Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred by Steve Woodruff
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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/clarity-wins-steve-woodruff
In a world filled with noise and distraction, the secret weapon any business can use to break through is CLARITY. Clarity of strategy (leading to focused direction), and clarity of messaging (leading to sales and referrals). Clarity Wins is a proven handbook to create competitive advantage in any marketplace. The reader will discover the three word packages that deliver results (snippets, stories, and symbols); and the five crucial elements of clear direction and expression (what, for whom, why, how, and where). A brief overview of practical brain science will reveal why every business needs to pigeonhole itself, and what that means in four marketplace dimensions. We don't have to spend a million dollars to rise above the noise and grow referrals. We just need to learn how to be clear.
Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It by Tien Tzuo
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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/subscribed-tien-tzuo
Subscription companies are growing nine times faster than the S&P 500. Why? Because unlike product companies, subscription companies know their customers. A happy subscriber base is the ultimate economic moat.
Today's consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of maintenance, from transportation (Uber, Surf Air), to clothing (Stitch Fix, Eleven James), to razor blades and makeup (Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox). Companies are similarly demanding easier, long-term solutions, trading their server rooms for cloud storage solutions like Box. Simply put, the world is shifting from products to services.
But how do you turn customers into subscribers? As the CEO of the world's largest subscription management platform, Tien Tzuo has helped hundreds of companies transition from relying on individual sales to building customer-centric, recurring-revenue businesses. His core message in Subscribed is simple: Ready or not, excited or terrified, you need to adapt to the Subscription Economy -- or risk being left behind.
Tzuo shows how to use subscriptions to build lucrative, ongoing one-on-one relationships with your customers. This may require reinventing substantial parts of your company, from your accounting practices to your entire IT architecture, but the payoff can be enormous. Just look at the case studies:
* Adobe transitions from selling enterprise software licenses to offering cloud-based solutions for a flat monthly fee, and quadruples its valuation.
* Fender evolves from selling guitars one at a time to creating lifelong musicians by teaching beginners to play, and keeping them inspired for life.
* Caterpillar uses subscriptions to help solve problems -- it's not about how many tractors you can rent, but how much dirt you need to move.
In Subscribed, you'll learn how these companies made the shift, and how you can transform your own product into a valuable service with a practical, step-by-step framework. Find out how how you can prepare and prosper now, rather than trying to catch up later.
Smarketing: How to Achieve Competitive Advantage through Blended Sales and Marketing by Tim Hughes
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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/smarketing-tim-hughes
Since the earliest days of 'modern' marketing and sales, the departments that ran these key functions have been separate empires. They have different leaders, different budgets, and different organizational structures. However, with the overwhelming impact of continuous disruption, many organizations have been left floundering, unsure of how to get traction in the market. The old rule book has been torn up and thrown away.
Smarketing is the first book that explores the shift that will become the future state operating model for companies seeking to remain competitive and relevant in this fast-changing digital world. It explains how and why companies should blend sales and marketing into one single, streamlined smarketing department. Sales people will become better marketers, and marketers better sales people, leading to bigger, better business growth all round.
With clearly defined implementation strategies that can be applied by any company, regardless of size or sector, Smarketing is an invaluable resource for any marketing or sales professional looking to drive growth and success in the new era of marketing.
Making Websites Win: Apply the Customer-Centric Methodology That Has Doubled the Sales of Many Leading Websites by Dr. Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson
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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/making-websites-win-dr-karl-blanks-ben-jesson
Most websites lose. Almost all of them.
Many never make a profit. Like chocolate teapots, they look nice but flop as soon as you pour hot customers into them.
Others are successful at first, and then get crushed by competitors.
This book is about how to buck the trend--to make websites that customers love and that are outrageously profitable.
The methodology is based on the authors' award-winning work growing many of the world's biggest web companies--plus hundreds of smaller, market-leading companies in over eighty different industries. In this book, you'll get:
What successful web businesses do differently (and others get wrong)
How to easily identify your website's biggest opportunities
A treasure trove of proven solutions for growing businesses
Discover how to grow your profits--by making winning websites that people love.
Questions that Sell: The Powerful Process for Discovering What Your Customer Really Wants by Paul Cherry
https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/questions-that-sell-paul-cherry
Recorded 1/25/2019