Business : Advertising & Promotion

With an exclusive look inside Google, Disney, Yahoo, IBM, and others, this book shows how your company can use blogs to raise its visibility and transform internal communications. All companies, large and small, know that reaching customers directly and influencing--and being influenced by--them is essential to success. Blog Marketing. shows marketing and PR professionals as well small business owners how to do just that without spending a lot of money. Readers will learn how to tap into the power of blogs to create a direct line of communication with customers, raise the company's visibility, and position their organizations as industry thought leaders. ''Blogs will soon become a staple in the information diet of every serious businessperson . . . . Blogs offer an accelerated and efficient approach to acquiring and understanding the kind of information all of us need to make business decisions.''. -- John Battelle, Business 2.0 more...

Price: $24.95

The Brand Gym is a refreshingly simple, practical guide to brand management and how it can boost business performance. The book reveals the fundamental differences between winners and losers in the branding battle, illustrated with inside stories from Unilever, Gillette, Apple and others. A programme of eight 'Workouts' will help you raise your own game in key areas such as insight, portfolio strategy, visioning and positioning. more...

Price: $39.95

Branded Male discusses the evolution of the male consumer and the desire of marketers to tap into the still underdeveloped male market. Crammed with facts and anecdotes the book considers his exposure to brands and the ways marketers can exploit these channels more...

Price: $38.75

Combining shrewd analysis of contemporary practices with a historical perspective, Breaking Up America traces the momentous shift that began in the mid-1970s when advertisers rejected mass marketing in favor of more aggressive target marketing. Turow shows how advertisers exploit differences between consumers based on income, age, gender, race, marital status, ethnicity, and lifesyles. "An important book for anyone wanting insight into the advertising and media worlds of today. In plain English, Joe Turow explains not only why our television set is on, but what we are watching. The frightening part is that we are being watched as we do it."—Larry King. "Provocative, sweeping and well made . . . Turow draws an efficient portrait of a marketing complex determined to replace the 'society-making media' that had dominated for most of this century with 'segment-making media' that could zero in on the demographic and psychodemographic corners of our 260-million-person consumer marketplace."—Randall Rothenberg, Atlantic Monthly. more...

Price: $21.00

The projection of authenticity is one of the key pillars of marketing. Research reveals that consumers seek authenticity through the brands they choose. Based on extensive research with consumers and brand managers this book offers seven guiding principles for building brand authenticity. more...

Price: $45.00