Ed Zitron

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

So you want to work in PR? Does the idea of glamorous parties, open bars and rubbing elbows with the rich and famous sound like an exciting career for you? Then neither this book or a career in Public Relations are for you. This book will teach you all you need to know about public relations, from what to do on your first day at your desk to how to start your own PR agency. You'll learn the core skill of the business: pitching. It'll also tell you how to avoid becoming a buzzword-spitting automaton that the media will hate. Written by a PR veteran who has done it all - and made every mistake along the way - This Is How You Pitch is an honest, direct guidebook to Public Relations and how to survive your first years in the business and how to turn it into a prosperous, fulfilling career.

This Is How You Pitch

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Grant Cardone

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition

During economic contractions, it becomes much more difficult to sell your products, maintain your customer base, and gain market share. Mistakes become more costly, and failure becomes a real possibility for all those who are not able to make the transition. But imagine being able to sell your products when others cannot, being able to take market share from both your competitors, and knowing the precise formulas that would allow you to expand your sales while others make excuses. If You’re Not First, You’re Last is about how to sell your products and services—despite the economy—and provides the reader with ways to capitalize regardless of their product, service, or idea. Grant shares his proven strategies that will allow you to not just continue to sell, but create new products, increase margins, gain market share and much more. Key concepts in If You’re Not First, You’re Last include: Converting the Unsold to Sold The Power Schedule to Maximize Sales Your Freedom Financial Plan The Unreasonable Selling Attitude

If You're Not First, You're Last

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Nir Eyal

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Revised and Updated, Featuring a New Case Study How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior. Eyal provides readers with: • Practical insights to create user habits that stick. • Actionable steps for building products people love. • Fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest to the Bible App, and many other habit-forming products.

Hooked

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Chris Murray

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Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time

Indispensable summaries of the best marketing books of our time Since 1978, Soundview Executive Book Summaries has offered its subscribers condensed versions of the best business books published each year. Focused, insightful, and practical, Soundview’s summaries have been acclaimed as the definitive selection service for the sophisticated business book reader. Now Soundview is bringing together summaries of seventeen essential marketing classics in a single volume that include one all-new, previously unpublished summary. Here is just about everything you ever wanted to know about marketing. The Marketing Gurus distills thousands of pages of powerful insights into less than three hundred, making it an ideal resource for busy professionals and students. Who are the gurus? They include: • Guy Kawasaki on How to Drive Your Competition Crazy • Geoffrey Moore on marketing high technology, in Crossing the Chasm. • Jack Trout on how companies can help their products stand above the crowd, in Differentiate or Die. • Regis McKenna on the changing role of the customer, in the classic Relationship Marketing. • Philip Kotler on the concept of Lateral Marketing, which helps companies avoid the trap of market fragmentation. • Seth Godin on how to create a Purple Cow that will take off through word of mouth. • Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned on marketing to women in Don’t Think Pink. The collective wisdom contained in The Marketing Guru can help any marketer on his or her journey to becoming a marketing guru. www.summary.com

The Marketing Gurus

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David Meerman Scott

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly

The benchmark guide to marketing and PR, updated with the latest social media and marketing trends, tools, and real-world examples of success 

The New Rules of Marketing & PR, 4th Edition is the pioneering guide to the future of marketing, an international bestseller with more than 300,000 copies sold in over 25 languages. It offers a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of modern marketing and PR to communicate with buyers directly, raise visibility, and increase sales. It shows how large and small companies, nonprofits, and other organizations can leverage Web-based content to get the right information to the right people at the right time for a fraction of the cost of big-budget campaigns. 

Including a wealth of compelling case studies and real-world examples of content marketing and inbound marketing success, this is a practical guide to the new reality of reaching buyers when they're eager to hear from you. 

 * Includes updated information, examples, and case studies plus an examination of newly popular tools such as Infographics, photo-sharing using Pinterest and Instagram, as well as expanded information on social media such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
 * David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, bestselling author of eight books including three international bestsellers, advisor to emerging companies including HubSpot, and a professional speaker on topics including marketing, leadership, and social media. Prior to starting his own business, he was marketing VP for two U.S. publicly traded companies and was Asia marketing director for Knight-Ridder, at the time one of the world's largest information companies.

The New Rules of Marketing & PR offers the single resource for entrepreneurs, business owners, nonprofit managers as well as those working in marketing or publicity departments to build a marketing and PR strategy to grow any business.

