

The Marketing Book Podcast
Douglas Burdett
Weekly interviews with authors of new marketing and sales books. Named by LinkedIn and Forbes as one of the top marketing and sales podcasts. Hosted by Douglas Burdett, a marketing strategist, former artillery officer, Madison Avenue ad man, and stand-up comedian.
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Jan 4, 2019 • 48min
208 Non-Obvious 2019 by Rohit Bhargava
Non-Obvious 2019: How To Predict Trends And Win The Future by Rohit Bhargava Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/non-obvious-2019-rohit-bhargava What secrets can a 400-year-old Turkish cymbal maker and an Icelandic hot tub etiquette video teach you about the power of storytelling? How do Michelin-ranked food stalls in Singapore and the decline of Swiss watches force all luxury brands to rethink their business models? What insights can the world’s quietest place and a clothing dye produced by former tobacco farmers reveal about serving enlightened consumers? The answers to these questions may not be all that obvious. And that’s exactly the point. For the past eight years, innovation expert Rohit Bhargava and his team have predicted 15 “Non-Obvious” trends each year. In this book, get a sneak peek at the proven methods exclusively taught to thousands of executives at leading brands, organizations and governments to develop unexpected solutions to critical problems. The power of non-obvious thinking can help you see what others miss, grow your business and make a bigger impact in the world. In this all-new eighth edition, discover what more than a million readers already have: how to use the power of non-obvious thinking to grow your business and make a bigger impact in the world. In total, the Non-Obvious 2018 Edition features 15 all-new trends across 5 categories including Culture & Consumer Behavior, Marketing & Social Media, Media & Education, Technology & Design plus Economics & Entrepreneurship. The book also features a detailed section with a review and rating for more than 100 previously predicted trends – with longevity ratings for each. As with the original version, this new edition of Non-Obvious also delves into the curation process the author has used for years to build his Trend Reports and takes readers behind the scenes of trend curation (much to the delight of past readers who have been asking about this for years), and show them the methodology they can use to predict the future for themselves.

Dec 28, 2018 • 51min
207 The Persuasion Code by Christophe Morin
The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime by Christophe Morin Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/the-persuasion-code-christophe-morin Capture, convince, and close—scientifically Most of your attempts to persuade are doomed to fail because the brains of your audience automatically reject messages that disrupt their attention. This book makes the complex science of persuasion simple. Learn to develop better marketing and sales messages based on a scientific model; NeuroMap™. Regardless of your level of expertise in marketing, neuromarketing, neuroscience or psychology: The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime will make your personal and business lives more successful by unveiling a credible and practical approach towards creating a breakthrough persuasion strategy. This book will satisfy your interest in neuromarketing, scientific persuasion, sales, advertising effectiveness, website conversion, marketing strategy and sales presentations. It’ll teach you the value of the award-winning persuasion model NeuroMapTM : the only model based on the science of how your customers use their brain to make any decision including a buying decision. You will appreciate why this scientific approach has helped hundreds of companies and thousands of executives achieve remarkable results. Written by the founders of SalesBrain who pioneered the field of neuromarketing SalesBrain has trained more than 100,000 executives worldwide including over 15,000 CEO Includes guidance for creating your own neuromarketing plan Advance your business or career by creating persuasive messages based on the working principle of the brain.

Dec 21, 2018 • 53min
206 Video Marketing Strategy by Jon Mowat
Video Marketing Strategy: Harness the Power of Online Video to Drive Brand Growth by Jon Mowat Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/video-marketing-strategy-jon-mowat Video is the single most effective tool that marketers have to raise brand awareness, increase sales, drive website traffic and deliver ROI on marketing budgets. Driven by consumer demand and with the backing of the largest social media platforms, our world is becoming 'video first'. Video Marketing Strategy allows marketers to harness the power of video and create effective video campaigns. This in-depth look at the world's most powerful medium helps brands to radically magnify their voice by tapping into a level of emotional engagement that can't be achieved any other way. The book explores both theory (why are humans so affected by video on mobile devices?) and practice (what's the key to making videos that deliver results?). It looks at how multiple videos form wider campaigns and covers content hubs, activation strategies and testing. It is filled with invaluable advice, tips and strategies for incorporating video into a wider content marketing plan. Written by an award-winning video marketer with decades of experience, Video Marketing Strategy gives readers the magic formula to create engaging, effective content. Truly global in scope, it features case studies from around the world, and shows how marketers from all sectors and industries have used video campaigns successfully. Featuring insights from prominent industry practitioners Video Marketing Strategy is jam-packed with guidance on how to make videos that cut through the market place and deliver measurable result.

