Business Advertising

Every day, your auto repair shop is missing out on revenue because your marketing isn’t as good as it could be. In most cases, it’s just plain bad. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Marketing isn’t rocket science, but it’s often treated as a last-minute task. Whether you’re the shop owner who does all of your marketing in-house or the one who hires it out to marketing companies, this book is for you. The Ultimate Guide to Auto Repair Shop Marketing is a no-fluff guide that, when its ideas are incorporated into your marketing, will increase your bottom line.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many talented artists out there, but few seem to make a living from their creativity? Andrea Ehrhardt is a six-figure artist and business coach who shares her knowledge to help those who are ready to go from being a hobbyist to becoming their own full-time creative boss. Build your unique art brand, connect with your target audience, become the go-to artist in your area, and love what you do for a living. This is your guide to help you break into the art world and live a life of creativity and financial freedom!

One of the most common questions entrepreneurs and small business owners ask is, “how do I create a category if I’m not a heavily funded startup, or some massively successful company? How can someone like me create a category of my own?” This reveals maybe the single greatest benefit of category design: anyone can do it, at any stage of their life.

Calling upon over 40 years of marketing experience, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout use vivid examples and fascinating anecdotes to explain the keys to today's tough, competitive marketplace. Learn how to avoid the danger of ego and arrogance, the need to understand trends, and many other crucial marketing lessons, as Ries and Trout point you solidly in the direction of success.

What’s the big idea? Jaime Cabrera has been asking this question and leading creative teams to the answer for over 25 years. Inspired by and featuring conversations with dozens of top creative directors from around the world on his popular podcast Confessions of a Creative Director, What’s the Big Idea is a must-have resource for any ambitious creative looking to advance their career as a creative leader at an agency, brand, or organization of any kind.

This is an audiobook for artists and creative humans. The Rogue Artist's Art Marketing Guide helps artists and creatives figure out unique and fun ways of putting themselves and their art out there. Award-winning artist Rafi Perez brings his unique and silly experience and insight of marketing yourself as an artist using your own special brand of creativity.

If you’re running (or starting) an agency, the odds are against you. The market is saturated and it’s hard to gain the trust of new customers. How do you build a truly remarkable agency business that wins and keeps clients? In The Agency: Build - Grow - Repeat, you’ll discover proven and actionable strategies and tools to build a remarkable agency business that wins and keeps clients (and staff).

Do you want more sales? Do you want more website traffic? Do you want to build your own personal influencer brand? But if you want to build a social media marketing plan that is both cost-effective and profitable, then you need to realize that online marketing is more than simply picking the right ad product or platform…social media marketing is all about having a multi-platform mindset.

Written by Jack Foster, a creative director for various advertising agencies with more than 40 years experience, How to Get Ideas (over 90,000 copies sold and translated into 15 languages) is a fun, accessible, and practical guide that takes the mystery and confusion out of developing new ideas.

The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world's most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.

A mediocre category designer will beat a world-class marketer every day of the week. The reason is because all marketing sits within a context. "He or she who frames the problem owns the solution." Without this context—without a category—your marketing becomes nothing but screaming, shouting, and pitching customers with deals, discounts, and other short-term tactics in the hopes of landing a sale.

If you're feeling abused or pressured by your prospect, you're doing something wrong. You should never have to forfeit your self-respect or fake enthusiasm about your product in order to make a sale. Likewise, your prospect should never feel manipulated by you. In fact, the buyers should be the ones to close the sale. Your role should be to help them help themselves.

Regardless of how focused or specific your keywords might be, you might still struggle to make your site visible on Google. Even if you have a local focus, it can still be a challenge to stand out among other people in your local community who are using the same keywords...Google AdWords is a popular pay-per-click or PPC advertising solution that provides a simple approach to handling your Google content.

Machine learning and automation are disrupting every industry—advertising is no exception. The modern digital advertising landscape is dominated by the likes of Facebook and Google Ads, and the traditional optimization levers that PPC managers grew accustomed to are being stripped away and replaced by automated solutions.

Training to be a sought after hairstylist? There are many secrets to making it to the top, that they don't teach you in the classroom. Graduating from school was the easy part. In order to build a thriving business, you have to do more than just cut hair; you have to market yourself and your services to get the job you want and become a successful entrepreneur.

The time is ripe for small and medium businesses to step out of their confines and start thinking big. You, as a business-owner, must get your products or services before the public. A head-turning advertisement can someday turn your business from a corner store to a giant corporation. Where do you start? The digital marketplace is the future for advertising your business. You can measure your performance easily with the help of paid and unpaid tools.

The world of digital media is changing at a phenomenal pace. Constantly evolving technologies are transforming not just how we access our information but how we interact and communicate with one another on a global scale. Understanding Digital Marketing is a practical, no-nonsense guide to web-marketing, the rules of new media, and researching the new generation of digital consumers. This fourth edition has been thoroughly revised with more information, fresh examples and case studies, and the latest developments in the industry.

This is as much the story of Indian advertising as it is about India. Ad veteran Ambi Parameswaran looks at how advertising has evolved, reflecting the country's culture, politics and economy in the last 50 years. From sartorial taste and food habits to marriage and old age, music and language to celebrities and censorship, Ambi examines more than a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed in the past five decades and how advertising and society have shaped each other.

The opportunity to become rich has never been greater. With the advent of the Internet it is now possible to sell products without startup or overhead costs. Sell software and make between 50-75% commissions without having to say a word to anyone. You can literally make thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands without picking up a phone or making a single sales call.

The influx of social media platforms over the past 10 years is the greatest boon to marketing since the creation of the internet. While there is undeniably money to be made from social media marketing, the shear amount of competition makes getting started successfully more difficult than it would otherwise be. If you are looking for the best way to dip your foot into this marketing goldmine, then Social Media Marketing 2019: How to Become an Influencer of Millions on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube & Instagram While Advertising & Building Your Personal Brand is the audiobook for you.