Stop Marketing, Start Selling


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Your guide to doubling online leads, customers, and revenue. The basic value proposition of any business is to help people get what they want. A website is no different. Nobody watches TV for the commercials, or visits your website to check out your latest marketing campaigns. If they're on your site, your marketing worked. Now it's time to help them get what they came for. The partners at The Good (http: //thegood.com), an ecommerce and lead generation advisory, have condensed their learnings from over a decade in the ecommerce space. Their battle tested process for growing online revenues for brands large and small is shared in this comprehensive and actionable path to doubling online leads, customers and revenue. This book offers a step by step guide to making websites that convert. "In the age of empowered customers the best possible business case is to put the needs of your customers first. This book is a practical, no-nonsense approach to doing just that. It may not always tell you what you want to hear, but it certainly tells you what you need to hear." -Gerry McGovern, Author, CEO of Customer Carewords "When you invite guests to your house, you want them to enjoy themselves and leave happy. You should have the same mindset with your website. In this book, The Good shows you how to create a customer experience that converts." -Stephen Lease, Founder, Simplify & Go




Stop Posting! Start Marketing!: How Successful Companies Market Themselves on Social Media, While Others Just Post


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Marketing hasn't changed and it never will. Most people fail at digital marketing because they don't grasp this concept. A lot of businesses waste their time posting content that doesn't impact their business, drive revenue, or grow their customer base. Businesses though, large and small, can make a major impact using social media, but it all starts with a sound marketing strategy.This book will set you up for social media marketing success by walking you through a 5 Step digital marketing strategy that can be used for any business or organization. This strategy was developed using classic marketing concepts and techniques that successful companies have been using for decades. If you want to build or grow an audience, drive more revenue, create better content, or ensure your social media marketing campaigns are working properly - then this book is for you.In Stop Posting! Start Marketing. you'll learn how to take those boring old posts and turn them into a powerful marketing tool that will help grow your business!




Stop Acting Like a Seller and Start Thinking Like a Buyer


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Praise for stop acting like a seller and Start Thinking Like a Buyer "Stop Acting Like a Seller and Start Thinking Like a Buyer is a book that teaches you emphatically that 'words matter.' If you want to set yourself apart from others, whether you're selling a product or a concept, this is a book to read. Not only will you learn how to prepare for sales success, you will learn how to be far more effective by thinking like a buyer." —Theresa Martinez, Brand Director, Roche Laboratories "This book shares a great commonsense approach to developing a new sales attitude and mindset that will work no matter what you're selling. Jerry has successfully articulated a powerful and unique formula for sales greatness." —Duggar Baucom, head basketball coach, Virginia Military Institute "This is a book for people who truly want to have incredible success in sales. Thinking like a buyer is the most powerful way to help customers and prospects think differently about you and your product. This book shows you exactly how to make that happen in a step-by-step way. If you want to learn how to guarantee your success in selling or influencing, this is a book you must read." —Dan C. Weilbaker, PhD, McKesson Professor of Sales, Northern Illinois University "A mind shift takes place when you read Acuff's book and realize 'it's all about them.' The book helps you understand human psychology and behavior and gives you the practical tips, encouragement, and examples to help you stand out and be valued by your customers regardless of what you're selling." —Charlene Prounis, Managing Partner, Flashpoint Medica




Maximize Your Social


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Create and maintain a successful social media strategy for your business Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create—and execute upon—their social media for business road map. Explains the evolution of social media and the absolute necessity for creating a social media strategy Outlines preparation for, mechanics of, and maintenance of a successful social media strategy Author Neal Schaffer was named a Forbes Top 30 Social Media Power Influencer, is the creator of the AdAge Top 100 Global Marketing Blog, Windmill Networking, and a global social media speaker Maximize Your Social will guide you to mastery of social media marketing strategies, saving you from spending a chunk of your budget on a social media consultant. Follow Neal Schaffer's advice, and you'll be able to do it yourself—and do it right.




Stop Marketing. Be Remarkable!


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Stop Marketing. Be Remarkable! Being Remark-able = providing exceptional service, creating trust & driving sales. It begins and ends with people-powered reviews! We all know that positive online reviews are the new catalyst for making the phone ring. Now you just need to learn the 5 Rules to 5-star success that will transform your employees into your most highly effective marketing assets and catapult your growth potential. STOP MARKETING. Be Remarkable! shows you how to create a system that drives your entire team to be remarkable, earning you powerful online reviews while simultaneously reducing your marketing budget and achieving record-breaking growth and profits. The results extend to areas beyond the bottom line: Higher customer retention Higher employee satisfaction Improved employee retention Increased referral business Improved company culture More productive workforce Those same results are not beyond your reach. STOP MARKETING. Be Remarkable's easy-to-follow rules will help you leave your competition behind."




