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Lädt ... Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketingvon Harry Beckwith
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Selling the invisible is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. Selling the invisible covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as: Greatness may get you nowhere -- Focus groups don'ts -- The more you say, the less people hear -- Seeing the forest around the falling trees. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Selling the Invisible is a quick read. It's chopped up into tiny sections, each summarized with a compact piece of advice at the end. I had some concerns about whether this book would be relevant to my work in a doctor's office. I shouldn't have worried. Beckwith's advice is applicable to just about every industry you could possibly imagine.
Reading the book, I learned a lot about how prospects think. I was surprised that I'd never thought about marketing this way before. I am, after all, a prospective client for a lot of services. I'd just never thought about what it was that made me choose which service to go with. Beckwith's advice is a lot of common sense, but it's likely things you haven't thought about before.
There's plenty of good information in here. You'll learn how to attract a client. How to keep a client. How not to scare a prospective client away. How to differentiate yourself from your competition. How to develop your brand. How to sell something based on promises alone. It's very useful as a starting point.
Really, the only problem I had with it is that it's seventeen years old. In this day and age, social media marketing is hugely important. More important in most industries, at least, than advertising in trade journals and on the radio. Because of that, I felt that a lot of the information, though good, was outdated. It would be interesting to see the book updated with information on where to start with online advertising, and what to do in terms of getting set up on social media.
But all in all, it's a solid introduction to the world of marketing for someone like myself, with no experience in selling anything. ( )