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The team behind the data management platform that helps fuel Salesforce - the number one customer relationship management (CRM) company in the world - presents this indispensable guide to data-powered marketing. You’ll discover the three principles for building a successful data strategy and the five sources of data-driven power. You’ll hear how top companies put these data-driven strategies into action. And if you’re wondering what the future holds, you’ll receive seven forecasts to better prepare you for what may come next.

This book is perfect for anyone who eats and wants to understand what it takes to produce healthy food. Through new ideas and a different perspective, Marty shares a winning formula for success in modern family farming. Written by the owner of the Spence Farm featured in the documentary, Sustainable, this book provides listeners with the necessary steps an owner-operator must take to set up their family farm for long-term success.

Subscriptions are shifting revenues, reshaping markets, and changing our expectations for how we buy things. Have you changed your marketing practices to thrive in this new reality? Subscription Marketing offers creative marketing strategies for sustaining the customer relationships that build long-term success.

How do you build a business that thrives during good times and bad? Is there a strategy that can set up your company up for success, no matter what curveballs the world may throw your way? There is: Turn customers into repeat customers, and turn repeat customers into loyal customers. Renowned customer service and experience expert Shep Hyken maintains that delivering an amazing customer service experience that keeps customers coming back for more is everyone’s job.

Stand aside, we’re coming through! That’s the cry of a new generation of technology vendors. They have a new approach to enabling success for their customers. And they’re thriving as a result. These vendors all have subscription pricing at the heart of their business. Each has learned that if customers don’t feel they’ve had success, recurring revenue doesn’t grow, and may even decline. What makes them different? They have absolute clarity about what the customer considers success to be. And they’ve built their business around enabling that success.

Elevate your business through digital mastery: Achieve success faster than you imagined, even if technology feels overwhelming to you. Are you overwhelmed by ever-evolving digital marketing strategies, desperate to leverage AI but unsure where to start? Have you wondered if there's a way to build a profitable online presence without burning through your budget? You're not alone. Many business owners and aspiring marketers face the same challenges in the rapidly changing digital landscape. But there's good news!

How do underdogs close huge deals they have no business winning? How do rainmakers pull off a sale before the RFP is ever issued? They don't do it with a logical argument or even the best PowerPoint presentation. They do it by turning their pitch into an emotional experience that makes the customer think, "This just feels right." This book is your blueprint for tapping into a clients gut feeling and bringing home the win. Go Big or Go Home is the greatest collection of the most memorable pitches in film, sports, business, and philanthropy.

The 10 strategies in this book will build your confidence and competence, so that the next time you're struggling with a grumpy, cranky, whiney SOB, you won't have to just stand there wondering, "How can I sell to this jerk?" With the can't-miss strategies you'll find in How to Deal with Difficult Customers, you'll turn that sourpuss into a sweetheart, close the deal in no time, and find yourself eager to take on the next tough customer.

Pharma Customer Experience reveals twenty secrets that pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are using today to connect emotionally with their customers—both patients and healthcare professionals.

Everywhere we turn, brands and organizations are under fire for failing to treat their customers with respect and dignity. And increasingly, consumers want firms to take a lead in helping to shape a better society. Yet, most don't know where to start or have struggled to get things right. In Marketplace Dignity, Cait Lamberton, Neela A. Saldanha, and Tom Wein introduce a tangible, practical way to take a stand on the fundamental value of humans, and in so doing, be a force for good in a society that increasingly demands that they do so.

In today’s highly-connected, consumer-driven market, leveraging digital marketing techniques is the only surefire way to attract more customers and make the kind of money you deserve. Following on the success of his book Internet Riches, top e-business entrepreneur and coach Scott Fox shares proven e-strategies to propel your business to success.

Most social media marketing strategies are designed to inflate useless metrics such as likes, shares, and comments. These metrics might look cool, but they won't grow your business. In this book, I bust the five most common social media marketing myths and show you how to use social media to your advantage.

Research shows that nothing impacts patient experiences more than the quality of communication. The key to better healthcare outcomes is communication. Over the past four decades, the Academy of Communication in Healthcare has worked tirelessly with health systems, teaching communication skills that put relationships - between patients and providers, as well as among providers - at the center of care. Now, for the first time, ACH's proven and effective methodology is detailed in this invaluable step-by-step guide.

Leading marketing practitioner and thought leader Joe Federer draws on evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroanatomy, and psychology, as well as more than a decade of hands-on experience, to explain why people act so differently in various online spaces and what they are seeking from participating in each one.

The most successful salespeople understand that they are fundamentally storytellers. The reality is that to succeed in sales, you need to master the art of customer conversation. Being remarkable and memorable in your conversations is very important - but it goes beyond great delivery. You must be able to articulate value. The Three Value Conversations provides the tools and methods you need to differentiate yourself and your solutions from the competition, elevate value to the right decision maker, and maximize all sales opportunities across the entire long lead buying cycle.

Compete in the digital world with pragmatic strategies for success. Digital Sense provides a complete playbook for organizations seeking a more engaged customer experience strategy. By reorganizing sales and marketing to compete in today's digital-first, omni-channel environment, you gain newfound talent and knowledge from the resources already at hand.

Learn the ins and outs of sales techniques with this comprehensive and accessible guide that is the crash course in how to sell anything.

In order to be successful both today and in the future, you need to separate yourself from the competition by practicing the breakthrough principle of adaptive innovation. How? By delivering an experience that the competition either cannot or will not attempt to copy. This is literally impossible if you stick to what is already familiar to you because whatever is familiar to you and your customers is likely to be familiar to your competition. You must create a new experience that is unique to you and that fosters a powerful emotional attachment with your target customer.

Get retail sales without stress, embarrassment, or rejection. Shy? Don't want to talk to your friends? Afraid to connect with strangers? Don't know where to start? Don't know what to say? Never feel guilty again. Learn how to position your retail sales so people are happy to buy. Learn exactly what to say to make your retail sales soar.

In Branding Is Sex, brand dominatrix Deb Gabor explains how proper brand positioning gets your customers in the mood. In just seven short and sweet chapters, Deb covers these juicy topics and more: how the most successful brands in the world get their customers laid; how to never fail the Bullshit Test; and who your brand should hop in the sack with (and it’s not who you think).