The 5 Minute Marketer

Quick marketing ideas with fast results! You run a small business and you want to get ahead of the competition, but how can you give resources to marketing when you're short on time and the budget is tight? The solution is here! The 5-Minute Marketer is packed with 395 tried-and-tested ways to market your business in 5 minutes or less. Written by Stefan Ekberg, an author with over 20 years' experience in marketing for small firms, this is an amazing book of marketing hacks for anyone who doesn't want to waste time when spreading the word about their business. Some of the 395 techniques will be new to you, while some are familiar ideas that are too easily forgotten in the day-to-day pressures of running a business. You'll find tips on generating new orders, speeding up sales, selling more online, improving your website and much more. Read with an open mind and highlight the ideas you would like to try, then just find 5 minutes and put them into practice. Now what are you waiting for? In 5 minutes' time you could have marketed your business in at least one new way. Don't delay any longer - start reading and start marketing. Become a 5-minute marketer!

Praise for 60-Minute Brand Strategist "A fresh take on the wisdom of putting brand strategy at the heart of corporate strategy. Brilliant insights for a fast-moving world." —Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry "Idris Mootee paints a sharp, comprehensive, and finely articulated analysis of the potential of meaningful brands in the 21st century's cultural scenario and business landscape. The result is a smart manual that reminds you and your company how to build relevant, authentic, sustainable, and successful brands in an evolving society." —Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo Inc. "Idris's book teaches us how to engage today's increasingly cynical consumers on a deeper emotional level to build real equity and leadership. He demonstrates how to break out of the box and connect business strategy to brand strategy, and how the right brand story never really ends!" —Blair Christie, SVP and CMO, Cisco Systems, Inc. "It's rare to find a book that's both inspiring and practical but Idris nailed it! He has crafted the ultimate guide to brand building in the connected world with visual clarity and thought-provoking strategy." —Eric Ryan, cofounder, Method Products, Inc. This book is about one thing only: branding. Period. In this economy ruled by ideas, the only sustainable form of leadership is brand leadership. 60-Minute Brand Strategist offers a fast-paced, field-tested view of how branding decisions happen in the context of business strategy, not just in marketing communications. With a combi-nation of perspectives from business strategy, customer experience, and even anthropology, this new and updated edition outlines the challenges traditional branding faces in a hyper-connected world. This essential handbook of brand marketing offers an encyclopedia of do's and don'ts, including new case studies of how these concepts are being used by the world's most successful and valuable brands. 60-Minute Brand Strategist is your battle plan, filled with powerful branding tools and techniques to win your customers' hearts and defeat the competition.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Add 50% to 100% to Your SalesÂIn 5 Minutes Per Day 5-Minute Selling presents a proven, simple process that can double your sales, even if you donÂt have time for an elaborate new sales system. When you spend your days scrambling to take orders and resolving customer issues, there is little time for new sales techniques. This book is for you. In 5-Minute Selling, Alex Goldfayn describes how thousands of his clients and workshop attendees have generated dramatic annual sales growth with short bursts of action throughout the day. With three-second efforts throughout the day, you can add 50 to 100% to your sales. The techniques in this book are simple but powerful: YouÂll learn the power of picking up the phone proactively to call customers and prospects when nothing is wrong, because almost nobody does this YouÂll get approaches for offering customers additional products and servicesÂand asking about what else they are buying elsewhereÂbecause almost nobody does this either YouÂll also learn about the low-tech but incredibly effective singular impact of the hand-written note In short, 5-Minute Selling is about showing customers and prospects that we care about them more than our competition does with simple, repeated, lightning-fast, high-value, consistent communications. DonÂt Read This Book, DO THIS BOOK: 5-Minute Selling lays out a Two-Week Challenge for you implement in your sales work. Follow the detailed process for five minutes per day, for 10 working days (less than one total hour of time), and, like thousands before you, you will begin to see dramatic improvements in your sales growth.

Short activities reflecting real-life business situations to complement both tailored and coursebook based materials.

Ideal for early years to KS1 children who are learning at home. Daisy Upton has two little kids. She loves them - but they drive her mad. So, to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house. And @FiveMinuteMum was born. In her first book, she has collected 150+ games that take 5 minutes to set up & 5 minutes to tidy up. From pasta posting to alphabet knock down, it's a recipe book for guilt free parenting! And as Daisy was a teaching assistant, your little ones will be learning while they play! What could be better? GIVE ME FIVE is the perfect companion for anyone who wants five minutes peace. Also available: Five Minute Mum: Time For School Five Minute Mum: On the Go "I love Five Minute Mum. She's managed to come up with a huge array of activities for kids that are fun and educational yet don't require an Art degree or Diploma in Patience to execute."Sarah Turner, aka Unmumsy Mum

A powerful story leveraged through word of mouth, mouse, and mobile is the secret to connecting with customers in our time-starved and media-fragmented society. Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned veteran, these easy-to-read-and-apply five-minute articles will enhance your efforts. As a sequel to Mary's first book, Five-Minute Marketing, this book includes the best of her published columns, entries from her popular blog www.fiveminutemarketing.com, and other previously unpublished work. Dip in or read it cover to cover and ramp up your marketing quickly. You will learn how to - generate WOM, publicity, and media interest in your business; - track trends and take advantage of marketing opportunity; - use social media to your advantage; - brand your business, your ideas, or your products; - model winning approaches to advertising from industry leaders; - leverage your story; and much, much more! "Mary Charleson's 5-Minute Marketing columns consistently provide entrepreneurs with valuable advice about marketing their products, their companies and themselves. This book includes the best of her recent columns along with insights from her blog and previously unpublished work." -Timothy Renshaw, Editor, Business in Vancouver "Today positive WOM may be the single greatest influencer of a brand's future success. If you want to know how to succeed Mary's book is a great place to start." -Lance Saunders, Executive VP, Managing Director, DDB Canada "Engaging, entertaining, and a born teacher, Mary makes learning fun. From the classroom to the boardroom, she offers up great marketing insights. This book is simply an extension of her style to the written page." -Charlene Hill, Department Chair, School of Business, Capilano University

