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A selection of books on marketing topics written by or relating to WPP people.


Title Author
All Consumers Are Not Created Equal All Consumers Are Not Created Equal NEW

This book demonstrates how to create a database of high-profit consumers and use it to generate a relationship-building direct marketing program. A previous Atticus winner, it introduces many of the ideas, now widely accepted, about segmenting customers by profitability.
Garth Hallberg
Public Opinion in a Globalised World Public Opinion in a Globalised World NEW

Written by leading political experts across the TNS global network, the book explores the importance of public opinion in informing politics in modern democracies and across our globalised economies. It reveals a rare international perspective on public opinion polling issues that are key to political decision makers.
Marita Carballo & Ulf Hjelmar
Rigorous Magic Rigorous Magic: Communication Ideas and their Application NEW

In the marketing world, communication ideas are revered for their magical ability to affect how consumers behave towards brands. Despite this, they are poorly understood. How many types are there? What are their characteristics? How should you use them? And what makes a good one? Most marketers simply cannot answer these questions.
Steve Hatch & Jim Taylor
Mobile Marketing Essentials Mobile Marketing Essentials, Strategy & Best Practices NEW

Mobile Marketing Essentials is a book for marketing managers, brand managers and their agencies. It helps you developing campaigns or manage both client and agency engagements.
Matthieu Vermeulen & Paul Amsellem
Action Planning Action Planning: How to Follow Up On Survey Results to Implement Improvement Strategies

For anyone who needs clarification on what action planning is and how to maximize its effectiveness, this is the perfect resource.
The Foresight Group
The Dictionary of Change The Dictionary of Change

Dictionary compiled by Bates 141 identifying new words and phrases that entered into common parlance during 2008.
Bates 141
The Global Brand The Global Brand: How to Create and Develop Lasting Brand Value in the World Market

In this thorough investigation of brand strength in the accelerated modern business world, Nigel Hollis draws on his experience at Millward Brown to present a simple formula for determining brand strength based on two axes, Presence (or familiarity) and Voltage (or marketing appeal), to illustrate the market value and performance of brands.
Nigel Hollis
Search Engine Marketing Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site

In this book, two world-class experts present today's best practices, step-by-step techniques, and hard-won tips for using search engine marketing to achieve your sales and marketing goals, whatever they are. Mike Moran and Bill Hunt thoroughly cover both the business and technical aspects of contemporary search engine marketing, walking beginners through all the basics while providing reliable, up-to-the-minute insights for experienced professionals.
Bill Hunt and Mike Moran
Strategic Database Marketing Strategic Database Marketing

Strategic Database Marketing details the latest web-focused strategies for unleashing the power in your company's customer database and turning it into a sales-building weapon.
Arthur Middleton Hughes
Brand Bubble The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It

Your company's stock price depends on the value of your brand. So if consumers aren't valuing it as much as financial markets, the future of your company could be in for big trouble. You could be the victim of a "brand bubble." Customer surveys show that the number of high-performance value-creating brands is diminishing across the board. Yet at the same time, businesses and financial markets keep raising brand valuations. The result? A brand bubble that could erase large portions of intangible value in your company and send another shockwave through the global economy.
John Gerzema and Ed LeBar, 2008
Brand Digital BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World

In his best-selling book, BrandSimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed, Allen Adamson explained, in a straightforward manner, how powerful brands get built. Adopting the same engaging style in BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World, he explains that in the fast accelerating digital marketplace the basic principles of building a powerful brand have not changed (as some may think) but, rather, have been magnified. He clearly demonstrates that in an environment where everything is visible, audible, and sharable, brand professionals have an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about their customers than ever before, making it possible to deliver experiences that reinforce customer relationships - and brand equity - more successfully than ever before.
Allen P. Adamson, 2008
Enterprise 2.0 ENTERPRISE 2.0: How Social Software Will Change the Future of Work

