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Providing a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the changing context of government communications, this book unveils novel ways to integrate cutting-edge technologies to craft and maintain a positive public image. Examining the regulations that influence public information, the book addresses key topics and provides an up

Recommender systems use information filtering to predict user preferences. They are becoming a vital part of e-business. Recommender Systems: Algorithms and Applications dives into the theoretical underpinnings of these systems and looks at how theory is applied and implemented in actual systems.

Create high-end products that attract new customers with this step-by-step approach that maps principles of creativity and luxury to the stages of the customer buying journey.

"Let me tell you a story of a very expensive hiring mistake I made and what I learned from It."These very words were spoken to Craig Bissett over and over again by numerous business executives and hiring managers during his Human Capital consulting career. This book "My Worst Hire & What I Learned From It" allows the reader into 50 business leaders real life costly hiring mistakes and what they learned from their mistakes.Why risk challenging and costly mistakes in key personnel when you can learn through the hiring mistakes of seasoned business professionals?The cost to the associated organization of these hiring mistakes listed in this book total over $25 million dollars.¿A must read before you make your next hire! Buy it for yourself or for your hiring team members.

In this 30-day guide, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and sales expert, Klyn Elsbury, teaches you how to hack your brain to accelerate your sales career and personal happiness. Gone are the days when the gift of gab and a few witty quips will score you a deal. To stay on top, modern sales professionals need to solve problems, exude confidence, and form lasting relationships. Are you looking to improve your sales career? Is your career in a rut? Have you been wondering "Am I doing the right things to create an extraordinary life and career?" With Klyn as your sales coach, you can learn where most sales professionals go wrong, how you can avoid those same traps yourself, and what top-producers do differently than the rest of the team. It's time to end the excuses and frustrations and UNSTUCK YOURSELF.

Using a wide range of visual examples and case studies, the authors show how brands benefit from holistic promotional planning that embraces integrated media channels and takes a focus on shifts in advertising due to social media and the new digital environment.

Marketing Communications: A European Perspective provides an extensive overview of the key concepts, techniques and applications of marketing communications within a European context. The book covers all elements of the communications mix, including advertising, public relations, sponsorship, sales promotion, direct marketing, point-of-purchase communications, exhibitions, and personal selling. It also offers up-to-date coverage of e-communication, including e-marketing, mobile marketing, interactive television and relationship marketing. Building on the success of the third edition, the fourth edition comes fully updated with brand new material on a diverse range of products and brands such as Coke Zero, Twitter and Wii Fit, as well as coverage of topical issues such as the Barack Obama campaign and the EU anti-smoking campaign. The fifth edition of Marketing Communications: A European Perspective has been fully updated to include: A brand new chapter examining ethical issues in marketing communications Brand new end-of-chapter cases on international companies and organisations such as Mars, UNICEF, Carrefour and many more Video case material linking key marketing communication theory with the practical issues faced by marketing professionals in a variety of companies The book is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of marketing communications

Whether you're a small business owner struggling to make a living or a professional who's hit a career plateau, The Introvert's Edge to Networking is your path to a higher income and a rolodex of powerful connections.

The Value of Design in Retail and Branding creates a much-needed bridge between different disciplines involved in retail design, bringing together a range of research and insights for practice in these disciplines, improving the impact of design.

This inaugural edited collection for the Communicating Responsible Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series explores the active promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a public relations responsibility and provides new avenues for critiquing the ways in which power operates through public relations work and theory building.

This unique book explores the sustainability practices that benefit companies, stakeholders and society, by drawing upon the latest research and industry examples. Dissecting the interplay between marketing and society, Peterson encourages us to critically assess the demand for businesses to engage with sustainability guidelines and environmental concerns while remaining profitable.

This book is a collective project from three authors who have worked with nonprofits in developing and managing effective social media marketing tactics. Within these pages, you will find what you need to ensure your nonprofit is using social media platforms to boost your branding and marketing.When you use social media in your personal life, you connect with old friends, discover new interests, or belong to specialized groups that share your values. However, for nonprofits, social media is a way to connect with those who believe in your purpose. Social media allows nonprofits to showcase their human connection and garner more support.In Make Your Nonprofit Social, you will learn how to: - Expand your nonprofit's audience - Showcase the human side of your nonprofit - Choose the best platform to share your nonprofit with the world - Identify practical strategies you can use to amplify your nonprofit's mission - Design graphics to put your nonprofit front and center - And much more!This book is a collective project from three authors who have worked with nonprofits in developing and managing effective social media marketing tactics. Within these pages, you will find what you need to ensure your nonprofit is using social media platforms to boost your branding and marketing.

This book equips readers to optimize genuine export opportunities.Globalization or international development is more vital than ever for business survival, let alone growth. This book equips readers to optimize genuine export opportunities.It addresses the fears and risks associated with exporting and reassures readers that international growth is available to any business that conducts in-depth research, adopts the right attitude, and develops a comprehensive strategy.Readers are challenged to consider seven key business considerations facing them when seeking success in export markets: product and service adaptation, comprehensive communication, portable protected branding, high-performance tradeshows, optimized go-to-market channels, fit-for-purpose internal organization, and controlled effective cashflow.This concise book serves time-starved small to medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs, owners, and directors in any industry anywhere in the world who seek international or global development and those studying or teaching international business.