Dec 14, 2018 • 44min
205 Effective Sales Enablement by Pam Didner
Effective Sales Enablement: Achieve Sales Growth Through Collaborative Sales And Marketing by Pam Didner Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/effective-sales-enablement-pam-didner Sales enablement is a way of increasing sales results, revenue, profitability, and productivity by creating integrated content, training and coaching for the sales function. Powered by technology, it provides the tools, systems, processes, training, coaching, and development to enable sales to be more effective and efficient. Effective Sales Enablement provides an introduction to the development and evolution of sales enablement and shows how the field has been transformed by marketing technologies. Using case studies and examples from some of the world's largest companies including Google, Cisco, and Salesforce, Effective Sales Enablement will allow you to understand how these market-beating firms have harnessed and exploited technologies and bridged the gap between marketing and sales. The author provides a blueprint for any organization wanting to create a sales enablement function, which will, in turn, accelerate revenue growth.

Dec 7, 2018 • 46min
204 Sales Differentiation by Lee Salz
Sales Differentiation: 19 Powerful Strategies to Win More Deals at the Prices You Want by Lee Salz Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/sales-differentiation-lee-salz "If we don't drop our price, we will lose the deal." That's the desperate cry from salespeople as they try to win deals in competitive marketplaces. While the easy answer is to lower the price, the company sacrifices margin--oftentimes unnecessarily. To win deals at the prices you want,the strategy needed is differentiation. Most executives think marketing is the sole source of differentiation. But what about the sales function of the company? This commonly neglected differentiation opportunity provides a multitude of ways to stand out from the competition. This groundbreaking book teaches you how to develop those strategies. In Sales Differentiation, sales management strategist, Lee B. Salz presents nineteen easy-to-implement concepts to help salespeople win deals while protecting margins. These concepts apply to any salesperson in any industry and are based on the foundation that "how you sell, not just what you sell, differentiates you." The strategies are presented in easy-to-understand stories and can quickly be put into practice. Divided into two sections, the "what you sell" chapters help salespeople: Recognize that the expression "we are the best" causes differentiation to backfire. Avoid the introspective question that frustrates salespeople and ask the right question to fire them up. Understand what their true differentiators are and how to effectively position them with buyers. Find differentiators in every nook and cranny of the company using the six components of the "Sales Differentiation Universe." Create strategies to position differentiators so buyers see value in them. The "how you sell" section teaches salespeople how to provide meaningful value to buyers and differentiate themselves in every stage of the sales process. This section helps salespeople: Develop strategies to engage buyers and turn buyer objections into sales differentiation opportunities. Shape buyer decision criteria around differentiators. Turn a commoditized Request for Proposal (RFP) process into a differentiation opportunity. Use a buyer request for references as a way to stand out from the competition. Leverage the irrefutable, most powerful differentiator...themselves. Whether you've been selling for twenty years or are new to sales, the tools you learn in Sales Differentiation will help you knock-out the competition, build profitable new relationships, and win deals at the prices you want.

Nov 30, 2018 • 54min
203 10x Marketing Formula by Garrett Moon
10x Marketing Formula: Your Blueprint for Creating 'Competition-Free Content' That Stands Out and Gets Results by Garrett Moon Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/10x-marketing-formula-garrett-moon The dream of content marketing is that it’s going to be a magical funnel that drips money into your bank account. Its lure is that it will create an inbound sales machine. But what should you do when it doesn’t work like that? Or even at all? That’s the question this book is here to answer. It’s a formula that will show you exactly what to do (and how to do it) to achieve tenfold marketing results. This means the return you can expect will be ten times over what you put in. It’s the exact formula author Garrett Moon used to grow his startup CoSchedule from zeroes across the board to: 1.3M+ monthly pageviews, 250k+ email subscribers, and thousands of customers in 100 countries... ...in just 4 years. You will learn to overcome a lack of time, struggling to produce content, an inability to engage your audience, and so many more marketing roadblocks. If you think marketing success belongs only to elite geniuses or those with huge budgets, think again—10x marketers achieve 10x growth regardless of their limitations. This book is about finding the strategic shortcuts to get you to results fast. It’s about short-circuiting the path to jaw-dropping growth. You have to find your own way—and The 10x Marketing Formula is that path.

