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No one raves about boring movies, bland customer service experiences, or sleep-inducing classes. The world is rapidly transforming into an experience economy as people increasingly crave extraordinary experiences. Experience designers, marketers, entertainment producers, and retailers have long sought to fill this craving. Now, there's a scientific formula to consistently create extraordinary experiences. The data shows that those who use this formula increase the impact of experiences tenfold. Creating the extraordinary used to be extraordinarily hard. Immersion offers a framework for transforming nearly any situation from ordinary to extraordinary. Based on twenty years of neuroscience research from his lab and innumerable client applications, Dr. Paul J. Zak explains why brains crave the extraordinary. Clear instructions and examples show readers exactly how to create amazing experiences for customers, prospects, employees, audiences, and learners. You can guess if your experience will be extraordinary-or you can apply the insights from Immersion to ensure it is.

From the "godfather of content marketing"-this completely revised and expanded edition brings marketers fully up to date on the newest content marketing methods and tools, including Web3When Epic Content Marketing was first published eight years ago, content marketing was just starting to pick up speed in the marketing world. Now, this approach-which includes everything from blogging to YouTube videos to social media-is the core of most organizations' marketing plans.Fully revised and updated, this new edition walks you through the process of developing stories that inform and entertain and compel customers to act, without actually telling them to. In addition to covering all the important social media platforms that have arisen over the past eight years and introducing the "creator economy," it shows how to update existing content and make new content that performs in strategic ways. Updates include:New content models, structures, and opportunitiesContent entrepreneurship, content mergers and acquisitionsSubscriptions and audience buildingTeam structure, importance of community, DAOs, and creator networksContent options, NFTs, and discord serversMaking data-driven decisions to optimize content performanceDistributed the right way at the right time, epic content is the best way to truly capture the hearts and minds of customers. It's how to position your business as a trusted expert in its industry. It's what customers share and talk about. This updated edition of the trusted guide provides everything you need to succeed in the new world of content marketing.

Whether you're standing up in front of a crowd at a conference or chatting with a colleague on Zoom, storytelling is the most effective way to get your point across. It works in 90 second Superbowl TV spots, it works in 10 second social media formats, and it works in that email you have to fire off in 5 seconds flat.Why? The short answer is that people don't make decisions based on logic. They make decisions based on emotions. To persuade, influence and inspire, you need to make an emotional connection. And storytelling is the best way of doing that.Journalist-turned-business coach Mark Edwards has developed his own methodology - SUPERB - for telling compelling stories at work. From the classic Hero's Journey to why we all need to Save a Cat, Best Story Wins shows how storytelling will make better communicators of us all.

The old way of selling was to create safe, ordinary products and combine them with mass marketing. The new way is to create truly innovative products and build the marketing right in. But how does a brand make the transition from old to new? According to advertising gurus Alex Bogusky and John Winsor, it starts with the realization that the message is not the product, the product is the message. In Baked-In, they offer a step-by-step guide on how brands can adapt and thrive in this brave new world. Using these tools, Bogusky and Winsor have successfully marketed some of todays most important brands, including Google, Nike, Microsoft, Patagonia, Toyota, and Burger King. They reveal how, through tools at hand product design, brand history, internal collaboration and the new tools of digital technology YouTube and the web in general companies can succeed in the 21st-century marketplace.

The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are the fastest-growing age group.Longevity presents an opportunity that companies need to develop a strategy for. Estimates put the global market for this demographic at a whopping $22 trillion across every industry you can imagine. Entertainment, travel, education, health care, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, product design, tech, financial services, and many others will benefit, but only if marketers unlearn what they think they know about this growing population.The key is to stop thinking of older adults as one market. Stage (Not Age) is the concise guide to helping companies understand that people over sixty are a deeply diverse population. They're traveling through different life stages and therefore want and need different products and services.This book helps you reset your understanding of what an old person is. It demonstrates how three people, all seventy years old, may not even be in the same market segment. It identifies the systemic barriers to entering this market and provides ways to overcome them. And it shares the best practices of companies that have successfully shifted to a Stage (Not Age) mentality.This practical guide prepares companies and marketers for an inevitable shift they can't ignore.

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From effective SEO and Search marketing to mastering mobile and content marketing, THE ULTIMATE DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately. Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises. This is your complete course in digital marketing.

An incisive and accessible blueprint to pricing your company's products and servicesIn The Pricing Model Revolution: How Pricing Will Change the Way We Sell and Buy On and Offline, world renowned pricing expert Danilo Zatta delivers an essential and engaging blueprint to building an enduring competitive advantage with insightful pricing models. In the book, you'll learn to identify the best monetization approaches for your products and how to execute the one that makes the most sense for your business. From freemium to subscription, pay-per-use, and even neuropricing, the author discusses every available option and shows you how to choose.Although it's rigorous and evidence backed, The Pricing Model Revolution avoids an overly academic perspective in favour of providing you with concrete, practical guidance you can apply immediately to start generating more revenue. You'll learn things like:* How to make smart and innovative pricing a core component of your next product offering* How to distinguish between every new, future-oriented monetization approach* Which factors to consider when you're choosing on a new pricing model for your most popular productsAn essential read for C-level executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and sales team leaders, The Pricing Model Revolution belongs on the bookshelves of every business leader seeking to learn more about one of the foundational topics driving top-line revenue and bottom-line profitability today.