Stand Out! is a book about branding and its evolution, practice, and power in today's digital age.It presents the "e;why-do"e; and the "e;how-to"e; along with a passionate philosophy on transforming business through brand-centered change. It spells out a sequential, easily understandable, proven brand-building process and is a key reference text for anyone interested in brand development, leadership, innovation, and sustainable business growth. Reader understanding and enjoyment are enhanced by ample presentation of supporting tables, charts, case examples, expert tips, real-life experiences and pull-out quotes, as well as a helpful "e;word wizard"e; glossary at the end of each chapter explaining business terms and expressions used.This book democratizes branding: It makes branding-its history, theory, and practice-easily accessible and actionable. Stand Out! replaces the mystique of brand strategy with the magic of brand transformation....it makes it exciting and fun and puts that power directly into the hands of the business masses. It is a practical handbook for getting started with branding or for strengthening an existing brand management system. It gives the reader the confidence, permission, and skills to get branding now!

In this book, readers will find the inspiration needed to expand social media presence and add an appealing new dimension to branding and marketing efforts.Social media has exploded, not only for individuals but for businesses too. Today, more than 83% of small business owners say they believe social media is essential for their companies. Make Your Business Social provides actionable solutions for business owners to create and sustain a successful social media presence.In this book you will learn how to: build or expand a social media audience for your business; create graphics, even if you're not a designer; choose the right platforms for your business; cultivate strategies for present and future social media; and use real-life experience from current business owners.Make Your Business Social brings fresh insights from its three authors, who have spent years creating and managing social media for businesses. Within these pages, you will find the inspiration you need to expand your social media presence and add an appealing new dimension to your branding and marketing efforts.

Digital Marketing Guide for Start-up Entrepreneurs is a practical, step-by-step guide that will help budding entrepreneurs in setting up and executing their digital marketing strategy from scratch to achieve the goals they have set for their start-ups.Topics covered in this book include search engine optimization, content marketing, social media marketing, search engine marketing, and online reputation management are essential for entrepreneurs to learn and master for the success of their start-up.The author guides entrepreneurs in establishing a digital presence of their startups to jet fuel their business growth. He brings in real-life examples and insights gained from executing digital marketing strategies for start-ups and small businesses.This book is perfect for start-up entrepreneurs, founders, marketers, and small business owners who are unaware of digital marketing concepts and how to use digital marketing for their advantage. It will give them practical tips on applying digital marketing to increase their brand awareness and sales-a concise book that can be completed quickly. The text serves as a reference guide for start-up entrepreneurs, to which they can always come back to while setting up and executing their digital marketing strategy.

Innovative Selling is a unique book for corporate sales professionals and their sales leaders about how to prepare, manage, cope, and succeed at corporate global sales.Recent research has discovered concerning underlying discontent with professional sales people who represent global sales organizations. This book assists the sales professionals with navigating the dilemmas and pitfalls that confront today's corporate sellers so they emerge at the other end mentally healthy, skilled, and sane.The book also tackles and simplifies the basic steps of the overall sales process, territory planning, and product training, so as to ultimately improve your sales results.Many sales people today are looking for a simple and concise book to guide them through the corporate sales process-this is the book for you.

Highly Effective Marketing Analytics infuses analytics into marketing to help improve marketing performance and raise analytics IQ for companies that have not yet had much success with marketing analytics. The book reveals why marketing analytics has not yet kept the promise and clarifies confusions and misunderstanding surrounding marketing analytics. Highly Effective Marketing Analytics is a highly practical and pragmatic how-to book. The author illustrates step by step many innovative, practical, and cost-effective methodologies to solving the most challenging real-world problems facing marketers in today's highly competitive omnichannel environment.

Do we need yet another textbook on business fundamentals when every publishing house has stacks of such books ready for sale? No, we do not need another standard textbook. What we need is a new kind of teaching tool that at once accommodates the modern-day classroom and exposes new century students to the contemporary world of global capitalism in which today's businesses operate.In primer form, Dr. Patrice Flynn clarifies the functional areas of business, a term used to describe what every businessperson needs to understand to be successful, from entrepreneurship to small business development, legal structure, going global, finance, big data, marketing, management, and more.This primer demonstrates how a master teacher teaches new century students, thus giving supremacy to pedagogy along with rigorous content. The primer can be used with both business students and the growing number of nonbusiness students interested in learning how business works before entering the world of work. Every student will come away not only with a sense of the business areas that pique their interest but also with a deeper understanding of business from which to craft next career steps.

Mature businesses across all advanced countries are struggling to find new markets. Indian market has been estimated huge in size, approximately $1.2 trillion in purchasing power parity for the households earning an annual income of less than $4,000. This comes to almost 880 million of Indian population of which 22 percent is urban India and 78 percent rural India.Referred to as bottom of the pyramid/low income/subsistence markets, while these markets offer immense business opportunities they also pose challenges. The needs of this segment have to be addressed by the corporate world but it might need a new approach with new business frameworks for implementation. The companies must understand what constitutes value for this segment, how it is different from other segments and how firms can offer value through their market offerings; accordingly what could be the successful business models. Decoding Customer Value at the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Urban India Perspective answers these questions through a practical, rigorous and research oriented way. This book is a must read for business executives across the globe with an interest in the low income customers in India.

This book discusses competitive market dynamics explain contextual market entropy caused because of swift changes in the innovation and technology scenarios.It delineates the attributes of cognitive ergonomics of consumers responding to the market dynamics under the shrinking scenarios of large markets. The author analyzes the emerging theory of chaos, fragmentation of markets, and agile business models to gain advantage in the competitive marketplace and deliberates upon factors that are critical to success of firms. In addition, this book presents new insights on developing hybrid business models using both aggressive and defensive marketing strategies to manage market chaos and behavioral complexities of consumers.