C-Suite Network™

David Newman

As a small-business owner or solopreneur, you wear many hats–perhaps the most important of which is marketer.

But these days, with so many new ways to reach customers and clients — and only so much time in the day — it’s hard to know where to start. Should you be using social media? Email? Blogs? Video? SEO?

Small business marketing doesn’t have to be a mystery. It’s just a series of simple decisions (and the action steps to implement those decisions) that will help you regain the clarity, confidence, and control you need to succeed.

Do It! Marketing is a quick read and an encouraging kick in the pants that will reignite your marketing mojo. The underlying premise is that “only action creates results.”

Packed with do-this-now ideas to attract, engage, and win more customers and clients, this no-nonsense book reveals how to:

  • – Avoid blah, blah, blah marketing
  • – Use magnetic marketing strategies that pull (not push) qualified prospects into your world
  • – Get noticed using the power of 3PR
  • – Position yourself as the go-to expert in your field
  • – Become the obvious choice by building your Thought Leadership Platform
  • – Do social media right
  • – Zero in on your customers’ pain/gain factors
  • – Learn to speak prospect language about prospect problems
  • – Generate a steady stream of referrals
  • – Identify and focus on high-payoff marketing activities
  • – Gain clarity, confidence and control so you sell more – more easily and more often
  • – Cultivate and leverage enthusiastic advocates
  • – And more

Energetic, inspiring, and filled with concrete strategies, tactics, templates, and tools, Do It! Marketing shows you how to stop “marketing by accident” and start outsmarting, out-positioning, and out-executing the competition.

Christopher Brown

BECOME THE ENVY OF YOUR INDUSTRY WITH A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC CULTURE 

For the first time, this groundbreaking guide unlocks the secrets used by Amazon, Virgin, Apple, Starbucks, and salesforce.com. It creates a guide for success based on three years of scientific study drawing insights from more than 100 businesses to identify seven key factors. When implemented together these factors have been proven to drive superior business performance. Customer culture is as fundamental to business performance as breathing is to living. It is the life force of your business. This applies no matter what your industry sector.

And with the evidence-based methods in this book, you can replicate their success in your business!

The Customer Culture Imperative reveals the key disciplines of customer culture that consistently predict enhanced, sustainable business results. Each one is linked to a particular strategy and drives predictable and measurable improvements in one or more business performance factors–from innovation and customer satisfaction to growth in sales and profits to higher rates of new-product success. It gives you the tools to:

  • – Inspire everyone in the company to embrace a customer-centric culture
  • – Unify efforts across units by creating a “common language” for change
  • – Collect and measure data from your efforts and benchmark your progress
  • – Make change long term so you leave a legacy of an enduring business

 

Creating a customer-centric company takes more than making an investment in the customer service department and systems. It’s about building a culture in which the customer is at the heart of all decisions made within every function and unit. What’s best for the customer is what’s best for business. Make that a part of the DNA of your organization, and you will lead your company to unprecedented success. Guaranteed.

Paul Jankowski

Speak American Too: Your Guide to Building Powerful Brands in the New Heartland is the definitive field manual to marketing in the New Heartland, one of the nation’s largest and most powerful cultural segments representing nearly 60% of U.S. consumers.

This book combines new research findings from the first ever New Heartland Consumer Research Study, along with case study examples to familiarize you with the New Heartland consumer, and provides guidance on the principal channels of access through which we can be reached and influenced. Learn how the Core Values of Faith (not religion), Community and Family impact buying behavior and create a unique brand filter in the New Heartland. Discover the five key points of access that brands have the best opportunities to engage the New Heartland consumer: Music, Food, Sports, Outdoors and Social Media.

Finally, by examining current tools and strategies employed by brands today, you will be able to understand how to leverage these devices when designing your own New Heartland brand campaign, and read plenty of case studies that show just where brands went right or wrong.

This book gives every marketer the practical tools and know-how to make sure your brand campaign can Speak American, connect with New Heartlander core values, and be relevant in the places and spaces they live.

Speak American Too: Your Guide to Building Sustainable Brands in the New Heartland is not only a guide to understanding this culture, but a blueprint for brands to use in designing their effective New Heartland campaigns.