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Title: Winning the Customer

Subtitle: Turn Consumers into Fans and Get Them to Spend More

Author: Lou Imbriano

Narrator: Charles Bice

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-13

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

During his nine years in senior marketing positions with the New England Patriots, Lou Imbriano laid the foundation and marketing vision for the football team that led to its astronomical growth and explosive revenue - perfectly positioning them to be ready for when the Patriots became repeat Super Bowl champions and the NFL brand to beat.

Now CEO of TrinityOne, a strategic marketing firm, Lou has an undefeated record of showing all types of companies how to tackle customer relationships and convert them into tangible revenue. In Winning the Customer, Lou delivers his original strategies for both short- and long-term financial success:

Throughout the book, youll find Lous dynamic personal stories drawn right from his years of real-world business experience. Hes learned that to maximize revenue, every organization must both turn its customers into fans and coax those fans to spend freely. Winning the Customer shows you how to do just that using the Three Tiers of Customer Relationships. Imbriano shares his strategies with his innovative DELIVERS system: Dedication, Entertainment, Loyalty, Investment, Vision, Energy, Responsibility, and Sacrifice.

Filled with practical information and written in Lous inimitable conversational style, Winning the Customer is your all-pro offensive attack against old, ineffective methods and flat results. Lous tools will give any business an inspired team, supersized income, and a virtual stadium full of engaged, high-paying customers.

Members Reviews:

Book presents nothing earth shattering. Mostly reinforces what most companies already do / know

The book is a light quick read. Should not take the average reader more then 2-3 sittings to go through.

Overall, the book, presents nothing earth shattering. Mainly it focuses on concepts vs. actionable tactics. For example, the book discusses at length how important it is to get to know your customers and their habits. Try to move a level 4 customer to a Level 3 to a Level 2 to a Level 1. I think we all know that concept and try to do it each day, but it's easier said in concept vs. action.

Another concept in the book is Customer Service. The book tells numerous stories how everyone in your company should be an ambassador of your brand / company and every interaction counts. Again, I think most of us know this.

If you work in the sports industry there are a few good stories and ideas to implement at your team to add value. I really enjoyed the changes Lou made on the away game trips when bringing sponsors. Having had the opportunity in the past to travel with a team, the items and care Lou instituted would have made the trip much more memorable and more of a story than it was.

Overall it's a decent book that you can read quickly and reinforce many of the things your company does already. You should come away with at least 1 new idea, which makes it worth the time to read and price of the book.

What the customer wants!

I currently work in the professional sports industry (team side) and was very excited to have this title recommended to me by a friend. It is difficult to find books that relate directly to what I am so deeply involved with on a daily basis. At the same time, being in the sports business rarely allows me to be a complete fan, so I was ecstatic when I saw "Winning the Customer" was written by the former CMO of the Patriots.

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Title: Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever

Subtitle: The Inside Story of How One Insane Gamble, Tons of Unbelievable Hype, and Millions of Wild Deals Made Billions for One Ballsy Joker

Author: Frank Sennett

Narrator: Bryan Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Groupons Biggest Deal Ever is the exclusive, behind-the-scenes account of the incredible rise of discount coupon giant Groupon and the compelling story of its offbeat founder, Andrew Mason, as he created a juggernaut of online commerce and ignited a consumer revolution that is disrupting how people shop all over the world.

Love him for saving you 50 percent on last nights Indian dinner or hate him for cashing in big when he could be losing millions for merchants and investors alike, Mason - Groupons thirtysomething founder and CEO - made an incredible gamble when he turned down Googles $6 billion buyout offer to go it alone. The experts thought he was insane. Groupon was little more than two years old and staffed from top to bottom with twentysomethings. The wild ride couldnt last, but Mason thought otherwise, and with dreams of a potential IPO that could be massive, he liked his odds. But did he make the right decision, or did he blow a chance to continue to grow the fastest growing company in history? Is Mason an Internet genius, or is he sitting on another bubble that could burst at any moment? While everyone has an opinion on Groupon, Frank Sennett has written the only inside account. With exclusive access, interviews, and documents that no one outside of the company has seen or been able to report on, Groupons Biggest Deal Ever has every twist and turn from start-up to IPO and is the real story of Masons audacious gamble and the meteoric rise of Groupon from start-up to $16.7 billion online giant.