Enterprise 2.0 is one of the first books to explain the impact that social software will have inside the corporate firewall, and ultimately how staff will work together in the future. Niall Cook helps you navigate this emerging landscape and introduces the key concepts that make up 'Enterprise 2.0'. The 4Cs model at the heart of the book uses practical examples from well known companies in a range of industry sectors to illustrate how to apply Enterprise 2.0 to encourage communication, cooperation, collaboration and connection between employees and customers in your own company.
Niall Cook, 2008
Chinas Creative Imperative China's Creative Imperative: How Creativity is Transforming Society and Business in China

Based on interviews with a wide range of creators - designers, musicians, folk artists, painters, discussions with common people about the role that creativity played in their seemingly mundane lives, and extensive trawling of the popular culture scene in China, China's Creative Imperative provides rich evidence and a provocative point-of-view that businesses should find hard to ignore. While the subject matter of this undertaking is as vast and diverse as the idea of creativity itself, Sinha and his team discovered several trends in modern Chinese creativity, along with key insights valuable to any business hoping to grow in China.
Kunal Sinha, 2008
Personality Not Included PERSONALITY NOT INCLUDED: Why Companies Lose Authenticity and How Great Brands Get it Back

In his new book, PERSONALITY NOT INCLUDED, marketing expert, award winning blogger and social media guru Rohit Bhargava explains how faceless companies do not work in today's environment. In a world where consumers have more access to information than ever, and more power to share their voice, a brand's identity is no longer controlled through marketing and advertising. In this new era, what you demonstrate to your customers matters most. This is the power of your personality.
Rohit Bhargava, 2008
Customer Churn Reduction and Retention for Telecoms Customer Churn Reduction and Retention for Telecoms: Models for All Marketers

Industry expert Arthur Middleton Hughes explains what Telecom enterprises can do to continue to exist. Their salvation rests not in their technologies, Hughes explains, but in their marketing strategies.
Arthur Middleton Hughes, 2007
Brand with Power A Brand with Power: Fuelling Success in the Energy Market

Deregulation is causing the utilities market to change across much of the globe. In the free market, state-owned monopolies have been replaced by an array of companies selling gas, electricity and water. From dusty monopoly to Danish Energy giant, this book explores how DONG shook off its outdated image and completely transformed itself into an innovative and dynamic company with a strong brand.
Lars Kaa Andersen, 2008
DigiMarketing DigiMarketing: The Essential Guide to New Media and Digital Marketing

Developments in media and digital technology have spawned a new era in marketing.DigiMarketing: The Essential Guide to New Media & Digital Marketing provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the major digital channels being used, including explanations of the key trends in mobile marketing, blogging, games, digital media, digital point-of-sale, Web 2.0, and consumer created content.
Kent Wertime & Ian Fenwick, 2008
Greater Good Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy

Marketing has a greater purpose, and marketers, a higher calling, than simply selling more widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In Greater Good, the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function--and does so democratically. They maintain that people would benefit if the realms of politics and marketing were informed by one another's best principles and practices.
John Quelch & Katherine Jocz, 2008
Web Analytics Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions

Getting ROI from the web is everyone's job. Right now someone is clicking on your website, and knowing everything you can about those clicks and the people that make them is a business imperative. That's the first of a set of compelling business lessons distilled from the authors' decade of experience with the world's most powerful online brands. These lessons help executives, marketers, web managers, designers, and developers take action based on the actual behavior of site visitors.
Jason Burby & Shane Atchison, 2007
Microtrends Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes

Bill Gates, Tony Blair and President Clinton are among those who have listened closely to Mark Penn's analysis. In Microtrends, you'll understand why so many influential leaders have sought Mark Penn's counsel. Mark Penn highlights everything from religion to politics, from leisure pursuits to relationships. Microtrends will take the reader deep into the worlds of polling, targeting, and psychographic analysis, reaching tantalizing conclusions through engaging analysis.
Mark Penn & E. Kinney Zalesne, 2007
Going Abroad Get Ahead by Going Abroad: A Woman's Guide to Fast-Track Career Success

