Knowledge - Books
Employee engagement is the great, untapped resource of most organizations. Yet only 25% of employees are truly engaged in their work. Why are all the others so reluctant to "get in the game"? WINNING WITH A CULTURE OF RECOGNITION: Recognition Strategies at the World's Most Admired Companies reveals the surprising answer: Most managers fail to formally recognize high performance and connect it with company culture. Salary and bonuses are only part of today's employment contract. To get everyone performing together, employers need to create a culture of appreciation, recognition, and reward.
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Terry Barber, the author of The Inspiration Factor, subtitled "How You Can Revitalize Your Company Culture in 12 Weeks," argues that regardless of your personality type, background, or age, you can choose to create an inspirational transaction and positively impact the people around you. "Inspiration is precursor to leadership, to motivation, and is even a new category for business," Barber says. His book offers seven principles that can help readers become team leaders in their organizations and inspire those around them.... [ read more ]
Are you struggling to remain an effective communicator in today's high-tech world? Are you feeling intimidated or overburdened by the constant barrage of text messages, emails, FaceBook and Twitter communications? Many corporate executives are, and that's why Elaine Stirling put together this book, which is subtitled "A Writing Manual & Style Guide for the Brave New Business Leader." It offers advice on how to communicate with clarity, confidence, and persuasive style in the workplace, whatever the medium.... [ read more ]
An all-in-one reference for marketers, divided into four parts with each part devoted to different aspects of sales promotion, from planning and techniques to strategies and issues. Each chapter is written by an expert with experience working in the field. Hundreds of examples and case histories are included.... [ read more ]
"The New Marketing Conversation" gives you a strategic blueprint for creating the kinds of dialogues customers want in ways that engage them. It covers insighful new ways to use testing and research more effectively and the best ways to build winning communications and creative strategies.... [ read more ]
Reviews 126 of the best recent sales promotion campaigns. Readers will develop a better understanding of what constitutes a successful promotion and of what a good promotion can—and can't—do. A straightforward book that is useful for readers with all levels of experience.... [ read more ]
"Selling Against the Goal" is a guide to understanding sales in a tight marketplace. Author Kendra Lee offers screts, tools, and tips to send you on the road to superstardom in sales, including: formulas for calculating a closing ration and leads needed to meet quotas, tips for targeting multiple levels of decision makers, strategies for generation leads via partnership organization, and much more. The book also includes samples of holiday cards, e-mails, invitations, and newletters that really work.... [ read more ]
Guides managers in the implementation of strategic brand leadership. Citing such brand-focused companies as Virgin, L.L. Bean, and Nike, the authors provide hundreds of case studies to support theories on building brand equity.... [ read more ]
"Strategies That Win Sales" addresses many of the most common issues in today's sales place. From the pressures of globalization to the growing popularity of reverse auctions, procurement committees, and other "arm's lenght" buying models, this book is perfect for any sales person looking to up profits.... [ read more ]
"The E-commerce Question and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for Business Managers" is a one volume encyclopedia of solution for any online business effort. This book touches on every conceivable e-commerce topic from innovative strategies to the technologies you'll need in order to implement them.... [ read more ]
Through the example to the Unixyx Corporation, Customers Mean Business, explores the attention and care customers need in order to keep buying from a company. With a helpful six stage process called "Customerize," this book is good for anyone looking to get on the cutting edge of customer service.... [ read more ]
Deals extensively with the field of sales promotion planning and analysis: how promotions affect sales and profits, types of sales promotions, the interaction of promotion and advertising, and future research. Particularly good for marketers involved in packaged goods promotion.... [ read more ]
Discusses how e-business systems can provide the information required to effectively manage customer needs, business strategy, technology, and customer relationships, specific techniques for improving value chains and business intelligence, incorporate e-commerce into your business model, and the coming e-society.... [ read more ]
Customer Centered Growth reveals the secrets to company growth by putting the customer at the center of your efforts. Using dozens of case studies, the authors outline five strategies that a company can use to grow no matter what the business conidition.... [ read more ]
A comprehensive handbook on advertising and sales promotion, covering strategic and tactical issues. Includes examples of creative advertising campaigns. The four parts of this textbook cover: Introduction to advertising and sales promotion, Communication strategy, Sales promotion strategy and Planning advertising and sales promotion.... [ read more ]
"You Can Negotiate Anything" explains the three crucial elements of negotiation and how to bargain successfully. ... [ read more ]
A summary of everything you need to know concerning the world of on-line business.... [ read more ]
Explores how marketers must look beyond traditional media to communicate with consumers in the changing field of advertising and promotion. Describes the shift from conventional methods to implementation of an integrated marketing communications strategy and reviews the promotional tools available to help make the transition.... [ read more ]
From Contact to Contract gives you easy to apply information on the world of sales. With 496 sales tips to do such things as generate more leads, close more deals, and exceed your goals, which will ultimely make you more money, this book is perfect for any salesperson.... [ read more ]
The definitive advertising and promotion management text for students at the MBA level. Emphasizes corporate communications and business products/services in addition to the traditional focus on consumer packaged goods.... [ read more ]
Explains the basics of a wide range of sales promotion techniques and makes suggestions for effective implementation.... [ read more ]
Marketing to Women focuses on the very vast and competative market of women. Author, Barletta, explains why companies should spend more money focusing the largest untapped market in the world. With chapters exploring gender through anthropology, biochemistry, and psyhcology, this truely captures the field of marketing to women.... [ read more ]
Guides managers in the implementation of strategic brand leadership. Citing such brand-focused companies as Virgin, L.L. Bean, and Nike, the authors provide hundreds of case studies to support theories on building brand equity.... [ read more ]
In this groundbreaking book, co-author Jim Loehr, Ed.D., co-founder of the Human Performance Institute, demonstrates how managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. At the heart of the program is the Corporate Athlete® Training System. It offers a a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully, both on and off the job.... [ read more ]
This book details the challenges of promotional marketing through a chronological history starting in the 1950s. The last section looks to the future.... [ read more ]
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