Market Like You Mean It ― Engage Customers, Create Brand Believers, and Gain Fans for Everything You Sell

Consumers are exposed to as many as 5000 marketing messages via online, social media, and traditional marketing channels. Tapping the playbooks of successful product producers including Nike, Red Bull, Steve Jobs, Dr. Dre and others, successful marketer Al Lautenslager presents an entertaining look at what it takes to gain consumer buy-in and buzz across all marketing channels and reveals simple truths that any business can use to achieve the same, relative to their market. Embracing the simple truths provided, business owners master how to market to gain notice, be remembered, and get their ideal customers talking, sharing, liking, tweeting, AND buying.

Lautenslager shows entrepreneurs how to zero in on their marketing goals, choose the best marketing tactics, integrate online and traditional marketing, and more. Points are illustrated through entertaining examples and case studies of little-known and well-known marketing and media phenomena such as flash mobs, Rachel Ray, Justin Bieber, and GoDaddy.com.

Al Lautenslager is an award-winning marketing/PR consultant, direct mail promotion specialist, author, speaker and entrepreneur. The coauthor of Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days with Jay Conrad Levinson and the principal of Market For Profits, he lives in Naperville, IL.