Strategic Agility in Marketing
This book offers a comprehensive guide to establishing marketing organizations and teams based on Agile principles. By emphasizing a customer-centric mindset, flexible structures, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous success measurement, agility empowers marketing teams to strengthen customer relationships, foster innovation, and amplify organizational impact. When implemented effectively, agile marketing positions teams as true business enablers within their organizations. In light of recent global challenges--such as the pandemic, economic shifts, and rapid technological advancements--the need for adaptability has become more critical than ever. This book delves into developing an agile mindset, values, and principles while providing practical methods and tools for operationalizing agile marketing. Readers will gain insights into positioning marketing as a strategic business enabler and thriving in dynamic environments, transforming marketing into a key success factor for their organizations. Targeted at marketing professionals, business leaders, and academics, this book is an essential resource for anyone looking to leverage agility to gain a competitive edge in today's fast-changing world.
The Personal Branding Playbook
Take control of your personal brand and become a person of influence today. Everyone has a personal brand. You have a personal brand with the people you work with, the people you love, the people who serve you your morning coffee and the people who you greet on your morning commute. Every single interaction we have builds a picture of who we are as a person - a personal brand. But what that personal brand looks like depends on whether or not you're willing to take control of your own narrative, or allow other people to write it for you. Written by Amelia Sordell, founder of one of the world's leading personal branding agencies, The Personal Branding Playbook: Turn your personality into your competitive advantage reveals the strategy and tactics Amelia used to build a reach of over 100 million people and a 100% inbound model. This tactical guidebook will first show you how to take control of your personal brand and build an entirely authentic reputation that drive real results. It's strategic take on leveraging your personality to win great clients, attract awesome opportunities and accelerate your personal and professional growth. The Personal Branding Playbook draws on Amelia's real life experience to show how you to: Craft your story. Design your personal brand strategy. Share your story with the world online. Build a community of loyal fans, not followers. Drive inbound leads, opportunities and introductions. Position you as the option, not just an option in your market. Engaging, practical and refreshingly honest, The Personal Branding Playbook: Turn your personality into your competitive advantage is packed with real failures, successes, lessons and strategies from the author, Amelia Sordell's life. This book is the ultimate guide to helping CEOs to freelancers and students leverage their unique personality to gain advantage, and become a person of influence.
Sales Psyche
In the relentless world of sales, where targets loom large and rejection can be a constant companion, the toll on your mind is often underestimated. This book is a transformative resource in the challenging world of sales. Unlike traditional manuals fixated on skillsets, this book delves into the overlooked realm of mental and emotional tools, fostering a healthy and high-performing mindset essential for getting results and developing a career in sales. The author addresses unspoken challenges in sales, offering essential insights, stories and tools to unlock full potential in mind management and nurture success. From overcoming limiting beliefs and reframing stress to building resilience, leveraging imposter syndrome and combating burnout--the silent sales killer - the book stands as a go-to resource for any salesperson. In fact, Sales Psyche is more than a guide - it's a comprehensive resource for any salesperson wanting to build a successful and sustainable career.
Marketing 5.0
Marketing 5.0: The Role of Human-Mimicking Technology focuses on 'human-mimicking technology' in the age of marketing, wherein consumers and technology are blended as one. It reimagines technology creating a human touch, which not only enhances the customer experience but also builds an ecosystem of personalised sense-and-respond experiences, leading towards greater sustainability. It is this age of Augmented and Agile marketing, which delivers tech-empowered human interaction at pace and scale, achieving the perils and promises of digitalization. Marketing is witnessing a shift from Marketing 4.0 to Marketing 5.0. In this change, there is a continuous struggle for gaining digital business presence. Marketing 5.0 introduces academics and marketers to the concept of human-mimicking technologies to create, communicate, deliver, and enhance value across the customer journey. The objective is to learn and understand the blended approach, where consumers and technology integrate as one. Marketing 5.0 explores the importance of technology to marketing 5.0 and will be of benefit to practitioners, academics, and industry researchers, and students at master's and doctoral levels.
Advances in Advertising Research XIII
This book provides insights into modern advertising's evolving landscape, revealing how digital innovation and social media have transformed communication strategies and consumer engagement. It addresses the crucial need to understand advertising's multifaceted nature in an era where digital platforms continually redefine brand-consumer interactions. Advances in Advertising Research are published by the European Advertising Academy (EAA). This volume is a selective collection of research presented at the 20th International Conference in Advertising (ICORIA), held in Prague (Czech Republic) in June 2022. This insightful collection is designed for academic researchers, instructors, students in advertising, communication, marketing, and media management, and professionals seeking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of advertising.
