It's time to declare war on wasted advertising... If you're tired of spending money on advertising with poor results... If you're sick of shiny objects and marketing gimmicks... If you wish someone would just tell you the truth about how it works... ...this book is for you. It's time to make a change. Stop paying for bad advertising. Stop settling for poor quality leads (or none at all). The Maven Marketer is the no-nonsense guide, created from over a decade on the front lines of small business marketing. Learn the exact process Brandon Welch, Founder of Frank & Maven, has used to flood his clients with new customers, skyrocket revenues, and change the lives of business owners across the United States. Brandon exposes the truth about the broken system of advertising in America, why so many companies fail to grow to their fullest potential, and how you can finally build a marketing plan that will launch your company to new heights. Conquer the challenges limiting your business and fast-track a plan for marketing your way to millions.

You shouldn't have to wonder whether an expensive marketing campaign will connect with your target audiences. With The Marketing Maven Method, you won't. You'll know exactly what you should do, how and why you should do it, and how to measure your results. Throughout this book, you'll read about the different tactics used in each step of the Marketing Maven Method to take the guesswork out of marketing and get win after win for your business. Insights360 is the first phase of The Marketing Maven Method. This step is all about uncovering key insights about your industry and competitors. In this section, you'll learn how to highlight the most vulnerable channels to take market share from your competitors and map the path of least resistance for fast revenue growth. Strategy360 is the second phase of The Marketing Maven Method. After completing your Insights360 deep dive marketing research, it's time to turn those new insights into an actionable marketing roadmap. In this section, you'll learn how to use your research data and consumer personas to document specific tactics that encourage your audiences to take action. The last phase of The Marketing Maven Method is Implementation360-where the rubber meets the road. This is where we put all the key learnings from Insights360 and Strategy360 into action. During this section, you'll read about the different techniques used to execute the marketing strategies and to help you attain your desired outcomes.

A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic. For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a “savvy”—a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it’s the eve of Mibs’s big day. As if waiting weren’t hard enough, the family gets scary news two days before Mibs’s birthday: Poppa has been in a terrible accident. Mibs develops the singular mission to get to the hospital and prove that her new power can save her dad. So she sneaks onto a salesman’s bus . . . only to find the bus heading in the opposite direction. Suddenly Mibs finds herself on an unforgettable odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up—and of other people, who might also have a few secrets hidden just beneath the skin.

The way far too many people at far too many companies think about and execute marketing was born in an era when suppliers-the companies generating products and services-were in the catbird seat. That world is long dead, and customers now occupy that position. In this relentlessly globalizing economy, we live in a world of oversupply and underdemand, with too many suppliers chasing too few customers, offering more goods and services than the market can absorb. Noel Capon set out to discover what differentiates people who know how to succeed in this changed world-people who are able to create customers for the products and services of their business. The Marketing Mavens is based on a four-year-long research program that spanned twenty-five industries, identifying long-term winners and what they do differently. Put simply, Marketing Mavens place customers at the center of their business and make marketing everyone’s job. Using a wide variety of intriguing, in-depth examples, from ESPN to the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Capon shows how the mavens create customers. How by placing the sports fan at the center of its business, ESPN creates programming that meets the needs of fans that were never given a second thought by the networks; or how physicians at the Mayo Clinic, being both technical experts and skilled at creating a patient-centric ambience, motivate people to pay the extra travel and lodging expenses not covered by insurance. Marketing Mavens, though a rare breed, can be found up and down an organization-from the CEO to chief marketing officers to business unit managers. Noel Capon has talked to mavens from across the global economy and brings forth their uncanny insights behind the five imperatives of the true Marketing Maven: • Picking markets that matter • Selecting segments to dominate and finding the sweet spot in that segment • Designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage • Integrating to serve the customer • And measuring what matters Noel Capon in The Marketing Mavens redefines marketing, moving it from a focus on selling and communication into a discipline that guides all the key decisions of a business. By seeing marketing as everyone’s business-not the domain of a few specialists-you’ll get your business in step with the way the world really works . . . and start creating customers. Next year’s profits don’t depend on next year’s numbers but on next year’s customers. The Marketing Mavens points the way to those customers, profits, and an increased stock price.

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Bailey examines the viable idea that moms are a separate and distinct group that responds to different stimuli. This book uncovers the critical components necessary for eliciting the desired response from marketing to moms and explains how to gain tangible results.

In a world of limitless media noise, how can businesses break through to customers? Context. We are in the midst of a massive media revolution. For the first time in history, ordinary people around the world have the ability to create, distribute, and consume content instantly, from anywhere, using connected devices. The massive increase in media "noise" created by these consumers and devices creates an entirely new situation that makes conventional marketing models obsolete. And yet countless companies and marketing organizations continue to rely on traditional models, assuming that their "campaigns" will sway customers. They couldn't be more wrong. In this provocative and practical book, Salesforce marketing maven Mathew Sweezey boldly outlines this new "infinite media" environment and poses a profound question: In a transformed world where customers shape their own experience, what is the key to breaking through and motivating them to buy? It is context--the close linkage between an individual's immediate desires and the experiences a brand creates to fulfill them. Drawing on new research and new insights into current consumer psychology, Sweezey defines the five key elements of context. Customer experiences must be: Available: Helping people achieve the value they seek in the moment Permissioned: Giving people what they've asked for, on their terms Personal: Going beyond how personal it is to how personally you can deliver it Authentic: Combining voice, empathy, and brand congruence simultaneously Purposeful: Creating a deeper connection to the brand, beyond the product Sweezey uses vivid examples to highlight a new marketing model used by high-performing brands big and small. The final part of the book shifts to execution, providing a new rule book for context-based marketing. The Context Marketing Revolution will change forever how you think about the purpose and practice of marketing.