The 5-Minute Marketer


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Quick marketing ideas with fast results! You run a small business and you want to get ahead of the competition, but how can you give resources to marketing when you're short on time and the budget is tight? The solution is here! The 5-Minute Marketer is packed with 395 tried-and-tested ways to market your business in 5 minutes or less. Written by Stefan Ekberg, an author with over 20 years' experience in marketing for small firms, this is an amazing book of marketing hacks for anyone who doesn't want to waste time when spreading the word about their business. Some of the 395 techniques will be new to you, while some are familiar ideas that are too easily forgotten in the day-to-day pressures of running a business. You'll find tips on generating new orders, speeding up sales, selling more online, improving your website and much more. Read with an open mind and highlight the ideas you would like to try, then just find 5 minutes and put them into practice. Now what are you waiting for? In 5 minutes' time you could have marketed your business in at least one new way. Don't delay any longer - start reading and start marketing. Become a 5-minute marketer!




The Marketing Minute


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For marketers and business owners, The Marketing Minute provides a daily dose of practical marketing ideas, including action steps for each, in areas ranging from branding and service to innovation and targeting your audience.




60-Minute Brand Strategist


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Praise for 60-Minute Brand Strategist "A fresh take on the wisdom of putting brand strategy at the heart of corporate strategy. Brilliant insights for a fast-moving world." —Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry "Idris Mootee paints a sharp, comprehensive, and finely articulated analysis of the potential of meaningful brands in the 21st century's cultural scenario and business landscape. The result is a smart manual that reminds you and your company how to build relevant, authentic, sustainable, and successful brands in an evolving society." —Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo Inc. "Idris's book teaches us how to engage today's increasingly cynical consumers on a deeper emotional level to build real equity and leadership. He demonstrates how to break out of the box and connect business strategy to brand strategy, and how the right brand story never really ends!" —Blair Christie, SVP and CMO, Cisco Systems, Inc. "It's rare to find a book that's both inspiring and practical but Idris nailed it! He has crafted the ultimate guide to brand building in the connected world with visual clarity and thought-provoking strategy." —Eric Ryan, cofounder, Method Products, Inc. This book is about one thing only: branding. Period. In this economy ruled by ideas, the only sustainable form of leadership is brand leadership. 60-Minute Brand Strategist offers a fast-paced, field-tested view of how branding decisions happen in the context of business strategy, not just in marketing communications. With a combi-nation of perspectives from business strategy, customer experience, and even anthropology, this new and updated edition outlines the challenges traditional branding faces in a hyper-connected world. This essential handbook of brand marketing offers an encyclopedia of do's and don'ts, including new case studies of how these concepts are being used by the world's most successful and valuable brands. 60-Minute Brand Strategist is your battle plan, filled with powerful branding tools and techniques to win your customers' hearts and defeat the competition.




5-Minute Selling


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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Add 50% to 100% to Your SalesIn 5 Minutes Per Day 5-Minute Selling presents a proven, simple process that can double your sales, even if you dont have time for an elaborate new sales system. When you spend your days scrambling to take orders and resolving customer issues, there is little time for new sales techniques. This book is for you. In 5-Minute Selling, Alex Goldfayn describes how thousands of his clients and workshop attendees have generated dramatic annual sales growth with short bursts of action throughout the day. With three-second efforts throughout the day, you can add 50 to 100% to your sales. The techniques in this book are simple but powerful: Youll learn the power of picking up the phone proactively to call customers and prospects when nothing is wrong, because almost nobody does this Youll get approaches for offering customers additional products and servicesand asking about what else they are buying elsewherebecause almost nobody does this either Youll also learn about the low-tech but incredibly effective singular impact of the hand-written note In short, 5-Minute Selling is about showing customers and prospects that we care about them more than our competition does with simple, repeated, lightning-fast, high-value, consistent communications. Dont Read This Book, DO THIS BOOK: 5-Minute Selling lays out a Two-Week Challenge for you implement in your sales work. Follow the detailed process for five minutes per day, for 10 working days (less than one total hour of time), and, like thousands before you, you will begin to see dramatic improvements in your sales growth.




Building a StoryBrand


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More than half-a-million business leaders have discovered the power of the StoryBrand Framework, created by New York Times best-selling author and marketing expert Donald Miller. And they are making millions. If you use the wrong words to talk about your product, nobody will buy it. Marketers and business owners struggle to effectively connect with their customers, costing them and their companies millions in lost revenue. In a world filled with constant, on-demand distractions, it has become near-impossible for business owners to effectively cut through the noise to reach their customers, something Donald Miller knows first-hand. In this book, he shares the proven system he has created to help you engage and truly influence customers. The StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their companies. Without a clear, distinct message, customers will not understand what you can do for them and are unwilling to engage, causing you to lose potential sales, opportunities for customer engagement, and much more. In Building a StoryBrand, Donald Miller teaches marketers and business owners to use the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. His proven process has helped thousands of companies engage with their existing customers, giving them the ultimate competitive advantage. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching you: The seven universal story points all humans respond to; The real reason customers make purchases; How to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and How to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.




Book More Business


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This book is about the business of speaking. Specifically, it's for those who are paid (or want to be!) to deliver their message. You'll find what you need to jump start a business as well as how to take an already successful speaking business to the next level. You may have the most interesting and important message in the world but it will go unheard if you don't have a platform. This book illustrates not only how to get the platform, but how to be well paid for your work. Some key takeaways include how to:-Develop a powerful positioning statement that describes you by concept and outcome-Identify target markets and discover who makes the decision to hire you-Leverage social media to find prospects and attract followers-Utilize additional revenue streams to compliment your speaking income




The 1-Page Marketing Plan


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WARNING: Do Not Read This Book If You Hate Money To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done. In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. It's literally a single page, divided up into nine squares. With it, you'll be able to map out your own sophisticated marketing plan and go from zero to marketing hero. Whether you're just starting out or are an experienced entrepreneur, The 1-Page Marketing Plan is the easiest and fastest way to create a marketing plan that will propel your business growth. In this groundbreaking new book you'll discover: - How to get new customers, clients or patients and how to make more profit from existing ones. - Why "big business" style marketing could kill your business and strategies that actually work for small and medium-sized businesses. - How to close sales without being pushy, needy, or obnoxious while turning the tables and having prospects begging you to take their money. - A simple step-by-step process for creating your own personalized marketing plan that is literally one page. Simply follow along and fill in each of the nine squares that make up your own 1-Page Marketing Plan. - How to annihilate competitors and make yourself the only logical choice. - How to get amazing results on a small budget using the secrets of direct response marketing. - How to charge high prices for your products and services and have customers actually thank you for it.




The Speaker Author


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Speakers who author books have a venue to sell books, build their tribes, and create more visibility for their platforms. Authors who speak have added credibility and visibility with their books, having quite literally "written the book on it." Speaker Authors can uniquely create a broader platform that expedites and amplifies their message to the marketplace, building on their "authority" in compelling ways.Lois Creamer and Cathy Fyock have teamed to help you become a Speaker Author and ramp-up your impact to build your business. Whether you are a coach, consultant, or other expert who benefits by positioning your intellectual property, you will benefit from this idea-packed book.




The 10-Minute Marketer's Secret Formula


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The Death of Mass Marketing If you're trying to attract business beyond a 10-minute drive of your enterprise-STOP. It's a waste of time, money and the chance for much bigger profits. That's the eye-opening assertion of Tom Feltenstein, the modern-day father of strategic neighborhood marketing in The 10-Minute Marketer's Secret Formula: A Shortcut to Extraordinary Profits Using Neighborhood Marketing. Feltenstein, sounding the battle cry of his mentor, McDonald's late founder Kay Kroc, that "it's all local," makes a powerful argument for focusing on your own backyard. He describes how to win against bigger companies, bigger ad budgets and bigger campaigns. Having helped build McDonald's sales through strategic neighborhood marketing one neighborhood at a time, he has the knowledge and experience to back is claim. It's a revolutionary concept today, but it's as old as the general store of a century ago. And it's already being used with tremendous success by an elite group of retailers: Harley-Davidson, Krispy Kreme, McDonald's, Nordstroms, Starbucks and even Wal-Mart. Feltenstein brings it alive in this instructive guidebook essential for any business that depends on generating sales.




Agricultural Marketing


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