Product Description

This book will guide marketers into the world of positioning and selling products and services. The authors lead the reader step by step through the process of developing a marketing campaign. They offer detailed descriptions of more than a hundred marketing tools from contests to affinity programs, from direct mail to billboard advertising. Anecdotes, graphics, and rules of thumb are also included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50595 in Books
• Published on: 1994-11-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 396 pages

From Booklist
Levinson and Godin collaborate to produce an irreverent handbook on marketing a product or service. Unlike their preceding publications, this focuses on details: for instance, business cards and their uses, case histories of direct-mail postcards, and ideas about publicity, pricing, and logos. Each of the six major chapters--on advertising, minimedia, targeted media, promotion, telephone, and nonmedia--features from 4 to 14 or so techniques, including lists, common mistakes, definitions, examples, and glossaries. A breezy style highlighted by real-life success examples invites all readers to believe that they, too, can become guerrilla marketing gurus. Barbara Jacobs

About the Author
Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of more than a dozen books in the Guerrilla Marketing series. A former vice president and creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising and Leo Burnett Advertising, he is the chairman of Guerrilla Marketing International, a consulting firm serving large and small businesses worldwide.

Customer Reviews

this is NOT true guerilla marketing
The authors' use of the term "guerilla marketing" is completely inaccurate. This book is about TRADITIONAL media -- guerilla marketing is the complete opposite. It was also written in 1994, before the advent of the commercialized Internet, so it's a very very very old school approach to advertising. It has some good information about traditional advertising for small businesses, but most of the reference information is way out of date. If you're looking for subversive, alternative approaches to marketing, read "Under The Radar" by Bond & Kirshenbaum instead.

Timeless tactics for small businesses
The beauty of this book is that most of the tactics inside it are as relevant and useful today as they were 20 years ago. I first got this book when my professor (a highly succesful multi-millionaire) recommended it to me. He said it was as good as any Marketing degree. Well I have my Marketing degree and would have to agree with him. The best promotional campaign is the one that costs the least but gets the most results. That is what you have here. This is especially helpful for small niche businesses. Those types of businesses can really take advantage of this book.

It is admittedly weak on the web side of things but I have never really found that to be a very useful avenue for anyone but the major players that can afford to buy costly advertising. No this is for small businesses that do most of their deals face to face.

Easy money
This book is great. It's easy enough to follow for the complete layman but inciteful enough for the experienced entrepreneur. I would recomend this book to anyone with a business of their own or just a passion for sales and marketing.