From Backroom To Boardroom: Earn Your Seat With Strategic Marketing Operations by Debbie Qaqish About the Book: From Backroom to Boardroom is not a book about technology, data models, or the latest in a series of bright and shiny toys so loved by marketers. It is a book about building a strategic marketing operations organization that transports marketing from the backroom to the boardroom. The journey begins with defining the new breed of marketing leadership and continues by exploring the inte...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amplify Your Influence: Transform How You Communicate and Lead by René Rodriguez Apply the latest advances in neuroscience to your real-world persuasion and influence strategies for immediate results with this Wall Street Journal, USA Today , and Publishers Weekly bestseller About the Book: In Amplify Your Influence: Transform How You Communicate and Lead , keynote speaker, trainer, and leadership coach René Rodriguez delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve reade...
Dec 23, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing 6th Ed. by Andy Crestodina About the Book: The result of thousands of conversations about web marketing with hundreds of companies, this handbook is a compilation of the most important and effective lessons and advice about the power of search engine optimization, social media, and email marketing. The first and only comprehensive guide to content marketing, this book explains the social, analytical, and creative aspects of modern...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek About the Book: One of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scientists, enthusiastic reporters, deep-pocketed defense contractors, and Tang. In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy by Phil Barden About the Book: A groundbreaking exploration of purchasing behavior and its essential role in smarter marketing practices to benefit your organization If you understand why people buy, you are already one step ahead in reaching out to them effectively with your products and services. Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy offers a groundbreaking exploration into the science of purchasing. The book specifically demonstrates why decision scienc...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley About the Book: A hands-on field guide to consistently creating page-turning content that your audience loves. (And that delivers real results.) In the newly revised and updated edition of Everybody Writes , marketer and author Ann Handley improves on her Wall Street Journal bestselling book that’s helped hundreds of thousands become better, more confident writers. In this brand-new edition, ...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Customer-Base Audit: The First Step on the Journey to Customer Centricity by Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie and Michael Ross About the Book: As a leader in your organization, you will be very familiar with your organization’s key financial statements and monthly management reports. You may have spent countless hours discussing budgets and expenditures. But how much time have you spent reflecting on the fact that these revenues are generated by actual customers―the people who pull out their wallet...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman by Carmine Gallo About the Book : The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted. Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world’s most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, an...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Prove It: Exactly How Modern Marketers Earn Trust by Melanie Deziel with Phil M. Jones About the Book : Your brand is on trial―here’s how to win your case. You know your company is amazing. You say your company is amazing. But why should your customers believe you? In a crowded consumer courtroom full of shady advertisers all claiming to be the best, the fastest, the most caring, your brand is literally on trial―and that means you better deliver the proof. In Prove It , StoryFuel founder Melanie...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast The JOLT Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision by Matthew Dixon and Ted McKenna About the Book: From the bestselling co-author of The Challenger Sale , a paradigm-shattering approach to overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales In sales, the worst thing you can hear from a customer isn’t “no.” It’s “I need to think about it.” When this happens, deeply entrenched business advice says to double down on your efforts to sell a buyer on all the ways they might win by ch...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Secret Lives of Customers: A Detective Story About Solving the Mystery of Customer Behavior by David Scott Duncan About the Book: A "detective story" that delivers key insights for any businessperson asking the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how do we regain them? Customers can be a mystery. Despite the availability of more data than ever before, everyone, from the CEO to salespeople in the field, struggles to understand who their customers really are, what the...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast ADSCAM: How Online Advertising Gave Birth to One of History's Greatest Frauds and Became a Threat to Democracy by Bob Hoffman About the Book: In 2017, Bob Hoffman wrote BadMen: How Advertising Went from a Minor Annoyance to a Major Menace . It was selected as Best Of Marketing, 2017 by The Drum . Five years later Bob revisits advertising’s tracking-based online advertising industry and finds it far more corrupt and dangerous than ever. In ADSCAM: How Online Advertising Gave Birth to One of Histo...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Friction: Adding Value By Making People Work for It by Soon Yu and Dave Birss About the Book: Friction isn't something to be avoided. Successful businesses not only understand the difference between good and bad friction but also know how to EMBRACE A DOSE of good friction to create greater value. You'll learn how to leverage good friction to generate adrenaline, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins to drive increased engagement, meaning, belonging, rapport, assurance, competence, and e...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Sales MBA: How to Influence Corporate Buyers by Douglas Cole About the Book: Contrary to many predictions, there is a growing demand for highly skilled sales jobs in the modern economy. Whether you're a salesperson or a knowledge worker, knowing how to influence corporate buyers has become a critical skill. But most sales books tend to be narrow and prescriptive. They focus only on tactics and tools rather than principles and mindset that can redefine your approach. This is a different kind ...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Using Behavioral Science in Marketing: Drive Customer Action and Loyalty by Prompting Instinctive Responses by Nancy Harhut About the Book: Increase engagement, response rates, and the ROI of marketing initiatives with this step-by-step guide to harnessing hardwired consumer behavior and instinctive responses. Using Behavioral Science in Marketing shows how to apply behavioral science principles in key areas of marketing, including marketing communications, email, direct mail and ad campaigns, s...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Brand Positioning Workbook: A Simple How-To Guide To More Compelling Brand Positionings, Faster by Ulli Applebaum About the Book: The Brand Positioning Workbook outlines an easy-to-follow roadmap on how to successfully position or re-position a brand for success in the marketplace. The methodology described in this book is inspired by the analysis of over 1,200 case studies of effective brand building which led to the identification of the 26 universal and proven successful triggers of succe...
