Sustainable Marketing

If you are a professional, researcher, or student seeking to understand and implement marketing practices that promote sustainability and corporate social responsibility, this work is essential for you. With a didactic approach, this book offers valuable insights and practical examples on how to integrate sustainability into marketing strategies.

In our fast-moving and consumer-driven world – in which more than 10 million people are Marketers – social and environmental issues are increasingly being moved to the top of boardroom agendas. Each and every company, and therefore every marketer, has a responsibility to learn about the changing landscape in which they operate, and to adapt their skills, creativity and influence accordingly. From the authors of Sustainable Marketing, awarded Highly Commended at the Business Book Awards 2022, Can Marketing Save the Planet? is the ultimate guidebook for this journey.

Green products have been around since the 1970s, but it's only in recent years that they've become ubiquitous. It's not because consumers suddenly prize sustainability above all. It's because savvy green marketers are no longer trying to "sell the earth" -instead they're promoting the value their products provide: better health, superior performance, good taste, cost-effectiveness, or simply convenience. This central emphasis on primary benefits - the new rules - is critical to winning over the mainstream consumer.

Every day, a new silver bullet comes out, promising to grow your business, increase your profit margins, and make your life as a business owner easier. Unfortunately, most of them don't work, wasting your time and money. Plus, they take your attention away from other more worthwhile opportunities. The ones that do work for others just never seem to work for you. Blanket prescriptions are like that - never quite hitting the mark for all but the few with the exact symptoms.

Why do so many farm businesses struggle to survive, let alone thrive? It’s because they don’t make clear strategic choices that reward them with a competitive advantage. Instead, most entrepreneurs start with a boilerplate business because they think they're supposed to. Boilerplate business plans offer little help in guiding strategic choices that determine if your business thrives or dies.

¡Descubra la Guía Definitiva para el Marketing Sostenible y la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa!Si eres un profesional, investigador o estudiante que busca entender e implementar prácticas de marketing que promuevan la sostenibilidad y la responsabilidad social corporativa, esta obra es esencial para ti. Con un enfoque didáctico, este libro ofrece valiosos conocimientos y ejemplos prácticos sobre cómo integrar la sostenibilidad en las estrategias de marketing.

Pork dorks. Craftsters. American Girl fans. Despite their different tastes, these eclectic diehards have a lot in common: they're obsessed about a specific brand, product, or category. They pursue their passions with fervor, and they're extremely knowledgeable about the things they love. They aren't average consumers - they're superconsumers. Although small in number, superconsumers can have an outsized impact on a company's bottom line.

How did the 360-year-old scissor company, Fiskars, double its profit in key markets just by realizing its customers had already formed a community of avid scrapbookers? How is Best Buy planning to dominate the musical-instruments market? By understanding the "Brains on Fire" model of tapping movements and stepping away from the old-school marketing "campaign" mentality.

For hardworking and dedicated professional service providers, Make Them Smile offers a way out of the grind of living hour to billable hour, providing a road map for how to build a scalable, standardized brand that provides a consistent, repeatable, and high-quality customer experience.

From the authors of Fire Your Sales Team Today! comes another industry redefining guide to business success in the 21st century: Smash the Funnel. Discover how to create an entirely new revenue strategy, whether your buyer is a corporation or consumer, an enterprise or entrepreneur.

Intelligent marketing management is an important tool for brand building and sustainable customer loyalty. Here you will get an introduction to marketing management and its most important basics: What does the term actually mean these days and what goals does it pursue? Surely you have heard of the well-known marketing mix, but what exactly is behind it? You will find easy-to-understand answers to all these questions in this book, which will help you to get a general overview of the basics. In addition, you will receive important practical tips as well as a 10-step action plan.

The sales funnel was invented over a century ago. No wonder it’s not working like it used to! How can you drive company revenue in an age when customers hold all the power, the lines between sales and marketing have blurred, and business disruption is the norm? From the authors of Fire Your Sales Team Today! comes another industry redefining guide to business success in the 21st century: Smash the Funnel. Discover how to create an entirely new revenue strategy, whether your buyer is a corporation or consumer, an enterprise or entrepreneur.

For many companies, large and small, customer data is a noisy mess. There are problems across the ecosystem from partners to page views and from KPIs to campaign tracking. But the biggest problem is not the technical data silos but the human ones. In The Age of Customer Equity, marketing expert with a passion for analytics Allison Hartsoe helps you cut through the noise and gives you the tools you need to humanize your customer data to connect to the right customers at the right time.

Solid profits, a strong brand, steady customers - all of these can vanish when market shifts disrupt business as usual. So how do you keep from losing ground? How do you stay a step ahead of competitors? The solution is surprisingly straightforward: innovate tweak by tweak.

Acclaimed business leaders Mitch Little and Hendre Coetzee share their decades of expertise in this innovative guidebook focused on helping you succeed in the sales force. The sales world will continue to undergo dramatic changes. New strategies and methods are essential, but they require the right mindset. Shiftability lays the necessary mental groundwork sales professionals need in order to implement these changes in methodology and thrive in a new environment.

You intend to self-publish or have published a book or two. You’re not selling very well and wonder why not. You feel you should be doing something, but the thought of “marketing” gives you nightmares. You don’t want to become one of these people shouting “buy my book” on Twitter. But you would still love to start selling some books and pay some or even all of your bills with your writing income.

The real estate industry is a unique industry. You can earn a real estate license, but it will not teach you how to sell real estate. No one knows how to sell real estate as the result of attending real estate school. Agents need to know how to operate their own business, and they need to develop a business plan based on the market they want to serve. It's also your responsibility to educate yourself on the latest trends in your local community and the technology you can use to reach that community. This audiobook will help.