Build your career as a successful author with this proven, no-nonsense guide to marketing your own books. In today’s competitive publishing marketplace, the battle begins before a new book even hits the shelves. An author needs to deploy every weapon in their marketing arsenal to get ahead of the competition. Guerrilla Marketing for Writers is packed with proven insights and advice, it details a hundred “Classified secrets” that will help authors sell their work before and after it’s published. Having sold over twenty-one million of his own Guerilla Marketing books, Jay Conrad Levinson has mastered the art of connecting with readers and booksellers. Now he shares his practical low-cost and no-cost marketing techniques to help authors design their own powerful strategy for strengthening their proposals, promoting their books, and maximizing their sales.

Brand warfare is real. Guerrilla Marketing details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of information warfare, Guerrilla Marketing combines archival research and extensive fieldwork not just with the Colombian Ministry of Defense and former rebel communities, but also with political exiles in Sweden and peace negotiators in Havana. Throughout, Fattal deftly intertwines insights into the modern surveillance state, peace and conflict studies, and humanitarian interventions, on one hand, with critical engagements with marketing, consumer culture, and late capitalism on the other. The result is a powerful analysis of the intersection of conflict and consumerism in a world where governance is increasingly structured by brand ideology and wars sold as humanitarian interventions. Full of rich, unforgettable ethnographic stories, Guerrilla Marketing is a stunning and troubling analysis of the mediation of global conflict.

Provides more than one hundred practical ideas, action plans, and implementation steps to help businesses identify unconventional social media opportunities to increase online presence, attract customers, and improve profits.

Advertising is changing fast, in order to hold its own in an ever-changing media landscape. The traditional channels of TV, press and poster simply won't reach some target audiences. Instead, clients demand project-specific solutions involving social media networks, stunts in public places, street propaganda and more. This book showcases the varied and inventive tactics that are being used today by big-name brands, non-profit organizations and individuals to promote themselves, their ideas and their products. Projects include: giant afro combs stuck in topiaried shrubs to promote a play set in a barber shop; an inflatable pig wedged between two skinny Manhattan buildings to advertise dental floss; musical grooves in a road, only audible if you drive at the safe limit of 40 mph and street buskers launching a new Oasis album in New York. Over 70 international campaigns are featured, grouped according to their approach: Stunts, Street Propaganda, Sneaky Tactics, Site-specific campaigns and Multi-fronted attacks.

Marketing strategy for maximum return, for large & small businesses.

Designed to promote cost-effective advertising for the small business, this guide gives instruction in staying within budgets and developing an advertising strategy.

American business is in the midst of cataclysmic change. Corporate downsizing is increasing, causing disillusioned employees to establish home-based businesses. Using case studies, anecdotes, illustrations, and examples, the authors present their time-tested arsenal of tools most effective for this new, smaller startup.

2015 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Media Ecology Association 2013 Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association Amidst the profound upheavals in technology, economics, and culture that mark the contemporary moment, marketing strategies have multiplied, as brand messages creep ever deeper into our private lives. In Your Ad Here, an engaging and timely new book, Michael Serazio investigates the rise of “guerrilla marketing” as a way of understanding increasingly covert and interactive flows of commercial persuasion. Digging through a decade of trade press coverage and interviewing dozens of agency CEOs, brand managers, and creative directors, Serazio illuminates a diverse and fascinating set of campaign examples: from the America’s Army video game to Pabst Blue Ribbon’s “hipster hijack,” from buzz agent bloggers and tweeters to The Dark Knight’s “Why So Serious?” social labyrinth. Blending rigorous analysis with eye-opening reporting and lively prose, Your Ad Here reveals the changing ways that commercial culture is produced today. Serazio goes behind-the-scenes with symbolic creators to appreciate the professional logic informing their work, while giving readers a glimpse into this new breed of “hidden persuaders” optimized for 21st-century media content, social patterns, and digital platforms. Ultimately, this new form of marketing adds up to a subtle, sophisticated orchestration of consumer conduct and heralds a world of advertising that pretends to have nothing to sell.

