Publicity

• ISBN13: 9780071627962
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Proven strategies that make sure your marketing message stands out from the rest

The average American is exposed to as many as 5,000 marketing messages per day, so it’s more important than ever to create the most effective marketing and advertising campaigns as possible.

Manager’s Guide to Marketing, Advertising, and Publicity explains

• The 14 principles of marketing communications strategy
• Common marketing mistakes to avoid
• Techniques for creating powerful marketing messages
• The many choices for delivering your marketing message
• How to take full advantage of digital platforms

Today, you must come up with a bigger, better, brighter marketing campaign, or you’re guaranteed to be lost in the noise. This primer is ideal for anyone looking to position his or her organization as a powerful competitor in the twenty-first century.

Briefcase Books, written specifically for today’s busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page:

• Clear definitions of key terms, concepts, and jargon
• Tactics and strategies for overseeing marketing initiatives
• Insider tips for getting the most out of marketing, advertising, and publicity
• Practical advice for creating effective campaigns
• Warning signs when preparing for and undertaking marketing initiatives
• Stories and insights from the experiences of others
• Specific marketing procedures, tactics, and hands-on techniques

Now, at long last, Jay Conrad Levinson has teamed up with two high-profile PR execs - Rick Frishman and Jill Lublin - to produce GUERRILLA PUBLICITY: Hundreds of sure-fire tactics to get maximum sales for minimum dollars

The PR bible for a new decade. The book lays out an aggressive plan for learning how to build publicity campaigns from the inside out, zeroing in on a targeted market and infusing a marketing plan with publicity hooks.

This powerhouse work also includes:

Inside information on how to make friends in the media

Simple ways to get others to spread the company's message

Sample press releases and media kits-"Guerrilla" style

This book is based on 10 months of interviews with industry insiders and bestselling indie (self-publishing) authors who have used iUniverse, Xlibris, Spire, Trafford, Lulu and other services. Learn how some have sold up to one million copies. Each author reveals the hits and misses of book marketing where innovation and clever choices bring best results and satisfaction.

In 1995, BRUCE BATCHELOR rocked the publishing industry when he invented print-on-demand (POD) publishing and triggered a landslide of new books from every country in the world. Since then, more than 100,000 writers have seized the opportunity to be published, and the rate is accelerating. In 2007, an estimated 30,000 new authors will use POD services such as AuthorHouse, BookSurge, iUniverse, Lulu, Spire, Trafford and Xlibris. As a next step, Bruce has turned his attention to solving the rest of the puzzle: how all those self-publishing ("indie") authors can be successful in SELLING their books in cost-efficient and environmentally-friendly ways.

Bruce was CEO of Trafford Publishing for 11 years, and is now owner/publisher at Agio Publishing House in Victoria, BC, Canada. A bestselling author and management consultant, Bruce speaks at writers conferences and universities about future trends and how to book marketing can be demystified.

The Personal Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU received the 1998 Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring from Mentor & Protege Newsletter.

Self-Employed Professional magazine had this to say: 'Gold guides you through the process of developing an image and using it to get the recognition you deserve.'

• ISBN13: 9780979338472
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

• ISBN13: 9780071508285
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

The Wall Street Journal Bestseller

The Future is Now--Get Ready to Reap the Profits.

We stand at the beginning of a consumer-centric age--an era with potentially enormous returns for leaders in marketing, advertising and media--if they get their approach right. The new media environment is “always on,” digitally accessible to audiences from anywhere at any time, and responsive to their control. As consumers get used to this, the world of marketing is shifting to one of constant experimentation, fine-grained insight through new metrics, and continual innovation of the visible advertising message, as well as the changing business infrastructure beneath it.

The thought leaders at Booz & Company and strategy+business magazine have collaborated to create an up-to-the-minute exploration of this turbulent yet promising new digital era and its implications for corporate executives and marketing and advertising professionals. Giving you profiles of the best in the business and deep explorations of the most effective innovations and strategies in the marketing world, Always On introduces you to the companies that are reshaping the ways we will reach customers in the future.

Their secrets are in this book, including how to:

• Match your messages to the right media
• Learn the leading strategies of consumer-centric pioneers
• Discover the lessons of laggard marketers
• Explore viral marketing
• Track advertising spending shifts
• Capture emerging opportunities in a world of constant change
• Master the new marketing metrics
• Engage your customers on their terms

Figuring out the best mix of strategies for any brand requires experimentation, networking, innovation, analytics, and risk taking-qualities that have never been adequately nurtured in a marketer's traditional career path. Always On puts you at the front of the race for successful innovation, with the latest successful approaches and techniques--essential competitive knowledge in a marketing and advertising world that never quits.

Discover why authors fail with paid advertising, pay-per-click, fee-based reviews, and "bestseller" campaigns

Blog to connect with readers, driving them to Amazon and bookstores

Boost your visibility with Google, use MySpace for viral marketing

Ignite word of mouth with Web social networks

Capitalize on peer content and "amateur" book reviews

Here's what the experts say about this book:

"A wealth of ideas for making your book stand out, including many techniques for Internet buzz you won't find elsewhere."

-- Jane Corn, Amazon.com Top Reviewer

"I spent two years building up skills to market my books Earthcore and Ancestor online, and I can tell you right now that Plug Your Book would have saved me MONTHS of time. I bought this book just to make sure I wasn't missing anything, but it blew me away."

-- Scott Sigler, # 1 bestselling author

"An amazingly rich collection of cutting-edge promotional tactics and strategies. Makes most other books about online publicity look sickly."

-- Aaron Shepard, author: Aiming at Amazon

"...The one book every author needs to read. I don't care if you're writing a computer book, a science fiction novel or the next great self-help guide, you need to get copy of Steve Weber's Plug Your Book!"

- Joe Wikert, executive publisher, John Wiley & Sons "Practical, pragmatic, low-cost ideas for promoting the heck out of your own book, whether it's fiction, nonfiction, technical, business or anything else."

-- Dave Taylor, author: 'Growing Your Business with Google'

"I've worked with most of America's largest book publishers, helping many of them build online marketing departments. I've worked for authors too. Plug Your Book is the new training manual."

-- Steve O'Keefe, author: 'Publicity on the Internet'

"...Plug Your Book reveals the most effective and least expensive tools to promote your titles and to increase your exposure. It's the best book on online marketing I have ever read, and I read quite a few in the course of my consulting practice with small presses."

-- Marion Gropen, president, Gropen Associates

Here's what's inside the book:

... Taking control of your book sales; Electric word of mouth; Amazon's `long tail;' Personalized bookstores; Book recommendation effectiveness

... Amazon Bestseller Campaigns; How Bestseller Campaigns work; Haywired recommendations

... Amateur book reviews; Credibility through peers; Amazon Top Reviewers; Negative reviews; Posting trade reviews on Amazon; Fee-based book reviews

... Building your author Web site; A survey of author Web sites; Your online press kit; Multimedia for books; Podcasting for publicity; When to launch your site

... Blogging for authors; Connecting with readers; Blog comments: pros and cons; Blogging categories; Over the long haul; Blog-to-e-mail service

... Social networking; MySpace: Not just for kids; Facebook; Create your own group; Other places on MySpace; More social-networking sites

... Tag - You're it!; Personal book tagging; Amazon tags; Amazon Media Library; LibraryThing; Tag-based marketing

... Advanced Amazon tools; Buy X, Get Y; Free paired placement; Single New Product e-mails; Amazon Connect; Listmania; So You'd Like to . . . guides; Search Inside the Book; Statistically Improbable Phrases; Writing book reviews; Amapedia; Customer discussions; BookSurge; Your Amazon profile