Nov 23, 2018 • 52min
202 Master Content Strategy by Pamela Wilson
Master Content Strategy: How To Maximize Your Reach and Boost Your Bottom Line Every Time You Hit Publish by Pamela Wilson Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/master-content-strategy-pamela-wilson A masterclass in content marketing strategy for content creators at every stage of the journey — written by a business owner, marketing consultant, and leading authority on the subject. Whether you're starting out or are managing a vast archive of content, this book delivers a content strategy that will maximize your results. Thoughtful content marketing delivers — traffic, attention, and customers. But too often, content creators just churn out piece after piece, with no thought to how everything fits together. The result is scattered, confusing, ineffective content marketing. It's a complete waste of time! Your content strategy can and should change depending on the stage of growth you're in. With Master Content Strategy, Pamela Wilson delivers an approach that honors your website's lifecycle and adapts to help you grow your skills as you grow your audience. This approach works for both B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) content creation — and for bloggers, podcasters, and vloggers alike. "In this book, Pamela Wilson gives you a guided walk-through of the nuances, complete with strategies to follow at every stage of your journey. When you’re finished reading, you’ll know exactly what stage you’re in and exactly what to do to get to the next stage." – Jon Morrow, Smart Blogger (from the Foreword) You're about to discover: How the Lifecycle Approach to content creation will transform your content strategy and empower you to create the right content at the right time Why you should aim to create Very Important Content — and the key ingredients of this kind of content marketing A Crash Course for getting your content created and out into the world How to map out Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly content plans that guide your content marketing efforts A robust Idea Bank for content repurposing that will expand your reach whether you're a blogger, podcaster, or vlogger During her award-winning 30+ year marketing career, Pamela Wilson has helped local, national, and international clients communicate their messages effectively. She's the founder of BIG Brand System and is a keynote speaker, author, and respected online educator. Her passion is teaching — and she has a gift for making complex topics simple and easy to understand.

Nov 16, 2018 • 40min
201 7 Concepts from 200 Marketing & Sales Books Every Marketer Needs to Know
7 Concepts from 200 Marketing & Sales Books Every Marketer Needs to Know by Douglas Burdett Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/7-concepts-200-marketing-sales-books In celebration of the first 200 episodes of The Marketing Book Podcast, I am presenting the audio from a presentation I made recently to the American Marketing Association Triangle Chapter in Raleigh North Carolina: "7 Concepts from 200 Marketing and Sales Books Every Marketer Needs to Know.”

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Nov 9, 2018 • 48min
200 This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Explore the essence of marketing with insights on embracing change, the power of status, leveraging tension, enrollment in marketing, and the balance of trust and attention in the modern marketing landscape.

Nov 2, 2018 • 50min
199 Eat Their Lunch by Anthony Iannarino
Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition by Anthony Iannarino Click here to view the show notes! https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/eat-their-lunch-anthony-iannarino The first ever playbook for B2B salespeople on how to win clients and customers who are already being serviced by your competition, from the author of The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need and The Lost Art of Closing. Like it or not, sales is often a zero-sum game: Your win is someone else's loss. Most salespeople work in mature, overcrowded industries, your offerings perceived (often unfairly) as commodities. Growth requires taking market share from your competitors, while they try to do the same to you. How else can you grow 12 percent a year in an industry that's only growing by 3 percent? It's not easy for any salesperson to execute a competitive displacement--or, in other words, "eat their lunch." You might think this requires a bloodthirsty "whatever it takes" attitude, but that's the opposite of what works. If you act like a Mafia don, you only make yourself difficult to trust and impossible to see as a long-term partner. Instead, this book shows you how to find and maintain a long-term competitive advantage by taking steps like: * ranking prospective new clients not by their size or convenience to you, but by who stands to gain the most from your solution. * understanding the different priorities for everyone in your prospect's organization, from the CEO to the accountants, and addressing their various concerns. * developing a systematic contact plan for all those different stakeholders so you can win over the right people at the organization in the optimal sequence. Your competitors may be tough, but with the strategies you'll discover in this book, you'll soon be eating their lunch.