Get the marketing knowledge you need first and fast! Mary Charleson makes a complex subject simple and does it in over sixty short articles for the time-starved reader. Utilizing Canadian research and business examples, she gives readers the marketing tools to succeed. Pithy, often irreverent, but never short on actionable detail, this is the marketing book you'll wish you had discovered long ago. You will discover: Why brands that are giving back will be tomorrow's leaders How to utilize new media and E-marketing opportunities Why marketing to women is important for all businesses How to advertise effectively and get more media coverage How to develop a strong brand and a winning strategy How to use marketing research to your advantage Why understanding sales is critical to success What emerging trends you need to monitor

The Five-Minute MBA is a deceptively simple little book that presents wise business advice in a clear and concise way. Written by top ‘corporate doctor’ Wayne Brown, it teaches ten crucial lessons vital for everyone at every level of business. By distilling the MBA into under 100 pages, Brown has ensured that only the most important and necessary bits remain, those that will lead to dramatic improvements in any business. From treating customers correctly and fixing mistakes upfront to doing the right thing and remaining accountable, The Five-Minute MBA is a practical, experience-based MBA crash-course that is guaranteed to offer genuine value, whether you are a junior, mid-level or senior businessperson. Now you, too, can learn how to bring everyday good health to your business.

More than half-a-million business leaders have discovered the power of the StoryBrand Framework, created by New York Times best-selling author and marketing expert Donald Miller. And they are making millions. If you use the wrong words to talk about your product, nobody will buy it. Marketers and business owners struggle to effectively connect with their customers, costing them and their companies millions in lost revenue. In a world filled with constant, on-demand distractions, it has become near-impossible for business owners to effectively cut through the noise to reach their customers, something Donald Miller knows first-hand. In this book, he shares the proven system he has created to help you engage and truly influence customers. The StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their companies. Without a clear, distinct message, customers will not understand what you can do for them and are unwilling to engage, causing you to lose potential sales, opportunities for customer engagement, and much more. In Building a StoryBrand, Donald Miller teaches marketers and business owners to use the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. His proven process has helped thousands of companies engage with their existing customers, giving them the ultimate competitive advantage. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching you: The seven universal story points all humans respond to; The real reason customers make purchases; How to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and How to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.

Stop Making Excuses - Start Making Progress with Your Music Career #1 Best Seller in the Music Business category in February 2015! The purpose of this book is to give you a comprehensive list of bite-size marketing activities that can literally be done in five minutes or less. No kidding. Anyone - including YOU - can do this! Of course, you can spend more than five minutes on them if you want to. But if you're pressed for time, you now have at your fingertips a handy selection of simple marketing actions you can take. Use this book as a solution to that age-old complaint, "I don't have time to promote my music." Or as the antidote to the faulty rationale, "I'll focus on marketing when I have more time." Don't get sucked into the "no-time, bad-time" trap! Will five-minute activities really make a difference? Are they even worth doing? For me, the answer is a resounding YES! Engaging in these actions on a daily basis will create momentum. They will help develop new habits that will serve you well. In fact, I bet it won't take long at all before you start to see the benefits. You never know when an email you send, a photo you post online, or some simple step you take will lead to a new fan, live show, or exposure opportunity. But if you take no action and keep putting things off until some mystical time in the future ... the only thing you'll see is stagnation. My promise to you ... If you take consistent action, continue to move forward, and keep chipping away at it, you will see results! But you must do these things on a daily basis. With this book in your collection of marketing tools, there is no excuse to go days or weeks (or months or years) without doing something to make progress with your music career. Read through these lists of five-minute marketing actions. Highlight the ones that resonate with you. And whenever you have five minutes to spare, pick one and act on it! You can get started by taking this one-minute action right now: Scroll up and click the Buy button. Your music and your destiny deserve it! -Bob Here's a quick look at the contents: Section 1: Five-Minute Marketing Steps in the Real World - Fourteen Things You Can Do Locally in Your Home Town - Eighteen Things to Do Before, During and After Your Live Music Performances - Four Things You Can Do to Network and Strengthen Your People Connections - Six Things You Can Do When Songwriting or Recording New Music - Eight Things You Can Do to Get Publicity and Media Exposure - Nine Things You Can Do to Generate More Music Sales - Eight Things You Can Do to Find Inspiration and Get Educated - Eight Things You Can Do to Supercharge Your Planning and Productivity Section 2: Five-Minute Marketing Steps in the Digital and Online Realms - Seven Things You Can Do with Your Music Website - Four Things You Can Do If You Publish a Blog - Eight Things You Can Do to Brainstorm Content Marketing Ideas - Seventeen Things You Can Do with Twitter - Seven Things You Can Do on Your Facebook Fan Page - Eleven Things You Can Do on YouTube - Nine Things You Can Do on iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby - Thirteen More Social Media and Digital Music Action Steps You Can Take Final Thoughts Book excerpt from Guerrilla Music Marketing, Vol 1 Book excerpt from Guerrilla Music Marketing, Vol 2