Storyscaping


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How to use powerful tools to engage customers with your brand Marketers, technologists, and corporate leaders are looking for ways to more effectively connect consumers with their brand. Storyscapes introduces "storyscaping" as a way to create immersive experiences that solve the challenge of connecting brands and consumers. This book describes a powerful new approach to advertising and marketing for the digital age that involves using stories to design emotional and transactional experiences for customers, both online and offline. Each connection inspires engagement with another, so the brand becomes part of the customer's story. Authors Gaston Legorburu and Darren McColl explain how marketers can identify and define the core target audience segment, define your brand's purpose, understand the emotional desires of your consumers, and more. Shows how to map how the consumer engages with the category and product/service Explains how to develop an organizing idea and creative plan for an immersive storyscape experience Defines the role of marketing channels around the organizing idea Establishes how technology can be applied to the experience Learn how to measure, optimize, and evolve the customer experience through the use of strong narratives that compel consumers to buy into your brand. www.storyscaping.com




Stop Selling and Start Listening!


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Creative marketing strategies for business owners and sales professionals illustrating the use of technology to attract, capture, convert and retain customers. Includes 7 key ingredients that make up a Top Producing salesperson, and a guide to developing a "Personal Roadmap for Success". 14 Chapters include 31 specific marketing strategies, website strategies including audio and video, autoresponders, e-zines, and generating laser-targeted traffic. Step-by-step guide to creating a profitable small-business or sales marketing plan.




Breakthrough Marketing Plans


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Almost every company creates a marketing plan each year, and many spend hundreds of employee hours researching, preparing and presenting their tomes to senior executives. But most marketing plans are a waste of time; they are too long, too complicated and too dense. They end up sitting on a shelf, unread and unrealized. Breakthrough Marketing Plans is an essential tool for people who create marketing plans and people who review them. The book provides simple, clear frameworks that are easy to apply, and highlights why marketing plans matter, where they go wrong and how to create a powerful plan that will help build a strong, profitable business.




The End of Marketing


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WINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2020 - Marketing and Advertising category WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Business: Small Business and Entrepreneurship category WINNER: BookAuthority Best New Book to Read in 2020 - Social Media Marketing category FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - International Business Book category Social networks are the new norm and traditional marketing is failing in today's digital, always-on culture. Businesses across the world are having to face up to how they remain relevant in the choppy waters of the digital ocean. In an era where a YouTube star gets more daily impressions than Nike, Coca-Cola and Walmart combined, traditional marketing as we know it is dead. The End of Marketing revolutionizes the way brands, agencies and marketers should approach marketing. From how Donald Trump won the American presidency using social media and why Kim Kardashian is one of the world's biggest online brands, through to the impact of bots and automation, this book will teach you about new features and emerging platforms that will engage customers and employees. Discover bold content ideas, hear from some of the world's largest brands and content creators and find out how to build smarter paid-strategies, guaranteed to help you dominate your markets. The End of Marketing explains that no matter how easy it is to reach potential customers, the key relationship between brand and consumer still needs the human touch. Learn how to put 'social' back into social media and claim brand relevancy in a world where algorithms dominate, organic reach is dwindling and consumers don't want to be sold to, they want to be engaged.




Stop Worrying; Start Selling


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Do you want to sell more books? Terrified at the prospect of marketing and ‘self promo’? Confused by author branding? Are you wondering whether it’s worth all the time and heartache? Bestselling novelist and host of the Worried Writer podcast, Sarah Painter, felt exactly the same way… Until she changed her mindset around marketing, money and selling her work. From worried debut novelist with a traditional publisher to happy and empowered hybrid author, earning a healthy income and connecting with her readers, Sarah shares the tips, strategies, and attitude changes which have helped her to succeed. Sarah will show you how to: · Treat your writing career as a business · Value your creative work and earn more money from it · Find the type of marketing which suits you and learn to embrace it · Understand author branding Plus much more! Packed with Sarah’s trademark honesty, this is your practical and supportive guide to taking control of your success as an author and building your readership. Don't give into the starving artist myth: Stop Worrying and Start Selling today!