Members Reviews:

Seems I Read This Book a Week Too Early

A week after I read this book, the CEO was fired for performance. Surprise. While the book goes into some detail as to how Groupon found itself, it spent more time painting the CEO as child-coder who couldn't grow up and run a company...or get out of the way. So, the board did what he should have done...leave.

Overall, the narrator was fine, the story was ok, but with each chapter I found out less and less about Groupon and more about why Andrew Mason deserved what he got.

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Title: Renegades Write the Rules

Subtitle: How the Digital Royalty Use Social Media to Innovate

Author: Amy Jo Martin

Narrator: Amy Jo Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Learn the rules to building loyal (and lucrative) digital followings....

Renegades Write the Rules reveals the innovative strategies behind the social media success of todays top celebrities, brands, and sports icons, and how you can follow their lead.

Author Amy Jo Martin is the founder of Digital Royalty and the woman who pioneered how professional sports integrate social media. In this book she shows how to build a faithful following and beat the competition clamoring for people's attention by continually delivering value - when, where, and how people want it. People want to be heard, to be involved, to be entertained, to be adventurous, to be informed.

Members Reviews:

Exceptional

I found this book to be revelatory and shared it with a number of people. Great read for anyone trying to understand the potential of social media. Full of great ideas for experienced folks as well.

Do not waste your time or money

Would you try another book from Amy Jo Martin and/or Amy Jo Martin?

Maybe but I could not make it past halfway through this. Now if all of the actual "content" is in the second half, then she failed to convince me to stick around to find out. The first chapters come off as self promoting teenage hero worship, and almost smarmy. More of a autobiography about how well connected she is to the"well connected". You need to grab your reader early. I'm glad I listened to an incredibly motivating and content stuffed book "Duct Tape Marketing" by John Jantsch first or i would be back to thinking that social media is about what type of sushi i had last night. If you are a business professional curious about the power of social media and what it can do for you, run, now..... Pay attention , I.'m only going to say this once. DUCT TAPE MARKETING!!!!!!!!

What do you think your next listen will be?

Not sure, browsing now...

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Not gonna hang around to find out

Any additional comments?

Not really

Amy Jo is smart /tactful & her story is relatable

Would you listen to Renegades Write the Rules again? Why?

May be... It was good but I don't usually listen to books again unless it was amazing.

Any additional comments?

I liked how relatable Amy Jo, and her story is very honest. There was nothing in the book that was crazy groundbreaking, but she understands that herself. She is open, candid and honest. Her examples of working with different client's also really help to open up what it is about social media that is so attractive and can be so beneficial for people.

self absorbed, self-indulged

Would you try another book written by Amy Jo Martin or narrated by Amy Jo Martin?

wasted my money - couldn't listen to any more self-congratulatory, indulgent, personal reviews read out by the author about herself. It was awkward and I feel like I wasted my money.

Would you ever listen to anything by Amy Jo Martin again?

No, her voice is annoying too

How did the narrator detract from the book?

annoying, self absorbed

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

frustration

Any additional comments?

Don't waste your money on this book

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Title: Buy Now

Subtitle: Creative Marketing that Gets Customers to Respond to You and Your Product

Author: Rick Cesari, Ron Lynch

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Learn the secrets of direct-response marketing with the man who created the George Foreman Grill campaign.

In today's highly competitive global marketplace, businesses have to do more than just advertise their products. By taking advantage of the accountable advertising model that direct response has to offer, you can improve your bottom line, build brands, and develop lasting relationships with legions of satisfied customers.

In Buy Now, Rick Cesari reveals 25 years' worth of insights and methods, enabling you to make the most of direct response marketing in your business toolkit. Whether you're a business owner, executive, inventor, or marketer, Buy Now gives you the secrets behind the successful campaigns that catapulted products into millions of homes.

Cesari has put more companies on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies than anyone else. Buy Now to launch your products and campaigns to new heights - and connect with customers as never before - with Cesari's market-leading insights.

Members Reviews:

definitely recommend

I will definitely buy a physical copy

I didn't expect for this book to be enjoyable due to its topic, boy was I wrong. it was worth listening to it. the narrator did an outstanding job. his mood kept my attention. for those wanting to know more about marketing. add this to your list as a must.

