"Only 26 percent of Americans believe that advertisers 'practice integrity.'
It's hard to blame them for thinking this way. Thanks largely to the reduced cost of promoting a business online, our lives are flooded with totally unregulated online advertisements and professional-looking but misleading websites.
Meanwhile, business owners and marketers must sift through the glut of promises that these digital tools will transform their business. As a result, it is easy to be duped, to fail, and then wonder if digital marketing—and indeed any marketing—might work at all.
In The Invisible Promise, Harry Beckwith, New York Times bestselling author of the iconic marketing classic, Selling the Invisible, applies his forty-plus years of advising businesses on every continent and his research in the last ten years to impart the proven guidance that businesses of all sizes desperately need. In this new age in marketing, he details how to build digital and nondigital messages that enhance your reputation for integrity; that stand out from the clutter; and that can produce exponential growth while saving you both time and money."
"What do Howard Hughes and 50 Cent have in common, and what do they tell us about Americans and our desires? Why did Sean Connery stop wearing a toupee, and what does this tell us about American customers for any product? What one thing did the Beatles, Malcolm Gladwell and Nike all notice about Americans that helped them win us over? Which uniquely American traits may explain the plights of Krispy Kreme, Ford, and GM, and the risks faced by Starbuck's? Why, after every other plea failed, did 'Click It or Ticket' get people to buy the idea of fastening their seat belts?
To paraphrase Don Draper's character on the hit show Mad Men, 'What do people want?' What is the new American psyche, and how do America's shrewdest marketers tap it? Drawing from dozens of disciplines, the internationally acclaimed marketing expert Harry Beckwith answers these questions with some surprising, even startling, truths and discoveries about what motivates us."
"SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as:
- Greatness May Get You Nowhere - Focus Groups Don'ts - The More You Say, the Less People Hear & - Seeing the Forest Around the Falling Trees."