The AI Revolution
The AI Revolution: Strategies for Business Growth Amid Disruption In an era where technological advancement is the heartbeat of industry evolution, "The AI Revolution: Strategies for Business Growth Amid Disruption" is your guide to harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI). This book aims to demystify AI, revealing its profound potential for reshaping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and positioning them for unparalleled growth. So let's journey together through these chapters that lay the foundation for AI understanding. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a decision-maker, or a small or medium sized business owner, this book offers a robust framework to not only survive the wave of AI-driven change but to thrive within it. Embrace the AI revolution today and unlock a future of exponential growth!
Marketing Measurement and Analytics
Becoming a Public Relations Writer
The seventh edition of Becoming a Public Relations Writer serves as an essential guide to the writing process for public relations practice.
Ultimate Sales Tool Kit
Ultimate Sales Tool Kit gives you a wide array of fresh new tools you can start using immediately. The book provides helpful examples and unique visual exercises that help you remember how and when to use each one and work them into your routine.
Account-Based Marketing
Whether you're a B2B marketer learning about account-based marketing (ABM) for the first time, or an experienced account-based marketer who wants to keep up to date with the latest advances in the field, this book is the perfect guide to using ABM effectively in your business. From explaining how to design the right ABM strategy, to exploring the five types of ABM and how to decide which type to use with which customers, this guide will help you build your company's ABM capability through the right structure, processes and organization to deliver the best results. Written by the leading practitioner in ABM, Bev Burgess, this book will also help you prepare for the future of ABM as the world of marketing evolves with the introduction of generative AI, helping you to stay at the forefront of your professional practice. With real-world examples and perspectives from companies such as Accenture, AWS, NTT, Salesforce and Vodafone, this guide is a key resource for Account-Based Marketers everywhere, providing an up-to-date view of best practices in ABM globally and a look at how these practices are evolving.
Account-Based Marketing
Whether you're a B2B marketer learning about account-based marketing (ABM) for the first time, or an experienced account-based marketer who wants to keep up to date with the latest advances in the field, this book is the perfect guide to using ABM effectively in your business. From explaining how to design the right ABM strategy, to exploring the five types of ABM and how to decide which type to use with which customers, this guide will help you build your company's ABM capability through the right structure, processes and organization to deliver the best results. Written by the leading practitioner in ABM, Bev Burgess, this book will also help you prepare for the future of ABM as the world of marketing evolves with the introduction of generative AI, helping you to stay at the forefront of your professional practice. With real-world examples and perspectives from companies such as Accenture, AWS, NTT, Salesforce and Vodafone, this guide is a key resource for Account-Based Marketers everywhere, providing an up-to-date view of best practices in ABM globally and a look at how these practices are evolving.
Consumer Behaviour
With this textbook, students will learn the concepts, theories and processes of consumer behaviour and how to apply them in a digitalized and competitive business landscape. Consumer Behaviour combines theoretical underpinnings with real-world practice to provide comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the subject. It starts with an exploration of how consumer behaviour has evolved with the impact of technology, personalization and sustainability on perception and decision-making. Students will then learn about the psychological and social dynamics of consumer behaviour and the scientific foundations of learning and memory in brand engagement. Supported by international examples throughout, the textbook examines the role of AR/VR in retail experiences, the power of online communities and voice commerce, as well as the importance of good UX design. Crucially, it also delves into ethical considerations of the digital consumer landscape, including privacy and data concerns. Consumer Behaviour includes in-text learning features such as learning outcomes, key terms, a glossary and exercise questions to help develop critical thinking. It is supported by online resources of PowerPoint slides, videos and essay questions. This textbook is ideal for postgraduate students taking modules on Consumer Behaviour as part of their Marketing degrees.
Global Marketing
Global Marketing provides students with an understanding of how marketing works in today's globalized business landscape, covering key topics, theories and applications. Taking a holistic approach to the subject, this textbook includes chapters on global communications, cultural convergence and divergence and production considerations. There are discussions of standardization vs differentiation, cultural universals, brand equity and the encoding of marketing messaging. Crucially, it explores these topics from multiple stakeholder perspectives, providing further insight into how theories, when used in practice, may have different implications. Ethical considerations of marketing internationally are covered extensively, alongside important theoretical debates and critiques to support critical thinking. Global Marketing includes pedagogical features such as learning outcomes, end of chapter exercise questions and activities for students. There are real-world examples throughout from companies such as Disneyland, Guinness and Kinder, helping students to apply theoretical content within professional practice. It is supported by online resources of PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions and videos. This textbook is ideal for undergraduate students taking modules on Global Marketing as part of their degrees.