StrategyMan vs. the Anti-Strategy Squad: Using Strategic Thinking to Defeat Bad Strategy and Save Your Plan by Rich Horwath Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/strategyman-rich-horwath MEDAL WINNER: AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS From the New York Times bestselling author on strategy All over the world, strategies are dying. Thousands of businesses face bankruptcy. People's jobs are at stake. But what is the nefarious force killing them off? And who can s...
Oct 11, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/hello-my-name-awesome-alexandra-watkins Every year, 6 million companies and more than 100,000 products are launched. They all need an awesome name, but many (such as Xobni, Svbtle, and Doostang) look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game. In this entertaining and engaging book, ace naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains ...
Oct 04, 2019•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning by William Ammerman Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/invisible-brand-william-ammerman Marketers are harnessing the enormous power of AI to drive unprecedented results The world of marketing is undergoing major change. Sophisticated algorithms can test billions of marketing messages and measure results, and shift the weight of campaigns―all in real time. What’s n...
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marketing to the Entitled Consumer by Dave Frankland Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/marketing-entitled-consumer-dave-frankland TODAY'S CONSUMERS WANT EVERYTHING. YOU SHOULD GIVE IT TO THEM. Marketers face a paradox. Consumers expect your brand to know everything about them-who they are, what they want, and why-and to deliver it at the exact moment they need it. But ad saturation and inbox clutter make them resent everything marketers do. In this ...
Sep 20, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/indistractable-nir-eyal You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you’re about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your m...
Sep 13, 2019•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Innovation Mandate: The Growth Secrets of the Best Organizations in the World by Nicholas Webb Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/innovation-mandate-nicholas-webb In this constantly shifting world, companies must innovate if they want to survive. In clear language, The Innovation Mandate shows leaders a step-by-step process to continually generate great ideas, implement them, and maximize their value to benefit both customers and investors. In to...
Sep 06, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Science of Customer Connections: Manage Your Message to Grow Your Business by Jim Karrh Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/science-customer-connections-jim-karrh Engaging, practical, and immediately useful for any business and its messengers on how to talk about their business and connect with their customers. The vast majority of word of mouth happens offline, in everyday conversations. In The Science of Customer Connections , Karrh offers simpl...
Aug 30, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business by Tiffani Bova Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/growth-iq-tiffani-bova A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Do you know the best way to drive your company's growth? If not, it's time to boost your Growth IQ. Trying to find the one right move that will improve your business's performance can feel overwhelming. But, as you'll discover in Growth IQ, there are just ten simple--...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea by Oren Klaff Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/flip-script-oren-klaff THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PITCH ANYTHING IS BACK TO FLIP YOUR ENTIRE APPROACH TO PERSUASION. Is there anything worse than a high-pressure salesperson pushing you to say "yes" (then sign on the dotted line) before you're ready? If there's one lesson Oren Klaff has learned over decades of pitching, presenting, and clo...
Aug 16, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rehumanize Your Business: How Personal Videos Accelerate Sales and Improve Customer Experience by Ethan Beute and Stephen Pacinelli Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/rehumanize-your-business-ethan-beute Accelerate sales and improve customer experience Every day, most working professionals entrust their most important messages to a form of communication that doesn't build trust, provide differentiation, or communicate clearly enough. It's easy to poi...
Aug 09, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--and How to Fix It by John Brandt Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/nincompoopery-john-brandt Find and kill the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy. CEO and award-winning business writer John R. Brandt offers concrete examples of how any organization--large or small, and regardless of industry--can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Nincompoopery--terrible cust...
Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast FRICTION―The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage by Roger Dooley Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/friction-roger-dooley In 2016, $4.6 trillion of merchandise was left in abandoned e-commerce shopping carts. Every year, the U.S. economy loses $3 trillion dollars in productivity due to excess bureaucracy. Red tape and over-complicated licenses have contributed to China’s GDP exceeding India’s by $82 trillion over the span of just ...
Jul 26, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast From Impossible to Inevitable: How SaaS and Other Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue 2nd Edition by Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/impossible-inevitable-2nd-edition-aaron-ross Break your revenue records with Silicon Valley’s “growth bible” “ This book makes very clear how to get to hyper-growth and the work needed to actually get there ” Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else see...
Jul 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Leadership in Focus: Bringing Out Your Best on Camera by Vern Oakley Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/leadership-focus-vern-oakley If a message feels important enough for video, it's likely because you want to move the audience to action potential investors to take a stake in your company, current employees to embrace a new initiative, prospective employees to bring their talents to your organization. Your video can help you inspire your tribe the ...
Jul 12, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Fire Them Now: The 7 Lies Digital Marketers Sell...And the Truth about Political Strategies that Help Businesses Win by Phillip Stutts Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/fire-them-now-phillip-stutts Your digital marketing firm is failing your business, not delivering on the kind of passion, commitment, and innovation they promised. To ensure that you're getting the best, you need to know how to demand better--by learning from the incredible strategie...
