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Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans
Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans

Peter Shankman · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Marketing and PR expert Peter Shankman has been working with the biggest companies in the world to create what he calls "Zombie Loyalists," fervent fans that help companies massively increase their customer base, brand awareness, and most importantly, revenue. After all, why should...
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Everyone's a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World
Everyone's a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World

Bill Tancer · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

More than of customers consult online reviews and take them very seriously A disgruntled customer on Yelp might have more clout than a guidebook magazine or newspaper This review-driven marketplace terrifies many businesses But some have learnt to navigate and profit from customer reviews...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations
Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersIn his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power,...
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FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation
FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation

Dan Ward · HarperBusiness
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

Noted military technology expert Dan Ward's manifesto for creating great products and projects using the methods of rapid innovation.Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience...
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Facebook Marketing For Dummies
Facebook Marketing For Dummies

John Haydon · For Dummies; 5 edition
Format: Print book

Practical Facebook marketing strategies, tactics, and techniques This new edition of Facebook Marketing For Dummies arms novice to expert marketers with everything they need to plan, refine, execute, and maintain a successful Facebook marketing campaign. Fully updated to cover the latest...
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

Sebastian Mallaby · Penguin Press
Pages: 781
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings...
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

David Sax · PublicAffairs
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

"The more advanced our digital technologies, the more we come to realize that reality rules. David Sax reassures us surviving members of team human that material existence is alive and well, and makes a compelling case for the reclamation of terra firma and all that comes with it. "...
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Cass R. Sunstein · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Why are group decisions so hard? Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groupsfirst in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person...
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil · Crown
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

"A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList."We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--...
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Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business
Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business

Christian Hageseth · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Marijuana legalization is the hottest story in the US today. 22 states have authorized sales in some form. Denver has more legal marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks franchises. And like the early days of gourmet coffee chains, the rules and players are being established on the fly. Christian...
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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of
Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of

Itamar Simonson · HarperCollins
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework - the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer decision making and marketing, and about developing more effective business strategies.How...
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Your Best Health Care Now: Get Doctor Discounts, Save With Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions
Your Best Health Care Now: Get Doctor Discounts, Save With Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions

Frank Lalli · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care - and how you, too, can get the best care for your money.Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines, has devoted his career...
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