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MARKETING:

Ama Handbook for Managing Business to Business Marketing Communications
By J. Nicholas De Bonis and Roger S. Peterson
Hardcover, 1997
ISBN: 0844235954

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
By Geoffrey A. Moore Paperback, 1999
ISBN: 0066620023

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
By Don Tapscott, David Ticoll and Alex Lowy Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 1578511933
Describes business strategy in the new digital economy of the Business Web. Case studies.

This book is basic reference for employers and employees with the responsibility for creating and/or managing marketing communications.

Market-Based Management: Strategies for Growing Customer Value and Profitability
By Roger J. Best, Paperback, 1999
ISBN: 0130145467

Marketing Revolution: A Radical Manifesto for Dominating the Marketplace
By Kevin J. Clancy Paperback, 1993
ISBN: 0887305725

The Secrets of Word-Of-Mouth Marketing: How to Trigger Exponential Sales Through Runaway Word of Mouth
By George Silverman Paperback, 2001
ISBN: 0814470726
The book helps marketers identify who their potential buyers are and what messages those prospects need to hear from friends, coworkers, and trusted advisors. Step-by-step guidance on how to construct an integrated "no vested interest" campaign that leverages all channels (including traditional media, the Internet, and PR), penetrates successive tiers of audiences, and builds sales exponentially. Marketers will learn how to target the predominate adopter type (innovator, etc.), create the actual words needed to accelerate the process and identify the best sources and delivery mechanisms that trigger "runaway" word of mouth.

The $100 Billion Allowance: How to Get Your Share of the Global Teen Market
By Elissa Moses, Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0471298484

One out of four people in the world is between the ages of 10 and 24. One out of every six persons worldwide is between 15 and 19. This book is for Youth marketers who want to understand the global youth culture and have a framework for developing marketing programs. The author systematically provides information on these factors: Market sizing, Cultural unifiers and differentiators, Values segmentation, and Regional/ Key country perspectives.

The eMarketplace Strategies for Succeeding in B2B eCommerce
By Warren Raisch, Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0071361235

This practical resource book with tips includes such topics as Dynamic Content Strategies, B2B community Strategies, E-Marketplace Commerce Strategies and Business Models, Value Trust Networks and the Customer-Centric Power Shift.

The Dialamerica Teleservices Handbook: A Guide to Successful Inbound and Outbound Telemarketing

By Robert Doscher and Richard Simms, Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0658003992

Guidebook for providing Teleservices. Describes in detail how to run a successful telemarketing campaign.

The E-Mail Marketing Handbook, by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

The Secrets of Word-Of-Mouth Marketing: How to Trigger Exponential Sales Through Runaway Word of Mouth
By George Silverman, Paperback, 2001
ISBN: 0814470726

The book helps marketers identify who their potential buyers are and what messages those prospects need to hear from friends, coworkers, and trusted advisors. Step-by-step guidance on how to construct an integrated "no vested interest" campaign that leverages all channels (including traditional media, the Internet, and PR), penetrates successive tiers of audiences, and builds sales exponentially. Marketers will learn how to target the predominate adopter type (innovator, etc.), create the actual words needed to accelerate the process and identify the best sources and delivery mechanisms that trigger "runaway" word of mouth.

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BRANDS & ADVERTISING:

How advertising effectiveness influences brand equity
By Giep Franzen, et al. Paperback, 1999
ISBN: 1841160423

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BRANDING:

Brand Asset Management
By David A. Aaker and Scott M. Davis
Hardcover, 2000, ISBN: 0787950777

Practical handbook to maximize the strength and value of your brand.

Branding.com: On-Line Branding for Marketing Success
By Deborah Kania Hardcover, 2001
ISBN: 0658003070

This text explores the principles of on-line marketing and gives the reader a detailed look at branding in e-business.

Designing Identity: Graphic Design as a Business Strategy
By Marc English Paperback, 2000
ISBN: 1564966801

Emotional Branding: The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People
By Marc Gobe and Sergio Zyman Hardcover, 2001
ISBN: 1581150784

Reviews indicate that this book provides a fresh and practical perspective that covers the full field of branding expressions from logo and sensory packaging design to delivering branded experiences.

Managing Brand Equity: Capitalizing on the Value of a Brand Name
By David A. Aaker Hardcover, 1991
ISBN: 0029001013

Marketing Aesthetics: The Strategic Management of Brands, Identity and Image
By Bernd H. Schmitt and Alex Simonson Hardcover, 1997
ISBN: 0684826550

The Brand Mindset: Five Essential Strategies for Building Brand Advantage Throughout Your Company
By Duane E. Knapp and Christopher W. Hart Hardcover, 1999
ISBN: 007134795X

The Power of Logos: How to Create Effective Company Logos
By William L. Haig and Laurel Harper (Contributor) Hardcover, 1997
ISBN: 0471287784

 

 

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ADVERTISING:

Ogilvy on Advertising
By David Ogilvy Paperback, 1987
ISBN: 039472903X

Describes how to create advertising, run an advertising agency, write successful copy, and what the future holds for the advertising industry.

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BRAND COMMUNICATION/ROI (i.e., return on investment):

Measuring Brand Communication ROI
By Don E. Schultz and Jeffrey S. Walters, Paperback, 1997,
ISBN: 1563180537

This book explains in simple steps how to value customers and how to develop rules on how much to invest on them. Also, this book provides easy-to-follow spreadsheet that enables marketers to enter appropriate data and calculate their own brand communication return-on-investment (ROI). This formula is on the computer disk with both MAC and PC format that comes with the book.