Trusted advice on successful consulting from the authors of the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing series Consulting is entering the era of the guerrilla client-buyers with a glut of information at their fingertips and doubts about the value consultants add. Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants is the first book to reveal how guerrilla marketing can transform today's challenges into golden opportunities for winning profitable work from the new breed of consulting clients. Packed with information, this step-by-step guide details the 12 marketing secrets every consultant should know, the anatomy of a marketing plan, Web sites, sources of free publicity, direct-mail marketing, winning proposals, and more. Jay Conrad Levinson (San Rafael, CA) is the Chairman of the Board of Guerrilla Marketing International and the author or coauthor of more than 30 books, including the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing series. Michael W. McLaughlin (Mill Valley, CA) has been a partner with Deloitte Consulting since 1994.

Guerrilla Marketing’s Greatest Hits—Updated, Adapted, Remastered… The only book to deliver The Best of Guerrilla Marketing—a combination of the latest secrets, strategies, tactics, and tools from more than 35 top-selling Guerrilla Marketing books—updated for a new generation. ”When they write the history of marketing thought, Jay doesn't get a page... he gets his own chapter.” —Seth Godin, author of Poke the Box “This book is the culmination of Guerrilla Marketing’s huge footprint on the marketing landscape. Keep it on top of your desk-it will become your marketing bible.” —Jill Lublin, international speaker and author, Jilllublin.com ”For business survival in the 21st century, Guerrilla Marketing ranks right up there with food, water, shelter—and, of course, Internet access.“ —David Garfinkel, author of Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich “21 million entrepreneurs around the world, including me and most of my clients & friends, owe a debt of gratitude to Jay Conrad Levinson for his inspiring Guerrilla Marketing advice and mentoring.“ —Roger C. Parker, www.PublishedandProfitable.com “Guerrilla Marketing has always been about helping the ‘little guy’ market effectively and succeed against big-budget competitors. And now, in the new hyper-connected and hyper-competitive digital age, Guerrilla Marketing is again proving to be an essential key ingredient to help achieve business success. “ —Stuart Burkow, advisor on making money in business and advocate for free enterprise, www.kingofprofits.com “Jay Levinson wisely guided my partners and me as we built our company from zero to $60 million in six years – and sold it! His brilliant marketing know-how played a huge role in our dramatic success. “ —Steve Savage, president, Savage International “Guerrilla Marketing is far more than a brand. It has joined Xerox and Kleenex as part of our language.” —Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP, marketing coach, sales trainer and author “Jay's original Guerrilla Marketing validated all the marketing I'd been already doing, and opened my eyes to many new possibilities. Since that time, I've read many books in the series, and was thrilled to bring Guerrilla Marketing to the environmental world with Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green. Jay has proven over and over again that there's more to marketing than throwing a lot of money into ads, and that small businesses, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations can market effectively and inexpensively.” —Shel Horowitz, award-winning author, speaker, consultant, green/ethical marketing expert “Guerrilla Marketing Reigns Supreme as THE Source for Most Affordable and Effective Marketing...Ever!” —David Fagan, owner, The Icon Builder “In the marketing jungle the Guerrilla is king!” —David Perry, Perry-Martel International “Guerrilla Marketing is the Guerrilla Cream that rises to the Guerrilla Top. Those that use it, have used it and will use it get the view from the Top!! This book is one more ticket to your trip to your Guerrilla Top.” —Al Lautenslager, www.marketforprofits.com “Jay Conrad Levinson's Guerrilla Marketing series helped revolutionize marketing for the entrepreneurs who transformed small business into the powerful engine that drives economic growth in America. That his work keeps evolving but always stresses ethics, creativity, and technology with makes his achievement all the more valuable and remarkable.” —Michael Larsen, literary agent, Michael Larsen-Elizabeth Pomada Literary Agents Contributions from 35 Guerrilla hits, including: The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook Guerrilla Publicity Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days Guerrilla Marketing for Writers Guerrilla Social Media Marketing Guerrilla Marketing on the Internet Guerrilla Networking Guerrilla Negotiating Guerrilla Selling Guerrilla Public Speaking Guerrilla Multilevel Marketing Guerrilla Profits Guerrilla Financing Guerrilla Business Secrets Guerrilla Breakthrough Strategies Guerrilla Retailing Guerrilla Rainmaking Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits