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A thrilling and irreverent memoir about the transformation of the advertising business from the 1980s to today. Richard Kirshenbaum was born to sell. Raised in a family of Long Island strivers, this future advertising titan was just a few years old when his grandfather first taught him that a Cadillac is more than a car, and that if you can’t have a Trinitron you might as well not watch TV. He had no connections when he came to Madison Avenue, but he possessed an outrageous sense of humor that would make him a millionaire.

The Internet landscape is changing rapidly. Did you know that within a very short time, your website may be virtually invisible to the search engines? Did you know that soon the only way you are going to get any traffic at all is to pay for it? Google wants your money. They have been eliminating from their indexes websites that do not meet their stringent standards. Only legitimate websites offering nonduplicated, original content will get any free search engine traffic.

Here's the first book to apply guerrilla sales and marketing tactics to the unique, high-pressure environment of electronic communications. This groundbreaking resource is packed with valuable tips, expert advice, and insider secrets on finding, closing, and increasing sales by phone and fax, as well as via e-mail and the Internet.

Transporting listeners back to a dramatic time in the late 1800s, Dobrow spotlights a trio of men who reshaped our image of the West and earned national fame: John M. Burke of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Tody Hamilton of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Moses P. Handy of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Drawing on scores of original source materials, Dobrow brings to light the surprisingly sophisticated techniques of these Gilded Age press agents.

Today, your online reputation doesn’t follow you - you follow it. In an increasingly virtual world, your digital presence defines who you are even before your physical presence. For business leaders - whether you’re an executive, manager, consultant, or entrepreneur - this reality has created incredible opportunities, of which few leaders have taken advantage.

In Willing & Abel, Mike Abel, one of the founding partners of multi-award-winning advertising agency M&C Saatchi Abel, reveals the secret sauce behind the company’s success by sharing lessons hard-learned at the coalface of business, leadership, and creativity over the last 30 years. Ethics and empowerment, trust and value, gut instincts and tough decisions - this is what it takes to build a business that is future-fit come rain, shine, pandemics, or government corruption.

Advertising veterans Mike Sullivan and Michael Tuggle unpack the poorly understood and grossly underleveraged connection between brand and culture. Filled with fascinating case studies, entertaining stories, and engaging insights, the book examines the true essence of what makes a company a challenger brand, unveils how successful challengers of all sizes use culture to create extraordinary brand distinction, and finishes with a detailed blueprint for building your own transcendent culture.

In Brand Currency, former Amazon Advertising executive creative director Steve Susi takes you inside the corporate enigma to reveal the four currencies that dictate the customer’s and Amazon’s every move: money, information, loyalty, and time. Steve offers firsthand experience and case studies from across the brandscape to prove that prioritizing these currencies is exactly what your brand needs to break through, maximize its potential, and leave everyone asking, “How do they do it?”

Der erfolgreiche Erstkontakt am Telefon ist eine der schwierigsten Vertriebsaufgaben im Business-to-Business-Umfeld. Gleichzeitig ist und bleibt das Telefon der effektivste Weg zu neuen Kunden - sowohl für die Termin-Vereinbarung als auch für das Telesales. In diesem Ratgeber verrät einer der gefragtesten Vertriebstrainer Deutschlands die Geheimnisse der erfolgreichen Telefonakquise. Sie entwickeln eine neue Herangehensweise, mit der Sie sich erfrischend von anderen Anrufern abheben, weil Sie genau das Gegenteil von dem tun, was alle anderen machen.

The Portable M.B.A. in Marketing offers an upper-level marketing curriculum, updated and applied to today's - and tomorrow's - managers. It illuminates the key issues facing today's companies: the rediscovery of the customer, the quest for total quality, global competition, and the challenges of innovation, all of which are necessary components of the competitive edge in the global economy.

The Brand Who Cried Wolf is the ultimate handbook for companies and individuals who want to establish and sustain their most powerful, successful brands Instead, The Brand Who Cried Wolf explains that great branding doesn't come from gimmicks or even from good advertising. Great branding begins and ends with exceptional, innovative customer service.

From the top ad people all over the world - the ones who create the best television commercials and ads: the ones you love, the ones you remember, the ones you wish you had thought of yourself - come their own stories, in their own words, about the first work they ever did…and lived to talk about, barely. They talk about the zaniness and craziness; they talk about the good guys and the bad girls, and vice versa; they talk about things you think can only happen on television or in the movies but actually happened to these people. You may not believe what you hear, but in the ad world, you may not believe what you see, either.

An industry insider reveals the next generation of marketing - and provides the insight you need to use it to beat the competition.

Learn what makes the African American market unique, why marketers should care, and how you can effectively connect with black Americans. Drawing on her wealth of experience and ongoing research and consulting on the African American market, Pepper shares with listeners her thoughtful insights on this influential segment.

Marketing was destiny for Mat Zucker - the perfect cocktail of creativity, art, and salesmanship. Half-guidebook, half memoir, Bronze Seeks Silver surfaces 30 years of lessons from an ad veteran in selling brands, building relationships, and managing careers.

Remember your first business card? It was such a novelty item. But did you know that these six square inches are the best and most handy marketing devices that ever fit right in your pocket? In this program, you'll learn how to network using your business card to actually create more business. Now that's a novel concept.

How might you make $3,000 to even $100,000 every month? It would be through Facebook advertising. Numerous individuals don't have a clue about just how much money you can make with Facebook and how it can be one the most rewarding web organizations you can do. A huge number of individuals are bringing home the bacon from Facebook, and so can you in the wake of listening to this book.

Do you want to increase your company’s online growth? In the modern age, increasing your company's sales is not such a difficult task as it used to be in the pre-social media times. The author of this book Sales Funnel Secret has been working in the field of digital marketing for more than 7 years. He considers online media as a huge part of success in online business. Without the right words targeted towards the right audience, it is entirely impossible to have a successful company online.

Award Winning Humorist, Speaker and Corporate Trainer Peter Fogel assembles the "Dream Team" of Top Speakers from around the United States and Abroad and pulls back the curtain on their inside tips, tricks and tactics to building a successful speaking career, creating products, getting over your fear of public speaking, how to add humor to your presentation and much more. Rock, solid, content that paves the way for your own success whether you are speaking for fun or profit (hopefully both).

Social Marketing Success is your proven four-step guide to getting more leads, clients, and sales using social media. The strategies in this book have been tried and tested for almost a decade and are ones the Britpreneur still uses to this day! By listening to Social Marketing Success and applying the four simple steps, you will soon see how simple it is to get more exposure to your business, brand, or idea.