Great place to learn the basics of marketing

This is a must read book for anybody with a business. My basic background was not in strategic business marketing. However, this book has not only brought my net profit up in all of my businesses. It has also generated significant concepts and ideas to drive my business on a global scale after applying what was discussed to my businesses. Period, this book works!

Thank you,

Rick and Ron for writing what I call a master piece and great job Mr. Bray in your enthusiastic narration.

some good bits, but mostly just an advertisement

Would you try another book from Rick Cesari and Ron Lynch and/or R. C. Bray?

probably not

What could Rick Cesari and Ron Lynch have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

More useful information and how-to's, less talking about how amazing your firm is. the book served essentially as a long-form advertisement discussing their firm's incredible bredth and depth of experience, and had an implicit (so you should hire us to take care of this for you) after almost every paragraph. There were certainly some useful pieces of information, though, so it gets 3 stars in my book.

What about R. C. Brays performance did you like?

Excellent narration.

What did you take away from Buy Now that you can apply to your work?

consumers think in $20 increments, and the difference between how men and women consider purchases

Overall this is a fantastic book

It gives great insight on the foreman grill success.

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Title: Go Mobile

Subtitle: Location-Based Marketing, Apps, Mobile Optimized Ad Campaigns, 2D Codes, and Other Mobile Strategies to Grow Your Business

Author: Jeanne Hopkins, Jamie Turner

Narrator: Christine Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Set-up, run, and measure successful mobile media marketing campaigns.

Go Mobile is packed with tools, tips, and techniques that will help readers set-up, launch, run, and measure mobile media campaigns. This book will help readers understand the different mobile media platforms, learn how to us SMS for business, incorporate 2D and QR Codes into their campaigns, develop mobile Web sites and mobile apps, see case studies, and much more.

Go Mobile offers practical, step-by-step guidance for implementing a mobile marketing campaign. Readers will learn how to:

With these effective, efficient, and integrated mobile marketing campaigns, business owners and marketers will garner enviable response rates and watch their revenue grow more rapidly than ever before.

Members Reviews:

Not worth the money or time.

I rarely write reviews. However, I felt it was necessary to save others from a total waste of time. The information is not even good enough to be considered as basic marketing. If you choose to spend the money, remember you were warned.

Fascinating story about the mobile startup

Where does Go Mobile rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

It is in the top 5 of my mobile markreting books

What was one of the most memorable moments of Go Mobile?

Learning how Hip Cricket took the ball and ran with it. Them being the innovators in hitting the Spanish speaking market

What about Christine Marshalls performance did you like?

Giving information on the growth in 3rd world countries.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes. In my car since I drive often during the day.

Any additional comments?

Great job Audible! I can now complete 4 to 6 books a month.

Top-Ranked Mobile Marketing Book on Amazon

What made the experience of listening to Go Mobile the most enjoyable?

Disclosure: I am one of the co-authors of this book.

Our intent in writing Go Mobile was to provide a step-by-step road map for people who are interested in learning how to set-up, launch and run a mobile marketing campaign. We've written it in an easy-to-read style that moves along at a good clip. If you're interested in learning how to run a mobile marketing campaign for your business, this book may be just what you're looking for.

It continues to be one of the top-ranked mobile marketing books on Amazon, and our hope is that the same will happen on Audible.

What about Christine Marshalls performance did you like?

Christine does an excellent job of expressing the content the book. Her voice is soothing, yet professional. She's done a terrific job with Go Mobile.

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Title: Good Works!

Subtitle: Marketing and Corporate Initiatives that Build a Better World...and the Bottom Line

Author: Philip Kotler, David Hessekiel, Nancy Lee

Narrator: Christine Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Businesses can do well by doing good - Kotler, Hessekiel, and Lee show you how!

Marketing guru Philip Kotler, cause marketing authority David Hessekiel, and social marketing expert Nancy Lee have teamed up to create a guide rich with actionable advice on integrating marketing and corporate social initiatives into your broader business goals.