A ground-breaking book that highlights a growing trend among successful, globe-trotting women. Working abroad can fast-track your career, broaden your professional capabilities, increase your pay and expand your personal horizons.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, C. Perry Yeatman, 2007
Brand Simple BrandSimple

Drawing on years of experience with some of the world's top brands, Allen Adamson argues for a return to the basics of good branding and shows how to simply and effectively communicate your brand's message
Allen P. Adamson, 2006
Apple, Insights and Mad Inventors Apples, Insights and Mad Inventors: An Entertaining Analysis of Modern Marketing

A collection of thought-provoking observations on marketing issues from client management and brand management to strategy and product development. Essential reading for any communications professional
Jeremy Bullmore, 2006
Space Race Space Race

What is communications planning? Where is it going? Who will own it? How will it change things? Planner Jim Taylor sets out to define the structure of tomorrow's agencies by interviewing the leading lights of the industry today
Jim Taylor, 2005
Billions Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer

Doctoroff delves into the contemporary Chinese consumer psyche to explain buying decisions; provides tools to help harness insights into consumers' fundamental motivations and reveals the pitfalls into which many multinationals fail
Tom Doctoroff, 2005
Brands and Gaming Brands & Gaming

Added Value marketers on how brands and businesses can understand and harness computer gaming, the huge opportunities available and the unique rules of engagement required
David Nichols, Tom Farrand, Tom Rowley, Matt Avery, 2005
One Billion Customers One Billion Customers

Ogilvy Public Relations advisor and former Wall Street Journal China bureau chief McGregor on the lessons from the front line of doing business in China. Includes case studies of successful, and unsuccessful, ventures
James McGregor, 2005
Pick Me Pick Me

Ogilvy & Mather Toronto co-creative chiefs on how to land a job in advertising and thrive once you're in. Fourteen industry luminaries share their insights.
Janet Kestin, Nancy Vonk, 2005
The Future of Men The Future of Men

Charts the evolution of the role of men and what it means for business and culture, arguing that the new definition of male will revolutionise how we define and reach the 'new' male market
Marian Salzman, 2005
Holy Grail Sponsorship's Holy Grail

Employs Six Sigma quality improvement programme to enable organisations to understand, conduct and monitor sponsorship activities in line with specific business goals
Raymond Bednar, 2005
Advertised Mind The Advertised Mind

Draws on information about the working of the human brain to suggest why emotion is so important a factor in remembering an advertisement and pre-disposing consumers to buy brands
Erik du Plessis, 2005
Brand Sense BRANDsense

Employs Millward Brown research to explore the effects of leveraging all five of the senses - touch, taste, smell, sight and sound - when building brands
Martin Lindstrom, Millward Brown, 2004
Business of Brands The Business of Brands

Outlines how brands are a source of value for businesses in terms of shareholder value through revenue generation and as a management tool - and for consumers, as a source of trust or predictor of quality
Jon Miller, David Muir, 2004
Being Direct Being Direct: Making Advertising Pay

In his own words, how 'the pioneering father of direct marketing' did it. With a groundbreaking final chapter on marketing in the 'post-present' and a new chapter on the impact of the Internet
Lester Wunderman, 2004
More Bull More More Bull More

A collection of 70 short essays covering the marketing gamut, from advertising and brands to the people they are aimed at
Jeremy Bullmore, 2003
The 360 Brand In Asia The 360 Degree Brand in Asia

With case studies on IBM, American Express, Pond's Institute, Nestle, amongst others, the authors set out a framework by which companies can plan their marketing strategy and budgets as they globalise
Mark Blair, Richard Armstrong, Mike Murphy, 2003
Truth, Lies and Advertising Truth, Lies & Advertising

Describes how successful account planners work in partnership with clients, consumers and agency creatives. Argues that well-thought-out account planning results in better, more effective marketing and advertising
Jon Steel, 1998
Ogilvy On Advertising Ogilvy On Advertising

The timeless reference on what works to create great brands, effective campaigns that make the cash register ring, and a productive agency environment. David Ogilvy pulls no punches, and his advice is priceless.
David Ogilvy, 1985




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