The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business SuccessBlending cutting-edge research in social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Science of Selling shows you how to align the way you sell with how our brains naturally form buying decisions, dramatically increasing your ability to earn more sales. Unlike other sales books, which primarily rely on anecdotal evidence and unproven advice, Hoffeld’s evidence-based approach connects the dots between science and situations salespeople and business leaders face every day to help you consistently succeed, including proven ways to: - Engage buyers’ emotions to increase their receptiveness to you and your ideas - Ask questions that line up with how the brain discloses information - Lock in the incremental commitments that lead to a sale - Create positive influence and reduce the sway of competitors - Discover the underlying causes of objections and neutralize them - Guide buyers through the necessary mental steps to make purchasing decisions Packed with advice and anecdotes, The Science of Selling is an essential resource for anyone looking to succeed in today's cutthroat selling environment, advance their business goals, or boost their ability to influence others.**Named one of The 20 Most Highly-Rated Sales Books of All Time by HubSpot

"If I had 1 hour to solve a problem [...] I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes." - Albert EinsteinIn Winning the Game with UX Design & CRO, Author and website design authority Alexander R├Ñdahl draws on years of experience in high-end website development to offer you time-tested methods that any website developer can use to optimize your website''s user experience, in order to significantly improve conversion rate, click-through percentages and customer engagement metrics.In this invaluable user experience and CRO guide, you will learn ''real-world'' tested methods that can be effectively applied around the globe by website designers, with any level of prior experience:How to build websites that convert at optimum levels using CRO and UI UX Design, in a perfect marriage of web design, target audience identification and engagementHow to use the 5 main principles that will maximize your website conversion rate: clarity, simplicity, credibility, urgency and social proof.Insider secrets about how CRO is used by tech giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Shopify... and how you can use the same approaches to exponentially expand your engagement.The Top 3 CRO strategies that top website designers use to stimulate sales and visibility - UX research and optimization, sales funnel analysis and A/B testing.The CRO tools that tech professionals use and how even beginning e-commerce business owners can use them to increase sales - Google Analytics, Google Search, Heap Analytics, Hotjar and more.Whether you want to start experimenting with an upgraded website design, or need some inspiration for your next project, Winning the Game with UX Design & CRO has something for everyone. Get ready to take your web designs to another level by implementing these simple changes!

In Evolutionary Ideas, Sam Tatam shows how behavioural science and evolutionary psychology can help us solve tomorrow's challenges, not by divining something the world has never seen, but by borrowing from yesterday's solutions

This book is to help people avoid challenges, heartache, and pitfalls in life and business. You no longer have to learn these lessons The Hard Way like Brad did. If Brad had this book growing up and applied what's in it, his life would have been much better, and he would have found success much sooner. The goal for this book is that it finds its way to anyone wanting to succeed. You will learn these lessons one way or another, but the question is are you going to learn it The Hard Way or the easy way; the easy way is by reading The Hard Way. This book explains life lessons and universal laws that you need to be successful. This a collection of stories and the lessons Brad Lea has learned to help him build an incredible life and ultimately it is his bible on how to do sales, business, and life. Learn more about Brad by subscribing to his YouTube channel at BRADLEA.TV or checking out his website at Bradlea.com. This book is intended to change your life- let it happen and remember to always keep it real.

Transform your marketing and turn customers into evangelists.

25 quick, simple and practical lessons anyone can apply to begin a creative marketing strategy.

New in the Economist Edge series: how brands can create enduring bonds with customers and markets in the post-digital age of social influence.

Sales Enablement 3.0 Is Both an Art and Science! There are no magical silver bullets or single approach that will guarantee that you will be successful! There is, however, a formula just like any other success process, program, or tool that requires a combination of practical application, trial and error, mixed with a lot of conversations with Sales leaders to understand their wants, needs, and expectations. At its core Sales Enablement 3.0 is an innovative, approach focused on increasing sales productivity through a systematic, personalized, and collaborative approach designed to support buyers that will fuel the conversation economy and impact revenue!This book will provide you with a blueprint that will help you to navigate the twists and turns that will ultimately lead you to designing, deploying, measuring and iterating a world class sales enablement organization.Always remember, the number one question that every sales enablement practitioner should ask when approaching a new company initiative or program is, "What problem are we trying to solve"? This will keep you out of all of the "noise" surrounding "training needs". Training is NOT the answer to all problems and should NEVER be the first response given. Sales enablement is not what keeps the doors open in a company, however, I can guarantee you that poor or lack of strategic, long-term, consistent and repeatable enablement strategy will lead to the doors closing! #HopeIsNotAStrategy

The retail industry and associated business models have gone through a significant phase of disruption. The rapid emergence of new technologies, digital business models and the evolution of social media platforms as a new sales channel continue to influence the sector. Key contextual or external trends will affect and shape the retail landscape in the years to come. Therefore, it seems important to prepare for this situation and be ready with a head start in terms of knowledge. This textbook provides its readers basic knowledge about the national and international retail sector and gives important insights into trends and developments. It deals with key trends, in particular new patterns of personal consumption, evolving geopolitical dynamics, technological advancements and structural industry shifts. Moreover, it explains why it is so important that retailers use these trends, adapt their retail strategies and tactics, create strong brands and come up with innovative, new ways of doing business. Today we are living in a challenging time for retail. This textbook tries to give insights and explanations to better understand these challenges and provide managerial implications.

Harness new models of advertising to create commercial stability within a changing digital landscape.

Explore Amazon's disruptive new retail strategies, its impact on the wider eCommerce sector, and gain valuable lessons that can be applied to retailers globally.

The practical guide that gives you the skills to succeed at sellingDK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style.Find out how to improve your sales skills through marketing, presenting your product and negotiating successfully. You'll discover how to research your market, target your audience and perfect your pitch. In a slim, portable format Essential Managers gives you a practical 'how-to' approach with step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists and 'ask yourself' features showing you how to focus your energy, manage change and make an impact.If you are keen to brush up on or enhance your sales skills, this is the guide for you.

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book offers something for everyone working with market segmentation: practical guidance for users of market segmentation solutions;