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Legions of salespeople and their leaders are coming face to face with a cold hard truth: what once gave salespeople a competitive edge—controlling the sales process, command of product knowledge, an arsenal of technology, and a great pitch—are no longer guarantees of success. Yet this is where the vast majority of the roughly $20 billion spent each year on sales training goes. It's no wonder many companies are seeing 50 percent or more of their salespeople miss quota.

Top performers have figured out a radical new approach that is redefining what it means to be a "rainmaker" in today's professional services market. Drawing on a comprehensive, quantitative study of nearly 3,000 partners, The Activator Advantage identifies the five types of partners found across the professional services landscape and shows how only one of them—the Activator—drives consistent growth.

All marketers aim to learn from the best. But how do you identify the tactics responsible for a company’s success? A stab in the dark? Here’s where behavioral science can help — because unlike much of marketing theory, it has a solid evidence base. Spot the behavioral biases, and you can understand why a tactic works. Brands can be mystifyingly successful. Why are customers happy to pay a premium for things that should be free, like water; things that should be cheap, like milk; and things that would do the same job at half the price, like vacuum cleaners?

In Book Yourself Solid for Creatives, bestselling author Michael Port and Joana Galvao deliver a game-changing and super-specific playbook for creative professionals seeking to fill their pipeline with dozens or hundreds of qualified leads and convert them into paying clients. The authors explain how to achieve your business goals, pack your calendar with high-value clients, and increase your top- and bottom-lines.

Endless Customers delivers a proven framework for businesses to become the most trusted and recognized brands in their markets by harnessing the power of developing the right content, website, sales activities, technology, and culture of performance. When executed correctly, this framework enables marketing, sales, and leadership teams to sync up on a business strategy that is transformative to the organization's growth, creating long-term success—and endless customers.

Marketing experts and professors Annie Wilson and Ryan Hamilton, through dozens of cases, provide insight into how brands can drive growth by attracting new segments without alienating or losing their current customers. They also explore how brands can more strategically select and manage customer segments to drive high velocity growth and symbiotic segment relationships.

In Little Bosses Everywhere, journalist Bridget Read tells the gripping story of multilevel marketing in full for the first time, winding from sunny postwar California, where a failed salesman started a vitamin business, through the devoutly religious suburbs of Michigan, where the industry built its political influence, to stadium-size conventions where today’s top sellers preach to die-hard recruits. MLM has enriched powerful people, like the DeVos and Van Andel families, Warren Buffett, and President Donald Trump, all while eroding public institutions and the social safety net.

Marketing in the AI Era is a timely primer on the basics of personalization, and how it can be applied across channels. It includes emerging best practices on how AI is transforming the limits of personalized experiences and offers practical guidance on how to establish a scalable personalization structure that fits your organization along with a clear, repeatable process that you can implement right away.

First published in 1928, Edward Bernays’ Propaganda may be the single most important work on public relations ever to appear. Bernays (1891-1995), a nephew of Sigmund Freud, shaped the management of public opinion at a time when the modern media were beginning to take their present shape. Propaganda today has a negative connotation, but Bernays uses the term in a neutral sense. Writing in the 1920s, he redefined what he called the “new propaganda” as public relations—a name that has stuck ever since.

「顧客数」だけ管理していたら、売上も利益もいつの間にか上がっていた！マーケティングのカリスマが贈る、豊富かつ驚きの実例をもとに説く、まったく新しい経営手法。「ノルマはなくす」「定休日を増やす」――

Pitching sucks. The word alone conjures up dull PowerPoint decks, pushy tactics, and shouty emails. But it doesn't have to be that way. Danny Fontaine, an expert in innovative pitching, presents a game-changing guide that transforms pitching into an exciting, creative and enjoyable experience. Drawing from his billion-dollar pitching experience, this book delves into the psychology of connection, storytelling mastery, and practical methods and frameworks for persuading any audience, backed with anecdotes of some of the very best, and worst, pitches of all time.

Now, more than ever, there are countless ways to achieve growth by marketing your business, large or small, using the many different channels, platforms and mechanisms available on the internet. How do you decide which is the best for your product or service? The answers are right here, thanks to Alex Schultz, the chief marketing officer of META. Alex's unparalleled expertise and experience is crystallised in this essential bible for digital marketing.

Kennedy and Fischer unveil that it takes no more effort to attract customers from the explosively growing Mass-Affluent, Affluent, and Ultra-Affluent populations, who are willing to pay premium prices for exceptional expertise, service, and experiences. In this updated fourth edition, Kennedy and Fischer provide a comprehensive guide on how to reposition your business, practice, or sales career to appeal to these affluent customers, for whom price is not a determining factor.

コロナ禍の沈静化で日本経済が正常化へと向かう中、さらなる飛躍のキーワードとなるのが「インバウンド」と「ナイトタイム」だ。ついに中国が団体旅行を解禁し、訪日観光客は実に２００万人増が見込まれる。

■「マーケティングの本を読んだけど挫折した」というあなたへ　申し訳ありません。本書を読んでも最新のマーケティング理論や流行りの集客ツールの使い方なんて１ミリも学べません。

日本の国民服となったユニクロ。長く無視していたファッション誌も今ではユニクロの虜だ。ここまで普及した理由は、服は特別なもの、おしゃれは難しいという思い込みを解き、服で個性を競うことに疲れた人々の心を掴んだから。