The New Rules of Marketing and PR

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Dave Kerpen

Theresa Braun

Valerie Pritchard

It pays to be LIKEABLE! You can have a rock-solid business strategy, unlimited resources, and the most talented people on staff. But only one thing is guaranteed in today’s hyperconnected society: if your business isn’t likeable, it will fail. Dave Kerpen knows how important it is for a business to be liked—by customers, employees, stakeholders, and the general public. He wrote the book on it. His groundbreaking bestseller Likeable Social Media changed the way businesses interact with their customers on a daily basis. Likeable Business lays out 11 strategies for organizations of all sizes to spur growth, profits, and overall success. Dave Kerpen reveals the remarkable returns you’ll get when you gain the trust of your customers and stakeholders. In today’s social media world, it literally pays to be likeable. Likeable Business helps any leader at a smallor mid-sized company increase profits and spur growth by applying the 11 principles of business likeability, such as: LISTENING—to customers, colleagues, shareholders—and competitors AUTHENTICITY—because today’s savvy customer always knows when you’re faking it TRANSPARENCY—honesty builds trust, and any deviation can destroy your reputation ADAPTABILITY—managing change and finding new opportunities is critical to success today SIMPLICITY—in design, in form, and in function GRATEFULNESS—every “thank you” is appreciated . . . and generates surprising returns! Likeability spreads. As a business leader, you set the tone. Be likeable and your staff will be likeable—which in turn creates a more likeable customer experience. The blueprint for everlasting business likeability is in your hands. Apply Kerpen’s basic principles day in and day out, and profits and growth are sure to follow. Praise for Likeable Business “Dave Kerpen has explained why customers expect more, and he gives you the tools to deliver on your brand promise. Be honest, be transparent, and be authentic. If you want to be likeable in business, you must read this book!” —Jeffrey Hayzlett, bestselling author of Running the Gauntlet and The Mirror Test “Dave Kerpen’s manifesto on becoming a likeable leader of a likeable business applies equally well to social entrepreneurs and the nonprofit sector. Gratitude is his concluding principle, and I sure am grateful to Dave for writing this book.” —Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org “Kerpen demonstrates how building a likeable culture may be the most vital and rewarding strategy of all.” —John Jantsch, author of The Commitment Engine and Duct Tape Marketing “This important, persuasive book will change the way you think about and operate your business. Anyone who hopes to lead successfully in the twenty-first century needs to read this book.” —Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, author of For Better or For Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families “From transparency to authenticity to the impact of sharing one’s values via story telling—Dave Kerpen’s blueprints on how to run a business move from ‘Likeable’ to essential. Ben & Jerry’s was founded on these values in 1978 and has practiced them through the company’s phenomenal growth to this very day. With communication at digital speeds in today’s corporate world, it’s no longer a choice to be responsible. Consumers choose to support businesses who practice values-led business. The opportunities when running your business in a responsible manner allow great freedom within your organization and externally with the ever-growing conscious consumer world around us.” —Jostein Solheim, CEO of Ben & Jerry’s “Dave provides a blueprint that allows entrepreneurs everywhere to build a successful, likeable business in this era of social media.” —Scott Gerber, founder of Young Entrepreneurs Council “A masterful storyteller, Dave Kerpen takes you on a journey into the wonderful new world of tomorrow. It’s a place where customers love you and ensure your business success. This is no wishful utopia. It’s a reality within reach if you follow the principles of Likeable Business.” —Michael Stelzner, CEO of Social Media Examiner and author of Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition “Social media teaches businesses how to be nicer to people—and be happier while doing it. This book will teach you how to make that change for your entire business—and make more money because you’re doing it.” —Andy Sernovitz, New York Times bestselling author of Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking “Likeability matters. It opens doors and minds and makes everything easier. But, how do you ‘build’ a likeable business? In Likeable Business, Kerpen shares a validated step-by-step path to likeability. A great read for entrepreneurs and executives alike!” —Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty and founder of Good Life Project “It’s simple; when people understand who you are and where you come from, they’re more likely to rally around your cause. Every company has its own unique history, one that’s worth sharing. At 1-800-GOT-JUNK? we’re passionate about sharing where we came from and where we’re headed not only with our customers and the public but within our own teams.” —Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? "An excellent book for anyone working in customer service, Kerpen’s work provides original ways of thinking about everyday actions. Recommended." (Starred Review) Publisher's Weekly

Likeable Business: Why Today's Consumers Demand More and How Leaders Can Deliver

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William Poundstone

John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb

Poundstone's three dimensional outline of game theory mathematics sketches the life of its inventor, John von Neumann, and his role in cold war policy making. There are also interesting descriptions of Neumann's childhood in the anti semitic environment of pre-WWII Hungary and his early conversion to Catholicism. It is to Neumann that we owe much of the terminology (MAD, first strike) that framed the discourse of the Cold War. This book is both frightening and essential for scholars of the Cold War, and a testament to a wayward and arrogant, mathematical genius.

Prisoner's Dilemma

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Michael Hyatt

Steve Gottry

Get Noticed in a Noisy World

Discusses how to create a platform and build an audience using social media technologies.

Platform

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David Newman

77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition

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 regainthe 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 decision-makers into your world * Get noticed *Position yourself as an expert * Become the obvious choice in your market * Do social media right * Zero in on your customers' pain/gain factors * Learn to speak their language * Get a steady stream of referrals * Identify and focus on high-payoff activities * 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.

