If your agency's future is tied to making stuff, then you're destined to be on a perpetual financial roller coaster. Someone will always make stuff less expensively than you can. We're entering the era of the authority. While you may already be sick of the phrase thought leader, the truth is there aren't that many of them in our industry. Thought leaders don't write content that any other agency could claim. Thought leaders don't write about anything and everything and thought leaders don'...

Following the success of the first two editions, Age of Conversation 3: It's Time to Get Busy! again kick-starts the discussion about how the global marketing landscape is changing. With over 170 of the world's leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators contributing chapters, this collaborative work investigates the roles that community, conversation, experimentation, engagement, and collaboration play in shaping the 21st century's economy of ideas. As businesses, public ...

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, colleague, or even stranger with similar tastes over anything thrust at them by a faceless company.Most busine...

The Practical Pocket Guide to Account Planning provides a straightforward, no nonsense approach to understanding what Account Planners do on a daily basis and how they do it. Filled with real world examples, amusing anecdotes, and useful techniques for getting to better insights, The Practical Pocket Guide provides a clear path for how Account Planners can collaborate with Creatives to produce great work that is insightful, engaging, and culturally infectious. In this engaging 2-hour read,...

Master the art of effective delegation.You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:Establishing a productive environmentAssigning the right work to the right peopleConducting an effective hand-off meetingMonitoring without micromanagi...

'42 Rules of Product Management (2nd Edition)' is a collection of product management wisdom from forty experts from around the world. The goal of this book is to expose you to the wisdom and knowledge from a group of the world's leading product management experts. Among the contributors, there are leading authors, professors, CEOs and vice presidents, bloggers, consultants, trainers, and even a few salespeople and engineers. In total, there are over five centuries of collected wis...

In many ways, success at networking is the uncommon application of common knowledge. Most people understand that networking is important to their success—they just lack a step-by-step process to get the results they want. Almost no one really implements a comprehensive methodology that will build a business through networking. Thus, the need to network is "common knowledge," and the development of the methodology required to be successful at it is the "uncommon application."By reading this...

If you are a professional salesperson, sales manager or director, VP of sales, CEO, any role in marketing, or anyone supporting selling efforts, this book is for you. It will teach you updated tools, language and tactics of selling in todays market. Michael Griego, a professional sales consultant and trainer to Fortune 500 firms and leading Silicon Valley technology firms, has reduced the keys to sales effectiveness to 42 rules. These rules have been road tested over 28 years of personal sale...

The project management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Project Management.Includes how to:• Deliver a successful project from start to finish• Communicate effectively with people at all levels• Manage changes and control scope creep• Identify and deal with risks• Work with common project management methodologies

The classic guide to acing any interview—updated with critical skills for networking, video interviewing, and researching companiesGreat Answers, Great Questions For Your Job Interview prepares you to answer the trickiest questions and make yourself stand out from the competition. From pre-interview research to follow-up calls, the authors walk you through every step of the process and provide powerful advice on customizing your resume for any pos...

A study of more than 100 businesses with online communities found that 35% had less than 100 members and less than 25% had more than 1,000 members. The consultant's recommendation who conducted the study was "Put someone who has experience running an online community in charge of the project." Here's your chance to learn from someone with experience. In "18 Ways to Engage Users Online," Angela Connor shares how she helped her online community surpass 10,000 members in 16 short months.This ...

The marketing playbook for the Subscription Economy, now in its 3rd editionSubscriptions are upending industries and reshaping customer expectations. Have you changed your marketing practices to thrive in this new reality?A successful subscription business is built on lasting relationships, not one-time sales.Stop chasing sales and start creating value.The third edition of this ground-breaking book offers updated ad...