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Being smart about business means knowing what to expect. That means thinking ahead and preparing for the inevitable changes that will affect the way business is done. This allows businesses to be resilient and thrive in a changing environment. Digital marketing is no different.In fact, author Josh Kaufman discusses the value of comparison in his book The Personal MBA. It means imagining possible futures and then preparing for them.Let's say you have a large company that does well in a certain niche. Maybe you own a business that sells whey protein shakes. The mistake some big companies make is thinking they are too big to fail and sticking with it.But what if another company comes along and makes a better protein shake for less money? What if a new protein source is discovered? What if a study showed whey protein was bad for us? All of these things can happen and can seriously disrupt even the most established business.However, smart companies are already considering and preparing for these possibilities. It's a comparative simulation: you think about what's going to happen and then prepare for that eventuality.As a digital marketer, this means thinking about things that might change the face of marketing. And the one thing that probably had the biggest impact of all? AIAI and machine learning have the potential to completely change the face of internet marketing and even make many old strategies obsolete. Only by preparing for these changes can you ensure that your website can maintain its position in the SERPs, your ad campaigns remain profitable, and your services remain relevant.And a lot of this stuff isn't just speculation: it's happening right now. AI is already making waves, though you may not have noticed it yet.This affects how SEO works, the tools and software we use, and how ads are displayed. AI is capable of thinking faster and smarter than any human, and this is especially true for data-driven internet marketing. AI marketers can earn an unlimited amount Content per second - doing the work of hundreds of people. All of this content is perfectly adapted to the target group. AI will rule Google. This will advance the entire business model. AdWords will start. And it will play new instruments that we never even dreamed of. The uniqueness of digital marketing is just around the corner. This book will help you prepare and explain a number of concepts:¿ AI vs. machine learning¿ How to do SEO now that Google is the first AI company¿ Chatbots¿ Programmatic advertising¿ Great information¿ RankBrain¿ Digital assistant¿ Data Science¿ SQL¿ Hidden semantic indexing¿ The Future of Internet MarketingThis book will give you a crystal ball to look into the future of internet marketing and make sure you are prepared for all of these changes as they come. You end up being more prepared and in a better position than the other 99.9% of traders.

Learn the secrets of remembering names and memorizing the names of everybody you meet from master mentalist Kevin Viner. Unlock your natural memory with the power of The 3Cs!

A definition and model for understanding and profiting from personalization. You will get greater clarity and know which levers to pull for more profit.​​

The definitive text for students and scholars of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT), now fully updated and expanded to include the latest CCT research and consumption and marketplace phenomena.

In The Power of Value Selling: The Gold Standard to Drive Revenue and Create Customers for Life, accomplished sales leader and trainer Julie Thomas delivers a fresh and engaging perspective on how salespeople can adopt a customer-centric approach when selling to contemporary buyers. In the book, you'll discover a process that turns you into the trusted business advisor that buyers crave in unpredictable business environments. It's an actionable guide to better business conversations--the kind that build trust, forge human-to-human connections, and enable sellers to compete on value instead of price. The author explains the concept of value in modern sales, helping you to create winnable opportunities that result in premium pricing. You'll learn to make it easy for buyers to buy, sell to the C-suite, negotiate on value, close more business, expand your footprint, generate renewal sales year after year, and uncover additional buyer needs that will unlock new opportunities for more sales. The Power of Value Selling explains why how you sell is just as important as what you sell. You'll discover how to build credibility and rapport with your buyers, how to earn valuable time on their calendars, how to uncover business problems worth solving, and strategies to eliminate chances for buyers to delay or defer decisions. The Power of Value Selling is a comprehensive guide to a simple and powerful framework that accelerates sales, regardless of your product, service, or industry. It's an essential resource for both sales veterans and early-career sellers who want to keep things simple while driving real results in intensely competitive and challenging markets. For more, visit valueselling.com today.

Cold Email Manifesto distills the professional insights of “Cold Email King,” Alex Berman and business executive Robert Indries into actionable, clear chapters, explaining how sales professionals can generate millions for themselves or their clients via cold emails.

Unlock the secrets to becoming a top-performing Sales Engineer with The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers, a game-changing guide by Chris White. In this indispensable book, the author introduces a powerful, easy-to-remember framework based on six crucial habits that will elevate your technical selling skills and help you drive better results in every deal. Learn how to: Partner: Build strong, collaborative relationships with your sales team to ensure seamless synergy in every deal.Probe: Master the art of effective discovery by asking the right questions to uncover your customers' true needs and pain points.Prepare: Focus on crafting compelling stories rather than overwhelming your audience with features during demos.Practice: Sharpen your delivery with consistent and focused practice to boost confidence and engagement.Perform: Develop the essential skills to deliver captivating, customer-centric demonstrations that win business.Perfect: Embrace a mindset of continuous improvement to refine your craft and stay ahead of the competition. Whether you're a seasoned Sales Engineer looking to fine-tune your skills or new to the field and eager to excel, The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers provides the proven strategies, practical insights, and real-world examples needed to thrive in this challenging yet rewarding role. Start your journey toward success today with a guide that will help you perform at your best and win the trust of customers time and time again. Your next sales victory starts here!

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.

"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.