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Marketing for Dummies

by Alexander Hiam

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Marketing is the most important thing that you do in business today, even if your job title doesn't have the word marketing in it. That is because marketing, in all its varied forms, is concerned with things like attracting customers, and
  • Getting them to buy your product
  • Making sure that they are happy with their purchases
  • Persuading them to come back for more

What could be more important? Ever try to run a business without customers?

Marketing encompasses several specialized fields – from advertising to public relations, from selling to strategy, from database management to packaging and product design. How can you possibly be an expert at even half of these tasks? But at some point, anyone who wears a marketing hat has to handle problems in these areas and more. Marketing For Dummies shows you how.

While this guide delves deep into the classic four components of marketing – product, price, placement, and promotions – it reaches beyond the basics of how to design a simple marketing program and gives you insight into

  • Creating a compelling Internet strategy
  • Succeeding at trade shows
  • Producing interesting labeling, billboards, and print ads
  • Understanding point-of-purchase advertising

    Sure, marketing can be a great deal of fun – it is, after all, a rare aspect of business where creativity is not only tolerated but essential to success. Yet in the long run, marketing is all about the bottom line. And Marketing For Dummies has a great many solutions of use to anyone who faces the challenge of finding and satisfying customers.


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    Average Customer Review:4 out of 5 stars
    0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

    1 out of 5 starsNot for me, 2008-09-01
    Bought this as I thought being a general guide I may find areas attributable to my needs, my business has'nt really got a book out there that I could use specifically. I've also read 'Duct Tape Marketing' which is far superior and practical. The 'Dummies' book is too general, so much so that it isn't at all usuable in real business - the Dummies book would be okay for a marketing student to give them a theoretical understanding of marketing, but don't bother with it if you need a practical application of marketing.


    0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

    4 out of 5 starsA Very Good Start, 2008-05-26
    In "Marketing For Dummies", Alexander Hiam covers the basics of marketing, starting with an overview of what exactly marketing is, followed by how to design a marketing program and onwards:

    *Easy to read (though not a quick read by any means. But that's okay, because it's meant to be used as a reference book, not a novel.)

    *Like most of the other "for Dummies" books, there are tags on the page designed to draw the reader's attention to key/important concepts.

    *Covers a wide range of marketing activities from branding, to direct response marketing to marketing a business online.

    I'd highly recommend this book to anyone looking to get a basic (but thorough) understanding of what marketing is and how to implement it into their business, then to look to other books for more advanced insights on specific areas of their marketing strategy.


    0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

    3 out of 5 starsBest for people marketing their own products, 2007-11-22
    I would say this book is geared more torwards marketing your own products, not actually working for a marketing firm, which is why I got the book. I needed a crash course for my new position. Only one chapter really helped me out. :(



    0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

    4 out of 5 starsMarketing 101 the easy way, 2007-09-26
    This is the easiest way to wrap yourself around classic marketing methodologies. It clarifies the jargon and delivers the philosophies in an easy to grasp manner. When I'm working with a newbie to the world of marketing, I always suggest it. But if you're actually looking for something to tell you what to do step-by-step you'll still need a book like the one I wrote, "Lies Startups Tell to Avoid Marketing", for hands-on, "just do it", how-to marketing info.


    0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

    5 out of 5 starsUseful General Guide to Marketing, 2007-07-15
    Alexander Hiam encourages organization leaders to look at future possibilities of achievement rather than concentrating on the current status of organizations. The way to achieve these goals is to discover what the customers of the organization desire and then discover the means to communicate that the organization offers what the customers desire. Communication can appeal both to the rational decision making and the more irrational emotional decision making. He advises that one generally should choose to appeal to either the logic or to the emotions of consumers and that appealing to both weakens the appeal. When planning these communications, leaders should have contingency plans and be flexible to change these plans should problems arise concerning the communications.




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