Businesspeople who mix cause and commerce are often portrayed as either opportunistic corporate "causewashers" cynically exploiting nonprofits, or visionary social entrepreneurs for whom conducting trade is just a necessary evil in their quest to create a better world. Marketing and corporate social initiatives requires a delicate balancing act between generating financial and social dividends. Good Works is a book for business builders, not a corporate social responsibility treatise. It is for capitalists with the hearts and smarts to generate positive social impacts and bottom-line business results.

Good Works is rich with actionable advice on integrating marketing and corporate social initiatives into your broader business goals.

With Good Works, you'll find that you can generate significant resources for your cause while achieving financial success.

Members Reviews:

Essential for both non-profits and for profits interested in Cause Marketing

I was required to read this book for graduate school and I am so happy I did. I work in the non-profit world and this is an excellent and business oriented book. It shows great strategy, excellent case studies, and a very clear set of parameters to decide what are meaningful and beneficial Cause Marketing partnerships and opportunities. I recommended this to my team as an essential read for our organization.

Hard work and Good Work

This book is one of the most practical and seriously useful books I have read in recent times. There is an enormous amount of effort that goes into the production of a book of this kind. Just creating the 'case study' material set requires negotiating with a LOT of people and you have to admire the commitment of authors who set out to show the world that Good Works are out there and can be used to create strategies of your own. Every organisation which hopes to do good regardless of whether they are socially oriented or not should use something like this book to inform their strategies. I intend to use it for my MBA corporate social responsibility class and my research methods class - a bit of a mixed bag but when you read the book you will know why it can be put to different purposes!

Five Stars

Great book for cause marketing class.

Four Stars

Interesting

Good Works! is a Great Book for Companies & Causes

This is an exciting new book for marketers as we finally have a place where David Hessekiel, founder of Cause Marketing Forum, has shared his experiences, insights and advice on cause marketing and corporate partnerships. This book takes you from start to finish on why doing well by doing good is no longer optional, through developing a program and measuring the results.

Some of the chapters I really enjoyed included:

Chapter 4: Cause-Related Marketing: Making Contributions to Causes Based on Product Sales and Consumer Actions

This chapter has a clear explanation of the transactional programs I write about on my blog and nine great examples of model programs.

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Title: Optimize

Subtitle: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, and Content Marketing

Author: Lee Odden

Narrator: J. D. Hart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Attract, engage, and inspire your customers with an "Optimize and Socialize" content marketing strategy.

Optimize is designed to give readers a practical approach to integrating search and social media optimization with content marketing to boost relevance, visibility, and customer engagement. Companies, large and small, will benefit from the practical planning and creative content marketing tactics in this book that have been proven to increase online performance across marketing, public relations, and customer service. Learn to incorporate essential content optimization and social media engagement principles thereby increasing their ability to acquire and engage relevant customers online. Optimize provides insights from Lee Odden, one of the leading authorities on Content and Online Marketing.

This book explains how to:

Optimize offers a tested approach for a customer-centric and adaptive online marketing strategy that incorporates the best of content, social media marketing, and search engine optimization tactics.

Members Reviews:

Not great to listen to

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I think the information is great and there are a ton of really great action items throughout the book.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator sounded so monotone and boring to listen to that it made it hard to really listen to and gain anything out of. I've listened to other marketing and SEO books and the narrator actually sounded like marketing was exciting. In this case I kept thinking that there is no way this actually a real person reading this book. Book was great, audio really not so much.

Disappointed. Very hard to follow.

Any additional comments?

This is a very hard book to listen to. I gave up after 45 minutes.

The subject matter should not be difficult to comprehend, but this book is, The author uses very long sentences and strings together a lot of unnecessary words. I've read scores of audio books -- this is the most difficult book to read I've ever encountered. This is also the first book review I've ever written.

It's possible that a hard copy of the book would be easier to follow, but I doubt it.

Don't Waste Your Money

What disappointed you about Optimize?

The organization of the content within the book is terrible- for instance, the author brings up KPI's multiple times, then finally when you are half-way through the book he finally explains what a KPI is. For the record, I know what a KPI is so this was fine for me, but what about those who don't? If you intended to explain what a KPI is, why wouldn't you do it the first time you bring it up. There are several issues like this throughout the book.

The reading of the infographics are absolutely painful.

This is an absolute beginners guide, in the form of a tedious text book. If you have any knowledge of digital marketing at all you should get something more advanced as you won't learn anything here.

