Marketing Without Advertising

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Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-01
Publisher(s): Nolo
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Summary

Offers small business owners marketing tips, including strategies for attracting new customers and turning dissatisfied customers into loyal supporters.

Table of Contents

Advertising: The Last Choice in Marketing
The Myth of Advertising's Effectiveness
3(5)
Why Customers Lured by Ads Are Often Not Loyal
8(1)
Why Dependence on Advertising Is Harmful
8(1)
Advertisers: Poor Company to Keep
9(5)
Honest Ads
14(1)
Branding
14(1)
Listings: ``Advertising'' That Works
15
Personal Recommendations: The First Choice in Marketing
Cost-Effectiveness
2(2)
Overcoming Established Buying Habits
4(1)
Basing Your Marketing Plan on Personal Recommendations
5(2)
When Not to Rely on Word of Mouth for Marketing
7
The Physical Appearance of Your Business
Conforming to Industry Norms
2(3)
Fantasy: A Growing Part of Retail Marketing
5(6)
Evaluating Your Business's Physical Appearance
11
Pricing
Straightforward and Easy-to-Understand Prices
2(1)
Complete Prices
3(3)
Giving Customers Reasonable Control Over the Price
6(3)
Internet Pricing
9
The Treatment of People Around You
Tracking Reputations via the Grapevine
2(1)
How Employees Spread the Word
3(3)
Common Employee Complaints
6(3)
Handling Employee Complaints
9(1)
Finding Out What Employees Are Thinking
10(3)
Suppliers
13(4)
Business Friends and Acquaintances
17(2)
Individuals Who Spread Negative Word of Mouth About Your Business
19(1)
Your Behavior in Public
20
Openness: The Basis of Trust
Financial Openness
3(2)
Physical Openness
5(2)
Openness in Management
7(1)
Openness With Information
8(3)
Openness With Ideas
11
Deciding How to Educate Potential Customers
What Does Your Business Do?
2(6)
Defining the Domains in Which Your Business Operates
8(3)
Providing Information on Businesses in Established Fields
11(3)
Businesses in New or Obscure Fields
14(3)
Whom to Educate
17
How to Let Customers Know Your Business Is Excellent
Tell Them Yourself
3(4)
Help Customers Judge for Themselves
7(10)
Giving Customers Authority for Your Claims
17
Helping Customers Find You
Finding Your Business
3(1)
Convenience of Access
4(3)
Signs
7(1)
Telephone Accessibility
8(5)
Listing Your Services Creatively and Widely
13(2)
Getting Referrals From People in Related Fields
15(2)
Trade Shows and Conferences
17
Customer Recourse
Elements of a Good Recourse Policy
4(1)
Designing a Good Recourse Policy
5(3)
Telling Customers About Your Recourse Policy
8(1)
Putting Your Recourse Policy in Writing
9
Marketing on the Internet
Business Uses of the Internet: Demystified
2(1)
The Geographic Reach of the Internet
3(3)
What to Put on Your Site
6(4)
Designing an Internet Site
10(3)
Interactivity and Customer Screening
13(2)
How to Help People Find You Online
15
Dynamic Interactive Marketing
The What and How of Databases
2(1)
Beginning Architecture
3(1)
Attracting Customers
4(1)
The Look and Feel of Your Site
5(1)
Pricing
6(2)
Openness
8(1)
Customer Education
9(1)
Security
10
Designing and Implementing Your Marketing Plan
Your Marketing List: The ``Who'' of Your Marketing Plan
2(1)
How to Evaluate Your List
3(2)
Marketing Actions and Events: The ``What'' of Your Marketing Plan
5(2)
Direct Marketing Actions
7(8)
Parallel Marketing Actions
15(6)
Peer-Based Marketing Actions
21
Creating a Calendar of Events
Marketing Calendar for an Interior Design Firm
2(2)
Marketing Calendar for Jerry and Jess's New Chiropractic Clinic
4
Appendix
Index

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