Win new customers—and keep them coming back
Whether you run a billion-dollar company or a mom-and-pop small business, you
have to know your customers and know what they want. Written by three marketing experts,
Tips & Traps for Marketing Your Business is filled with marketing best practices that
show you how to win over new customers and make existing customers more profitable.
You’ll also find practical and proven marketing tips and traps to help you grow your
business, lessons learned from realworld experience, and tangible examples from the
leading companies in business today.
- Connect with your target market
- Unlock hidden streams of profit and increase sales
- Develop and deliver a compelling story for your brand
- Effectively and profitably manage customer relationships
- Determine how much media weight is enough and how to avoid spending too
much
- Attract customers to your Web site
Scott W. Cooper is president of Marketing Engine Group, a marketing
planning firm, and coauthor of The Successful Marketing Plan and The One-Day Marketing
Plan. Fritz P. Grutzner is President and founder of Brandgarten, a brand strategy
consulting firm. Birk P. Cooper works in project management at Brandgarten.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is Marketing? 1
Gathering Information 5
Defining the Scope of Your Business 27
Defining Your Brand 37
Who Is Your Target? 59
What Is Your Message? 73
Measuring Performance 87
Advertising and Promotion 103
Traditional Media 119
Publicity 133
Interactive Marketing 143
Creating the Customer Experience 167
Managing Customer Relationships 179
Innovation-Your Marketing Engine 189
A Final Word on Marketing Your Business 197
A Consumer Behavior Framework 199
Internet Analytics 207
Index 209
256 pages, Paperback