The author references other areas of the book that I bet if you pulled every sentence with a reference out and put them into a separate document it would likely be a book in and of itself.

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Title: Social Marketing to the Business Customer

Subtitle: Listen to Your B2B Market, Generate Major Account Leads, and Build Client Relationships

Author: Paul Gillin, Eric Schwartzman

Narrator: John Allen Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

The first audiobook devoted entirely to B2B social marketing...

B2B markets are fundamentally different from consumer markets. Decisions are made on value, not impulse. Buying cycles are complex, often with many stakeholders involved. Relationships and support are critical. Bet-the-business decisions demand discipline, knowledge, and lots of information.

This hands-on guide covers topics unique to this segment, including cost justification, prospecting and lead generation, matching tools to the sales funnel, building, B2B search engine optimization, social media monitoring, social media policy development, long-term client relationships, gaining stakeholder support, building a more transparent organization, and what's coming next.

Leverage the vast business-to-business potential of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and many other social media platforms today with Social Marketing to the Business Customer!

Members Reviews:

Horrible Narration

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Better Narration. The narrator lacked enthusiasm for the subject and was, quite frankly, extremely boring.

If youve listened to books by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman before, how does this one compare?

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of John Allen Nelson?

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Title: Answering the Ultimate Question: How Net Promoter Can Transform Your Business

Author: Richard Owen, Laura L. Brooks

Narrator: Melissa Edris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question - that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?" - challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms 'bad profits' and 'good profits' and pointed to a faster, much more accurate way of gauging customers' real loyalty to a company, introducing a quantitative measure (the Net Promoter Score) for establishing a baseline and effectively tracking changes going forward.

Richard Owen and Laura Brooks are co-developers, along with Reichheld, of the methodology behind answering the question. In this book, Owen and Brooks tell how based on a variety of real case studies' to actually embed Net Promoter discipline in organizations of all types.

Members Reviews:

Recommended reading for those implementing the NPS system

Covers the basics of implementing NPS and useful supplement to the Ultimate Question 2.0. Also got me thinking about the basics of customer segmentation. I liked the concept of using a "customer corridor" to map the customer's journey through your organization and measure satisfaction at key touch points.

interesting but technical

This book is full of good information and has good case studies. I dealt it was a little dry and technical at times.

Excellent answer

The ultimate question needed this as a sequel it helped to put the missing pieces together for implementation. Enjoy the read.

A fantastic book that will assist any company implement NPS

An essential book for anyone remotely considering implementing NPS. Having read it over three times it will be our guidebook for our company

great read

This is a well done book about the net promoter system and how best to use it in your particular environment today.

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Title: Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition

Author: Michael A. Stelzner

Narrator: Phillip DuBois

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Business, Marketing

Publisher's Summary:

If you've been let down by the undelivered promises of marketing, this book is for you. Launch reveals a new way to grow your business that involves focusing on the needs of others, giving gifts, working with outsiders, and restraining your marketing messages. These principles are precisely the opposite of traditional marketing. Yet they work. And they are the future. If you follow the formula outlined in this book, you can attract countless customers and prospects, resulting in amazing business growth.

This book will show you how to:

Launch isnt like other marketing books. Rather than making keen observations about others who've achieved success, the ideas and principles in this book were developed, refined, and practiced by the author to great success. Pick up a copy for yourself and one for a friend.

Members Reviews:

Launch IT!

Any additional comments?

It is very good needed but it did need a PDF bought kindle version.

I am finding this to be so for other business books and am so glad that there will be many or some that you can get whisper sync VOICE!

MY QUESTION TO AUDIBLE/KINDLE/AMAZON. ARE YOU GOING TO DO A MEMBERSHIP TO KINDLE LIKE AUDIBLE? P L E A S E!!!!

Excellent social media how-to

I remember when Michael launched his blog and I recall talking to our team about how impressively he was growing reach. I don't know him personally, but watched with awe from a distance.

This is an excellent listen because it is a how-to guide from someone who really did it. There is a great deal of uncommon sense in this book and I whole heartedly recommend it.

I think too many people believe success in social media will come from a viral video or a facebook campaign. This is a much more carefully iterated approach that should be followed by 95% of companies using social to raise their profile. It is not rocket science it is merely great tactical execution.