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Learn proven principles to create and maintain a clear, effective marketing strategy that attracts your ideal clients, generates greater profits, and is easy for you and your team to follow.
Marketing has changed drastically with the introduction of a growing array of digital channels and it's difficult for small business owners and marketing executives to keep up. As a result, marketing initiatives have become fragmented as marketers focus on individual aspects of their plan, rather than executing an overall strategy.
Using the principles that he teaches in his first book, on his podcast, and in his blog, John Jantsch, founder of the marketing platform Duct Tape Marketing, teaches you how to create and maintain a simple, effective, and clear marketing strategy that you and your teams can easily follow.
In Ultimate Marketing Engine, you will learn:
- Why having a strategy is so important and how an effective strategy will render the competition irrelevant.
- How to cultivate relationships with their target audience.
- How to find the tactics that are in plain view and capitalize on them.
- That your brand is what your customers say it is and why a strategy is essential to guiding that narrative.
- The value of content as the voice of strategy.
Strategy is the crucial first step to a solid marketing foundation for a company's brand and products. This book will help readers create and maintain that foundation.
Accompanying figures are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
A guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey
The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs, and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain the thoughts and writings of notable American authors. Designed as a daily devotional, it is arranged in a calendar format, and features readings of transcendentalist literature and others.
Each of The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur meditations is followed by a reflection and a challenging question from John Jantsch. He draws on his lifetime of experience as a successful coach for small business and startup leaders to offer an entrepreneurial context. Jantsch shows how entrepreneurs can learn to trust their ideas and overcome the doubt and fear of everyday challenges. The book contains: a unique guide to meditations, especially designed for entrepreneurs; a range of topics such as self-awareness, trust, creativity, resilience, failure, growth, freedom, love, integrity, and passion; an inspirational meditation for each day of the year . . . including leap year; and reflections from John Jantsch, small business marketing expert and the author of the popular book Duct Tape Marketing.
To grow your business in today's economy, you need a strong online presence. But what does that entail exactly? Marketing is no longer about mass-market advertising and outbound sales; it's about capturing demand - grabbing the attention of people already looking to make a purchase or acquire specific knowledge. To do that, your content needs to be at the top of Internet search results.
Many businesses and marketers toss up a brochure-style website, do a little social media and blog posting (if any), and think they're "doing SEO" - but that's not what it takes to get those coveted first-page Google rankings. No longer just another tactic, search engine optimization has become a full-blown channel on par with PR and advertising - one you can't afford to ignore. From website designers to business owners, marketers to entrepreneurs, everyone can benefit from understanding and applying SEO best practices.
John Jantsch, author of the best-selling Duct Tape Marketing and creator of the Duct Tape Marketing SystemTM, and Phil Singleton, an experienced SEO consultant with years of experience at the local, regional, and national levels, have teamed up to provide you with the only Internet marketing guide you need. In SEO for Growth, they teach you how to leverage the new rules of search engine optimization to make sure your website gets found online. Jantsch and Singleton harness the knowledge they've acquired through years of experience and extensive research, explaining SEO in a direct and accessible manner, to help you navigate this complex technical terrain with purpose and ease. Whether you want to adapt your small business to the digital age or you're a marketer figuring out how to help your clients online, this indispensable guide has everything you need to plan and implement the right SEO strategy for your business.
Many of the areas that salespeople struggle with these days have long been the domain of marketers, according to bestselling author John Jantsch. The traditional business model dictates that marketers own the message while sellers own the relationships. But now, Jantsch flips the usual sales approach on its head.
It's no longer enough to view a salesperson's job as closing. Today's superstars must attract, teach, convert, serve, and measure while developing a personal brand that stands for trust and expertise.
In Duct Tape Selling, Jantsch shows how to tackle a changing sales environment, whether you're an individual or charged with leading a sales team. You will learn to think like a marketer as you:
-Create an expert platform
-Become an authority in your field
-Mine networks to create critical relationships within your company and among your clients
-Build and utilize your Sales Hourglass
-Finish the sale and stay connected
-Make referrals an automatic part of your process As Jantsch writes: "Most people already know that the days of knocking on doors and hard-selling are over. But as I travel around the world speaking to groups of business owners, marketers, and sales professionals, the number one question I'm asked is, 'What do we do now?'
"I've written this book specifically to answer that question. At the heart of it, marketing and sales have become activities that no longer simply support each other so much as feed off of each other's activity. Sales professionals must think and act like marketers in order to completely reframe their role in the mind of the customer."
Why are some companies able to continuously create committed fans and customers-the kind who are more than willing to pay a premium to be part of the brand-while others struggle to create a presence in the market?
Why do the employees of some organizations fully dedicate themselves to the enterprise, while others punch the clock with mild disinterest?
How is it that one service can acquire millions of free trial users, but fail to convert any of them to premium paid subscriptions, while another similar service attracts and converts loyal paid subscribers and viral advocates at bankable rates?
By studying the ins-and-outs of companies that have endured extraordinary devotion from their customers, Jantsch reveals the systemic path to genuine commitment, for employees and consumers alike. Jantsch shows that people commit to companies, products and stories that they understand and believe in; the companies that understand this reality focus their marketing strategies around the purpose of their product instead of the product itself.
Jantsch has put together a list of characteristics and strategies integral to achieving high levels of commitment that can be found in any company that boasts loyal employees and customers.
As a follow-up to The Referral Engine, this is about more than just establishing leads-it's about keeping them for life.
Learn to make your small business marketing as simple, effective, and affordable as duct tape.
In Duct Tape Marketing, renowned small business marketing guru John Jantsch shows you how to develop and execute a marketing plan that will give your business the life and longevity you want.
In this audio book you will learn the Duct Tape Marketing system and how to apply its principles to your business by following three steps:
-First, learn the basics necessary to get customers to know, like, and trust you more.
-Next, master the essential Duct Tape System components to get your customers to contact and refer you more.
-Finally, really get on a roll by discovering what really works and tuning your business to doing more of it.
This audio book provides proven, yet elegantly simple tools to help you grow your small business.
The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane; word-of-mouth referrals are what drive business today. People trust the recommendation of a friend, family member, colleague, or even a stranger with similar tastes over anything thrust at them by a faceless company. Most business owners believe that whether customers refer them is entirely out of their hands. But science shows that people can't help recommending products and services to their friends-it's an instinct wired deep in the brain. And smart businesses can tap into that hardwired desire. Marketing expert John Jantsch offers practical techniques for harnessing the power of referrals to ensure a steady flow of new customers. Keep those customers happy, and they will refer your business to even more customers. Some of Jantsch's strategies include: - Talk with your customers, not at them. Thanks to social networking sites, companies of any size have the opportunity to engage with their customers on their home turf as never before-but the key is listening. - The sales team is the most important part of your marketing team. Salespeople are the company's main link to customers, who are the main source of referrals. Getting them on board with your referral strategy is critical. - Educate your customers. Referrals are helpful only if they're given to the right people. Educate your customers about whom they should be talking to. The secret to generating referrals lies in understanding the "Customer Referral Cycle"-the way customers refer others to your company who, in turn, generate even more referral s. Businesses can ensure a healthy referral cycle by moving customers and prospects along the path of Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat, and Refer. If everyone in an organization keeps this sequence in mind, Jantsch argues, your business will generate referrals like a well-oiled machine. This practical, smart, and original guide is essential for any company looking to grow without a fat marketing budget.
