garfield, Bob Hoffman, Faris Yakob, Thomas Kolster, Rebecca Lieb, Tia Castagno, Scott Donaton, Rober Rose, David Berkowitz, Professors Mara Einstein, Mark Ritson and Douglas Rushkoff.