Two new marketing books that every marketer should know about
I’ve been travelling to Pune and Shirdi over the weekend and hence haven’t been able to add to the blog. I picked up two very interesting books from Landmark bookshop in Pune.
Book #1: Connected Marketing - the viral buzz and word of mouth revolution. This book is about “viral marketing”. It gives you live examples of real viral marketing campaigns and how they worked. From the Amazon site -
Connected Marketing is a business book about the state of the art in viral, buzz and word-of-mouth marketing. Written by 17 experts working at the cutting edge of viral, buzz and word-of-mouth marketing, Connected Marketing introduces the range of scalable, predictable and measurable solutions for driving business growth by stimulating positive brand talk between clients, customers and consumers. Connected Marketing shows how businesses can harness connectivity between clients, customers and consumers as powerful marketing media for driving demand.
* Focuses on the consumer to consumer approach to marketing: word of mouth
* Advises on ways to create an epidemic demand for a new product or service
* Shows how to identify and form relationships with socially infectious individuals in order to convey the marketing message
Book #2: The Marketing Gurus - Lessons from the best marketing books of all time. This book provides amazing overviews and extracts of a whole bunch of famous marketing books. From the Amazon webiste -
As the editor of Soundview Executive Book Summaries, which distills business books into 5,000-word recaps, Murray offers 17 such summaries of marketing books published in the last 15 years. It’s arguably a narrow range for the best “of all time”—even with big names like Regis McKenna and Sergio Zyman on board. Each book summary begins with a quick summation, often making redundant the introductions written especially for the collection. And though the condensed versions manage to extract the key ideas from each text, some authors fare better than others. Faith Popcorn’s unique voice survives compression, for example, much better than Seth Godin’s does. The selected books are sequenced to suggest a broader argument that runs from connecting with customers to marketing in the 21st century, but the actual connections between the various works are largely unstated. Unless you’re completely new to marketing research, chances are you’ve come across at least one of these books already, but Soundview’s summaries are a good introduction for those with no background. (June)
Book Description - Since 1978, Soundview Executive Book Summaries has offered its subscribers condensed versions of the best business books published each year. Soundview’s summaries have won it acclaim as the definitive selection service for sophisticated business book readers.
For the first time ever, Soundview is bringing together summaries of seventeen essential marketing classics in a single volume. The Marketing Gurus includes two all-new, previously unpublished summaries—The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore. Other featured books include:
• Positioning by Jack Trout and Al Ries
• Kotler on Marketing by Philip Kotler
• The Popcorn Report by Faith Popcorn
• The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• Relationship Marketing by Regis McKenna
• And more
The Marketing Gurus distills thousands of pages into fewer than three hundred, making it ideal for busy professionals, students, and anyone curious about how marketing has evolved. #end.
In the coming weeks, I will read these books and pull out important and relevant messages that pertain to this blog and your online success. You can then decide if purchasing these books will help you in marketing your business.
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Filed under: General, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Viral Marketing
