Posts Tagged ‘advertising’

Robert Solomon - The Art of Client Services: 58 Things Every Advertising & Marketing Professional Should Know

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

If you work with clients in any industry, The Art of Client Service is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.

Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills.

Now fully updated and revised, The Art of Client Service is geared to the entire account team — copy writers, art directors, and planners, researchers, media executives, support staff — anyone who works with clients. With brevity, levity, and clarity, Solomon recounts both successes and failures, and uses them to formulate fast-reading, actionable tips, including:

  • Know when to look it up; know when to make it up.
  • What happens when I screw up?
  • Respect what it takes to do great creative.
  • In a high-tech world, be low-tec.
  • Be brief, be bright, be gone.
  • How to write a letter of proposal
  • The Zen of PowerPoint.

You’ll also find new chapters on technology in advertising, the changing role of client service in an increasingly high-tech era, and an updated bibliography of essential reading.

 
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Christopher Vollmer - Always On: Advertising, Marketing, and Media in an Era of Consumer Control

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The Future is Now-Get Ready to Reap the Profits.
We stand at the beginning of a consumer-centric age-an era with potentially enormous returns for leaders in marketing, advertising and media-if they get their approach right. The new media environment is “always on,” digitally accessible to audiences from anywhere at any time, and responsive to their control. As consumers get used to this, the world of marketing is shifting to one of constant experimentation, fine-grained insight through new metrics, and continual innovation of the visible advertising message, as well as the changing business infrastructure beneath it.
The thought leaders at Booz & Company and strategy+business magazine have collaborated to create an up-to-the-minute exploration of this turbulent yet promising new digital era and its implications for corporate executives and marketing and advertising professionals. Giving you profiles of the best in the business and deep explorations of the most effective innovations and strategies in the marketing world, Always On introduces you to the companies that are reshaping the ways we will reach customers in the future.
Their secrets are in this book, including how to:

  • Match your messages to the right media
  • Learn the leading strategies of consumer-centric pioneers
  • Discover the lessons of laggard marketers
  • Explore viral marketing
  • Track advertising spending shifts
  • Capture emerging opportunities in a world of constant change
  • Master the new marketing metrics
  • Engage your customers on their terms

Figuring out the best mix of strategies for any brand requires experimentation, networking, innovation, analytics, and risk taking-qualities that have never been adequately nurtured in a marketer’s traditional career path. Always On puts you at the front of the race for successful innovation, with the latest successful approaches and techniques-essential competitive knowledge in a marketing and advertising world that never quits.

 
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