Sep 16, 2022•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield About the Book: Are you losing your "war of art"? Are you being defeated by a tendency to procrastination, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism? Are you self-sabotaging your loftiest artistic entrepreneurial dreams? The antidote is nine words: Put your ass where your heart wants to be. Can you shift your artistic identity—your "ass"—from the shallow, fearful, superficial ego to the wise, loving, fearless self? Can you com...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brand Vision: The Clear Line of Sight Aligning Business Strategy and Marketing Tactics by Jim Everhart About the Book: This book is based on a critical premise: that, rather than merely a series of aesthetic decisions on typography and graphics, marketing can be a powerful force that helps a company communicate its strategy. In a global survey of more than four thousand senior executives, consulting firm PwC found that 80 percent of the respondents admitted that few of their associates understoo...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are by Aaron Ahuvia About the Book: A revealing investigation of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things—drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing. Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you're like most people, at some point in your life you've found yourself indulging...
Aug 26, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation To Solve Tomorrow’s Challenges by Sam Tatam About the Book: When faced with new challenges, it’s easy to feel our solutions need to be equally unprecedented. We think we need a revolution. But what if this is a big mistake? In Evolutionary Ideas , Sam Tatam shows how behavioral 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...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations and Life by Aidan McCullen About the Book: Understand the barriers to change and cultivate a reinvention mindset that will make you impervious to disruption In our world of incessant change, we are all threatened by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—at the individual and organizational levels. Undisruptable will give you a new lens through which to consider change as an opportunity rather than an ob...
Aug 12, 2022•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Indispensable Brand: Move from Invisible to Invaluable by Mitch Duckler About the Book: What makes your brand indispensable? Increasing market share, commanding premium price points, enhancing profit margins--the overall growth and enduring success of your business are inextricably linked to the strength of your brands. Whether it is a corporate, business unit, or product brand in question, your challenge is to identify a meaningfully differentiated positioning and to bring that positioning to l...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Selling the Price Increase: The Ultimate B2B Field Guide for Raising Prices Without Losing Customers by Jeb Blount About the Book: A practical guide for successfully navigating the single greatest growth and profit improvement opportunity for B2B enterprises: price increases The payoff for implementing price increases without losing customers is massive! Effective price increase campaigns are far more effective at boosting topline revenue and generating profits than acquiring new customers. The ...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Selling Your Expertise: The Mindset, Strategies, and Tactics of Successful Rainmakers by Robert Chen About the Book: How do rainmakers consistently and continuously sell their ideas and grow their client base? What is the secret to their ongoing success? Whether they are in accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, or any other type of professional service, it’s not just their knowledge, experience, and unique services that set them apart. They succeed by adopting the mindset, mastering t...
Jul 22, 2022•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business by Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput About the Book: Artificial intelligence is forecasted to have trillions of dollars of impact on businesses and the economy, yet many marketers struggle to understand what it is and how to apply it in their marketing efforts. The truth is, AI possesses the power to change everything. While AI-powered marketing technologies may never achieve the sci-fi vision of self-running, self-improving ...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Selling Through Tough Times: Grow Your Profits and Mental Resilience Through any Downturn by Paul Reilly About the Book: As a sales professional, you know that it’s harder to sell in tough times―whether it’s a recession, industry-wide challenge, or global pandemic. You may also have noticed that some salespeople and managers not only survive but thrive through tough times. How do they do it? What do they do to thrive through adversity? Paul Reilly explains it all in Selling Through Tough Times :...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast From Impressed to Obsessed: 12 Principles for Turning Customers and Employees into Lifelong Fans by Jon Picoult About the Book: If you’re aspiring to satisfy your customers, then you’re aspiring to mediocrity. That’s the fascinating premise of From Impressed to Obsessed , a book that will fundamentally change how you think about creating a successful, beloved business. Acclaimed customer experience expert Jon Picoult explains why building customer loyalty requires leaving indelible positive impr...
Jul 01, 2022•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Black Goldfish: 10 Keys to Creating a Differentiated Experience by Stan Phelps About the Book: Your brand today is no longer what you tell people it is. It is the differentiated experience (DX) your employees deliver. It is what you stand for and how your customers feel about you. And most importantly, your brand is what your customers and employees tell others about their experience. Black Goldfish is an amalgam of the first 10 colors in the Goldfish Series. The color black happens when you put...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late with Seth Godin and David Meerman Scott About the Book: When it comes to the climate, we don’t need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism or to take action. Yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We ur...
Jun 21, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative by Anthony Iannarino About the Book: Accelerate your sales career with this how-to book from an expert in sales In Elite Sales Strategies , expert sales leader Anthony Iannarino offers his philosophy about becoming a commercial success. This guidebook provides unique insights into how to approach every sale by serving your clients from a position of authority and expertise. As Iannarino himself notes...
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