Buy Now: Creative Marketing that Gets Customers to Respond to You and Your Product
The Juiceman Juicer, Sonicare Toothbrush, George Foreman Grill, and OxiClean are all brands that you remember. And you recognize them because of one man—Rick Cesari. For the past twenty-five years, Cesari has been behind some of the most pervasive and successful marketing campaigns in history. These campaigns took small budgets and savvy strategies and transformed products into household names and millions of dollars in profit.But this kind of success isn't solely due to celebrity spokesmen and catchy names. And it certainly isn't a matter of luck. The marketing principles that Cesari and his company have mastered have been formed through time-tested application, plenty of successes—and a few failures as well. And they faced the ultimate test in the face of the spectacular rise of new media: the Internet, YouTube, and social networking. Cesari shares how his company's flexibility and ingenuity adapted their strategies to perform in the new market arena—and brought a new era of growth and profitability to the organization.Buy Now lays out Cesari's strategies, showing how you can apply them to your marketing efforts. In addition to cutting out many of the traditional expenses in retail selling, such as supply chain expenses, and delivering better deals directly to the customer, direct-response techniques allow you to have a one-to-one relationship with your customer base, giving you better control over your image, your reputation, and your growth. You'll learn how to:Target a customer base that continually expands and growsCreate a USP, or Unique Selling Proposition, that pushes your product ahead of the competitionUse compelling messaging that speaks to the unique needs of your customersWith intelligent techniques, illustrative stories of how they work across a wide variety of media, and step-by-step strategies that develop customized marketing initiatives, Buy Now is the essential primer for creating a successful direct-response strategy for your business.