Do It! Marketing

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Ryan Holiday

A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

A primer on the future of PR, marketing and advertising -- now revised and updated with new case studies

"Forget everything you thought you knew about marketing and read this book. And then make everyone you work with read it, too." --Jason Harris, CEO of Mekanism

Megabrands like Dropbox, Instagram, Snapchat, and Airbnb were barely a blip on the radar years ago, but now they're worth billions--with hardly a dime spent on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead, they relied on growth hacking to reach users and build their businesses.

Growth hackers have thrown out the old playbook and replaced it with tools that are testable, trackable, and scalable. They believe that products and businesses should be modified repeatedly until they're primed to generate explosive reactions.

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday, the acclaimed marketing guru for many successful brands, authors, and musicians, explains the new rules in a book that has become a marketing classic in Silicon Valley and around the world. This new edition is updated with cutting-edge case studies of startups, brands, and small businesses. 

Growth Hacker Marketing is the go-to playbook for any company or entrepreneur looking to build and grow.

Growth Hacker Marketing

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AuthorSupport.com

If You Want to Increase Your Sales Read This Book. It is That Simple.

How to Be a Great Salesperson... by Monday Morning

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Seth Godin

Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers

The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"--the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.

Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snatching our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth Godin calls this Interruption Marketing, and, as companies are discovering, it no longer works.

Instead of annoying potential customers by interrupting their most coveted commodity--time--Permission Marketing offers consumers incentives to accept advertising voluntarily. Now this Internet pioneer introduces a fundamentally different way of thinking about advertising products and services. By reaching out only to those individuals who have signaled an interest in learning more about a product, Permission Marketing enables companies to develop long-term relationships with customers, create trust, build brand awareness -- and greatly improve the chances of making a sale.

Permission Marketing

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Allan. Dib

WARNING: Do Not Read This Book If You Hate MoneyTo build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done.In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib reveals a marketing implementation breakthrough that makes creating a marketing plan simple and fast. It's literally a single page, divided up into nine squares. With it, you'll be able to map out your own sophisticated marketing plan and go from zero to marketing hero.Whether you're just starting out or are an experienced entrepreneur, The 1-Page Marketing Plan is the easiest and fastest way to create a marketing plan that will propel your business growth.In this groundbreaking new book you'll discover:* How to get new customers, clients or patients and how to make more profit from existing ones.* Why "big business" style marketing could kill your business and strategies that actually work for small and medium-sized businesses.* How to close sales without being pushy, needy, or obnoxious while turning the tables and having prospects begging you to take their money.* A simple step-by-step process for creating your own personalized marketing plan that is literally one page. Simply follow along and fill in each of the nine squares that make up your own 1-Page Marketing Plan.* How to annihilate competitors and make yourself the only logical choice.* How to get amazing results on a small budget using the secrets of direct response marketing.* How to charge high prices for your products and services and have customers actually thank you for it.

The 1-Page Marketing Plan

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Charles Duhigg

Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The Power of Habit

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Al Ries

Jack Trout

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Writing in their trademark witty, fast-paced style, advertising gurus Ries and Trout explain how to: Make and position an industry leader so that its name and message wheedles its way into the collective subconscious of your market-and stays there Position a follower so that it can occupy a niche not claimed by the leader Avoid letting a second product ride on the coattails of an established one. Positioning also shows you how to: Use leading ad agency techniques to capture the biggest market share and become a household name Build your strategy around your competition's weaknesses Reposition a strong competitor and create a weak spot Use your present position to its best advantage Choose the best name for your product Determine when-and why-less is more Analyze recent trends that affect your positioning. Ries and Trout provide many valuable case histories and penetrating analyses of some of the most phenomenal successes and failures in advertising history. Revised to reflect significant developments in the five years since its original publication, Positioning is required reading for anyone in business today.

Positioning: the Battle for Your Mind

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Nancy V. Wood

Business & Economics

This combination rhetoric/reader helps students develop strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, research, and writing that will help them argue clearly and convincingly. It teaches them to identify and develop arguments, to read and form reactions and opinions of their own, to analyze an audience, to seek common ground, and to use a wide, realistic range of techniques to write argument papers that express their individual views and original perspectives on modern issues. The Rhetoric portion includes clear explanations and examples of argument theory and reading and writing processes, research and documentation skills, and offers engaging, class-tested writing assignments and activities. The Reader portion includes 75 reading selections covering seven broad issue areas and 18 more focused areas, all of contemporary concern. Unique chapters discuss student argument styles, Rogerian argument, and argument and literature.

Perspectives on Argument

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David D'Alessandro

Michelle Owens

10 Rules for Building the Killer Brand

Branding has developed into one of the business world's hottest concepts, and for good reason. Branding is cited as the secret ingredient behind the tremendous corporate gains realized in recent years by companies ranging from FedEx, Rolex, Starbuck, Volvo, and most interestingly, John Hancock.

Brand Warfare

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Gerald Zaltman

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market

Despite the time and money spent on market research, 60% to 80% of new offerings fail.

How Customers Think

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Jordan

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