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CUSTOMER LOYALTY AND SATISFACTION:

Customers for Life: How to Turn That One-Time Buyer into a Lifetime Customer
By Carl Sewell, Paul B. Brown and Tom Peters
Paperback, 1998
ISBN: 067102101X

e-Loyalty: How to Keep Customers Coming Back to Your Website
By Ellen Reid Smith, Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0066620708

Step-by-step manual for creating a web site that will cause people to show up and then to keep coming back by focusing on Most Valuable Customers (MVCs)

Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty and Profit: An Integrated Measurement and Management System
By Michael D. Johnson and Anders Gustafsson, Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0787953105

A practical book that gives one a five-stage plan for reuniting the your key measures of customer satisfaction with your marketing and product development for excellence in customer service.

Improving Your Measurement of Customer Satisfaction: A Guide to Creating, Conducting, Analyzing, and Reporting Customer Satisfaction Measurement
By Terry G., Ph.D. Vavra
Hardcover, 1997
ISBN: 0873894057

The Experience! How to Wow Your Customers and Create a Passionate Workplace
By Lior Arussy Hardcover, 2002
ISBN: 1578203066

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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT:

Aftermarketing: How to Keep Customers for Life through Relationship Marketing
By Terry G. Vavra Hardcover, 1992
ISBN: 1556236050

All-To-One: Creating Effective Customer Relationship Marketing in the Post-Internet Age
By Steve Luengo-Jones, Hardcover, 2001
ISBN: 0077097998

Hands-on guide to the potential of the new Internet-plus economy.

Enterprise One to One: Tools for Competing in the Interactive Age
By Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Paperback, 1999
ISBN: 038548755X

Peppers and Rogers take the concept of customer relationship management and apply it to their 1 to 1 approach to the marketplace. They suggest that you know each customer as an individual market and they tell us how. This book is accompanied with the following that shows how to implement their approach.

The One to One Fieldbook: The Complete Toolkit for Implementing a 1 To 1 Marketing Program
By Don Peppers, Martha Rogers (Ph.D.) and Bob Dorf, Paperback, 1999
ISBN: 038549369X

 

 

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DATA, CUSTOMER & MARKETING:

Data Mining Cookbook: Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management
By Olivia Parr Rud, Paperback, 2000)
ISBN: 0471385646


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DIRECT MARKETING

Successful Direct Marketing Methods, Seventh Edition
By Bob Stone, Ron Jacobs and H. Robert Wientzen Hardcover, 2001
ISBN: 0658001450

Updated classic text on direct marketing.

Direct Marketing: Strategy, Planning, Execution
By Edward L. Nash Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0071352872

Includes information on database marketing, infomercials and computer and video-based interactive marketing.

Business to Business Direct Marketing: Proven Direct Response Methods to Generate More Leads and Sales
By Robert W. Bly Hardcover, 1998
ISBN: 0844232432

Useful checklists, hints and examples of successful direct marketing. Covers potential customers locator mediums (ads, catalogs, flyer, mail, sales brochures, etc).

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MARKETING AND THE INTERNET

Capturing Customers.com
By George W. Colombo Hardcover, 2001
ISBN: 1564145077

Capturing Customers.com provides detailed explanations and illustrations of strategies and tactics for successful selling and marketing of products and services in the online world. Demonstrates that the key to successful selling and marketing on the Internet is the degree to which online strategy can be coordinated with other business tools.

The New Marketing Paradigm: Integrated Marketing Communications
By Don E. Schultz, Stanley L. Tannenbaum and Robert F. Lauterborn Paperback, 1996
ISBN: 0844234524

 

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NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING:

Product Leadership: Creating and Launching Superior New Products
By Robert Gravlin Cooper, Paperback, 2000
ISBN: 0738201561

The Pdma Handbook of New Product Development
By Milton D. Rosenau (Editor), Product Development, Management Association, Hardcover, 1996
ISBN: 0471141895

Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition
By Preston G. Smith and Donald G. Reinertsen, Hardcover, 1997
ISBN: 0471292524

Hundreds of practical tools for reducing new product development cycle time.

Product Development for the Service Sector: Lessons from Market Leaders
By Robert G. Cooper and Scott J. Edgett, Hardcover, 1999
ISBN: 0738201057

Comprehensive overview of the principles of product development and how they can be applied profitably in the service sector.

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PRICING:

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making
By Thomas T. Nagle and Reed K. Holden, Hardcover, 1994
ISBN: 0136693768

Practical and lively in style, this book explains essential ideas and concepts to integrate pricing successfully into the overall marketing strategy. Areas covered include strategic pricing, competition in the market place, segmentation of buyers, pricing and the marketing mix for industrial and consumer goods, psychology of pricing, models for determining price sensitivity, implications of sales staff price setting, negotiation and legal aspects of pricing.

Power Pricing: How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line
By Robert J. Dolan and Hermann Simon (Contributor), Hardcover, 1997
ISBN: 068483443X

 

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TELEMARKETING

Call Center Management on Fast Forward : Succeeding in Today's Dynamic Inbound Environment
By Brad Cleveland and Julia Paperback, 1999
ISBN: 0965909301

The Complete Guide to Telemarketing Management
By Joel Linchitz Paperback, 2000
ISBN: 0965892506

The Dialamerica Teleservices Handbook: A Guide to Successful Inbound and Outbound Telemarketing
By Robert Doscher and Richard Simms Hardcover, 2000
ISBN: 0658003992

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