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DO IT! MARKETING
You could buy just another boring business book. Or you could buy this book. Do It! Marketing will help you win more attention, leads, customers, clients, revenues, profits, fame, fortune, and happiness. But only if you implement Davids wealth of smart ideas waiting for you in these pages. My advice? Do it!
JIM KUKRAL, AUTHOR OF ATTENTION: THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU MONEY
Do It! Marketing gives you the attitude, strategies, tools, and game plan to market smarter, sell more, and become more successful the moment you start implementing Davids ideas. Dig into the sharply designed pages of Do It! Marketing , and youll discover a smarter, faster, easier marketing approach that will unleash your business true potential.
JOSE PALOMINO, AUTHOR OF VALUE PROP AND CEO OF VALUE PROP INTERACTIVE
Do It! Marketing is a complete system for effective marketing. It is a fun read, and the ideas, tactics, strategies, and exercises it provides will set you apart from your competition.
MARK SANBORN, AUTHOR OF THE FRED FACTOR AND YOU DONT NEED A TITLE TO BE A LEADER
Do It! Marketing is for every business owner, entrepreneur, and executive who wants more focus, more momentum, more clients, and more business. As David says, Only action creates results. Acting on the ideas in this book will help your business and career grow, and thrive.
JEFFREY HAYZLETT, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RUNNING THE GAUNTLET AND THE MIRROR TEST
Do It! Marketing contains equal parts inspiration, information, and implementation. Do what David shows you in this book, and your business will instantly begin to attract more clients, more money, and more success.
DR. JOE VITALE, AUTHOR OF THE ATTRACTOR FACTOR
Entrepreneurs need clear, action-oriented advice on growing a business, which is exactly what David delivers in Do It! Marketing.
--PAMELA SLIM, ESCAPEFROMCUBICLENATION.COM
In Do It! Marketing , David Newman focuses on a vital truth: It is better to get people to come to you than for you to go to them. More important, he shows you how to position yourself as a valuable resource so the market is magnetically attracted to doing business with you.
BOB BLY, AUTHOR OF THE COPYWRITERS HANDBOOK
Do It! Marketing is remarkably lacking in gimmicks, manipulation, and old school marketing tricks that stopped working years ago. THIS is the missing marketing manual for your rise to the top and your lasting business success. David Newman shows you the non-boring way to dominate.
DAVID SITEMAN GARLAND, HOST OF THE RISE TO THE TOP AND AUTHOR OF SMARTER, FASTER, CHEAPER
Dive right into Davids book, and get ready to collect terrific nuggets of golden marketing wisdom. Then, do yourself a huge favor, and take action. Apply many of them to your business, and experience some highly-profitable results.
BOB BURG, COAUTHOR OF THE GO-GIVER
Do you want to cut to the chase? Are you ready to finally make it happen for your business? Do It! Marketing shows you the fastest, most efficient and effective ways for you to reach higher, market smarter, and win bigger. David shares a goldmine of marketing ideas with high energy and bottom-line impact. You will absolutely benefit from this book. I guarantee it.
DAVID ROHLANDER, CEO MENTOR AND AUTHOR OF THE CEO CODE
If youre an entrepreneur, and hate marketing, this is the book you need to read. If you love marketing, you need to read it, too. David Newman has penned a highly practical, frequently provocative roadmap for anyone who wants to build their business. The book has an unyielding focus on lessons you can apply immediately, wrapped in Newmans unique, irreverent voice to keep it fun and engaging. If youre looking for some Ivy-League professors tome trumpeting the latest marketing fad, put this book down immediately. If youre committed to capturing more customers, stop reading testimonials, and buy Do It! Marketing now!
DAVID A. FIELDS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, THE ASCENDANT CONSORTIUM AND AUTHOR OF THE EXECUTIVES GUIDE TO CONSULTANTS
I love this book. Your business will be energized and transformed by it. Its the action orientation that makes Do It! Marketing so powerfulthat and the often brilliant and contrary insights that pop up everywhere. This book will get you moving, even if you think you cant move and have exhausted all possibilities. Its hard to represent in print the force of nature and wisdom that is David Newman. But this book does that better than I could have imagined. An old saw is that Its easy when you know how. With this book, youll begin to know howand youll be pushed to hard work and then ease by a master marketer and communicator. Everyone in business will benefit from this book, but it will change the lives of service business owners especially.
MICHAEL RAY, COAUTHOR OF CREATIVITY IN BUSINESS AND AUTHOR OF THE HIGHEST GOAL ; PROFESSOR OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION AND OF MARKETING, EMERITUS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DO IT! MARKETING
DO IT! MARKETING
Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition
DAVID NEWMAN
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DO IT! Marketing : 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition / David Newman.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-3286-0
ISBN-10: 0-8144-3286-7
1. Small business marketing. 2. Marketing--Management. 3. Marketing. I. Title.
HV4915.N49 2013
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2013 David Newman.
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