Jul 05, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Art and Skill of Sales Psychology: Why Buyers and Sellers Do What They Do by Brad McDonald Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/art-skill-sales-psychology-brad-mcdonald The ART AND SKILL OF SALES PSYCHOLOGY lays out, in accessible terms that any sales professional can understand, how to identify and learn from the psychological motivators that cause buyers and sellers to do what they do. The book offers clarity and control over the sales process to...
Jun 28, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast F#ck Content Marketing: Focus on Content Experience to Drive Demand, Revenue & Relationships by Randy Frisch Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/fck-content-marketing-randy-frisch F#ck Content Marketing isn't a book for content marketers. Instead, it's for everyone in the organization who needs better context and direction for how to drive demand, revenue, and relationships with content. Truly effective companies (and marketers) create content experie...
Jun 21, 2019•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price by Keenan Click here for show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/gap-selling-by-keenan People don't buy from people they like. No! Your buyer doesn't care about you or your product or service. It's not your job to overcome objections, it's your buyer's. Closing isn't a skill of good salespeopl...
Jun 14, 2019•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Referral Engine by John Jantsch Click here for the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/the-referral-engine-john-jantsch The small business guru behind Duct Tape Marketing shares his most valuable lesson: how to get your customers to do your best marketing for you. 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, col...
Jun 07, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Why Customers Leave (and How to Win Them Back) by David Avrin Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/why-customers-leave-david-avrin Discover the 24 reasons people are leaving you for competitors and how to win them back. In Why Customers Leave, popular customer experience and marketing speaker David Avrin makes a compelling case for customer experience as a bankable differentiator in an era of vast marketplace choices. The book lays out the very...
May 31, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marketing to Mindstates: The Practical Guide to Applying Behavior Design to Research and Marketing by Will Leach Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/marketing-to-mindstates-will-leach Your nonconscious mind will filter out more than 99 percent of marketing you "see" today. Traditional marketing simply doesn't work in today's complex world. To reach today's customers and influence their purchases, marketers and market researchers need to unders...
May 24, 2019•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast ICONIC: How Organizations and Leaders Attain, Sustain, and Regain the Highest Level of Distinction by Scott McKain Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/iconic-scott-mckain What if merely “standing out” from your competition isn’t enough to take your brand and business to the highest level? How do you become an iconic organization or leader? Being distinctive in the marketplace used to be the pinnacle of success. In today’s global marketplace, t...
May 17, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Transparency Sale: How Unexpected Honesty and Understanding the Buying Brain Can Transform Your Results by Todd Caponi Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/transparency-sale-todd-caponi Buyers today have knowledge at their fingertips and most of their information gathering will routinely happen before you even walk through the door or get them on the phone. Armed with information, their guard is up – and they are skeptical. Today, anyone bu...
May 10, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Non-Obvious Guide To Small Business Marketing (Without A Big Budget) by Rohit Bhargava Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/small-business-marketing-rohit-bhargava Most business guidebooks treat you like a dummy or an idiot. Not this one. This is a short and easy-to-read guidebook filled with useful, no bullshit, only-what-you-need-to-know, immediately actionable advice for marketing your business or startup. The book focuses on the most co...
May 03, 2019•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast SPEAR Selling: The ultimate Account-Based Sales guide for the modern digital sales professional by Jamie Shanks Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/spear-selling-jamie-shanks The ultimate Account-based Sales guide for the modern, digital seller. SPEAR Selling is the battle-tested process for both sales leaders and sales professionals to leverage in their pursuit for greater account-based sales results. Author Jamie Shanks has trained and advis...
Apr 26, 2019•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Smash the Funnel: The Cyclonic Buyer Journey--A New Map for Sustainable, Repeatable, Predictable Revenue Generation by Mike Lieberman Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/smash-funnel-mike-lieberman Your Sales Funnel Has a Fatal Flaw The sales funnel was invented over a century ago. No wonder it’s not working like it used to! How can you drive company revenue in an age when customers hold all the power, the lines between sales and marketing hav...
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Customer Centricity Playbook: Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value by Peter Fader and Sarah Toms Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/customer-centricity-playbook-peter-fader How did global gaming company Electronic Arts go from being named “Worst Company in America” to clearing a billion dollars in profit? They discovered a simple truth—and acted on it: Not all customers are the same, regardless of how they appear...
Apr 12, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Conversational Marketing: How the World's Fastest Growing Companies Use Chatbots to Generate Leads 24/7/365 (and How You Can Too) by David Cancel and Dave Gerhardt Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/conversational-marketing-david-cancel Real-time conversations turn leads into customers Conversational Marketing is the definitive guide to generating better leads and closing more sales. Traditional sales and marketing methods have failed to keep...
Apr 05, 2019•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred by Steve Woodruff Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/clarity-wins-steve-woodruff In a world filled with noise and distraction, the secret weapon any business can use to break through is CLARITY. Clarity of strategy (leading to focused direction), and clarity of messaging (leading to sales and referrals). Clarity Wins is a proven handbook to create competitive advantage in any marketplace. The reader will ...
Mar 29, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It by Tien Tzuo Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/subscribed-tien-tzuo Subscription companies are growing nine times faster than the S&P 500. Why? Because unlike product companies, subscription companies know their customers. A happy subscriber base is the ultimate economic moat. Today's consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of ma...
Mar 22, 2019•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast