Ranking in Google's local results can be a difficult task. There are a lot of best practices to follow. If you're not doing the best in every area then your competition has a better chance of beating you in the rankings.That is why I developed The Ultimate Local SEO Audit. This book is your blueprint of every line item you need to review and fix on your website, your local listing, and even off page ranking factors.This book was written with a simple easy to use format whic...

The Marketing of Meaning is an answer to the constantly recurring question asked by most brands: What do consumers want these days? Erik gives a clear answer to this question by mapping out consumer behavior, pointing out the responsibility of brands in a changing world, and showing how to survive and even thrive in a world dominated by excess. Here he deepens the book’s triggering statement, “why purpose markets itself,” and offers you the recipe to thriving in challenging times.

Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book that reveals how to overcome this "depth deficit" and find the universal drivers of human behavior so vital to a firm's success.Marketing Metaphoria reveals the powerful unconscious viewing lenses--c...

THE DEFINITIVE M ARKETING GUIDE FOR THE 21st CENTURYEverything You Need to Plan Your Strategy and Achieve Your GoalsFrom Fortune 500 consultant Robert J. Hamper--the man who wrote the book on strategic marketing--comes a powerful new blueprint for growth in today's economy. Combining time-tested marketing tools with the latest global trends, this ready-to-use book guides you through every step of the strategy process.Packed with essential charts, forms, and fill-i...

Master the 4 Ps of marketingThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the marketing mix, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Launch a new product or test an existing marketing strategy• Understand the 4 Ps of the marketing mix and use them to attract your target market• Analyze case studies of well-known companies to see how the ...

Attract more customers and boost your sales!This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the freemium model, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the different types of free offers given to customers and how they can be beneficial to a business• Implement the freemium business model into your business to grow your customer base

The New Way to Get NoticedThe giant brands that once dominated the media landscape—Oprah, the New York Times, NPR, CNN—have seen their monopoly on public attention smashed by the Internet and now find themselves competing with individuals and brands in a sea of micromedia: websites, social media, blogs, podcasts, and more. Ace publicists and marketers Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton show that to navigate through this modern terrain, you need to thi...

Unlike other books which focus solely on the business or profit aspects of measuring the customer experience, this book focuses on the benefits to the consumer as well as the company or financial institution. The book describes how business and government can undertake market research to determine whether the credit and investment markets are functioning properly and providing consumers with adequate information to make sound and safe credit and investment decisions. A discussion of differ...

Rebrands, brand launches and brand relaunches. In Volume One of this series you’ll peak inside the strategic and creative process of some brand new brands and some old brands made new… plus find out how well they performed. Brands featured in this volume: Abbott’s Village Bakery, Virgin Australia, Twenty20 Big Bash League, Arvo, La Trobe University.

This peer-reviewed volume from the Society for the Study of Business and Finance, discusses current issues in globalization and financial system from an international political and economic perspective. Contemporary instruments and actors in the global financial system are specially analyzed and the discussion of managerial and financial issues of the global financial strategies offers novelty to readers and researchers in the field.

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact. Drawing on six principles from the industry, Godart guides the reader through the economic, social and political arena of the world's most glamorous industry.

In September 2010, the Cuban government decided to embark on an economic reform program, unprecedented after the Revolution in 1959. This opened up opportunities for Cuban economists and scholars to participate in the development of the reform program. Thanks to grants from SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council, New York) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several researchers from the Cuban think tank CEEC (Center for Studies of the Cuban Economy, Havana) got an opportunity to...