B2B companies arent often natural-born marketers. Marketing isnt a core competence or even a comfort zone for many of them. But with more global competition and new ways of doing business, B2B companies now have the opportunity and the necessity to get smart about marketing. They have the opportunity to capitalize on marketing to enhance awareness of their products and services, gain new customers and increase their profits. This book is a practical, one-stop resource for achieving B2B mar...

This simple user-friendly guide explains how you can access the full power of LinkedInincluding advice on making lasting business connections building a unique personal brand and generating significant business opportunities. Are you at a social-media disadvantage if you entered the business world before the rise of Facebook? Wayne Breitbarth argues that the opposite is true when it comes to LinkedIn: your experience and connections as a seasoned professional give you a leg up in harnessin...

Advance your B2B marketing plans with proven social media strategiesLearn social media's specific application to B2B companies and how it can be leveraged to drive leads and revenue. B2B marketers are undervalued and under appreciated in many companies. Social media and online marketing provide the right mix of rich data and reduction in marketing expenses to help transform a marketer into a superstar. The B2B Social Media Book provides B2B marketers with ...

Your business success is now forever linked to the success of your customers Customer Success is the groundbreaking guide to the exciting new model of customer management. Business relationships are fundamentally changing. In the world B.C. (Before Cloud), companies could focus totally on sales and marketing because customers were often 'stuck' after purchasing. Therefore, all of the 'post-sale' experience was a cost center in most companies. In the world A.B. (After Benioff), with granula...

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were building their entire strategies around their analytical capabilities. Rather tha...

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond.It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was MySpace’s sorry step-brother, and Uber was a ...

How to align social media with business strategy for real resultsFor years now, businesses have approached social media in an experimental fashion unconnected to real results. There's a reason why the question about ROI is met with such hostility. But it's time for businesses to get serious about social. In this concise e-book, noted authors and disruptive technology analysts Charlene Li and Brian Solis present seven powerful factors for designing and supporting an...

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...

Product management is one of the most dynamic and exciting careers around. Yet many product managers find themselves frustrated because of the unique challenges it presents. There are many books on the mechanics and core principles of product management, such as how to gather and write requirements, build roadmaps and perform other tasks. But there is no book that tells you the rest of the story -- the strategies, tactics and techniques that will turn you into a great product manager.'The ...

Master the basics of project management.You've been asked to manage a key project—or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics, including:Drawing up a realistic schedule and project planMonitoring key tasks and benchmarksCommunicating with stakeholdersBringing th...

How to Do Just About Anything to Make Money Online! By now, you may have come to the conclusion that most of Internet Marketing is an over-hyped scam. For the most part, you're right. And in any industry, only 20% will be generating 80% of the profits. But it's really closer to 1 in 10,000 who not only get a complete return of their original investment, but actually become rich like all those info-mercials you may have seen on late-night TV. It's not that dreary, actually. The ones who suc...

Insurance/Financial IT executive says: you clearly paint what success looks like and call out solid characteristics of structure/rigor within the discipline. VP of Technology at digital publisher says: I have found this book to be a valuable resource as Dr. Houseworth has made the complex subject of project management very approachable. His many examples, slogans and other techniques help the reader quickly grasp and remember key project management concepts. Throughout the book Dr. Housewo...