Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time

by Chris Murray

Overview

Indispensable summaries of the best marketing books of our time

Since 1978, Soundview Executive Book Summaries has offered its subscribers condensed versions of the best business books published each year. Focused, insightful, and practical, Soundview’s summaries have been acclaimed as the definitive selection service for the sophisticated business book reader.

Now Soundview is bringing together summaries of seventeen essential marketing classics in a single volume that include one all-new, previously unpublished summary. Here is just about everything you ever wanted to know about marketing. The Marketing Gurus distills thousands of pages of powerful insights into less than three hundred, making it an ideal resource for busy professionals and students.

Who are the gurus? They include:

   • Guy Kawasaki on How to Drive Your Competition Crazy
   • Geoffrey Moore on marketing high technology, in Crossing the Chasm.
   • Jack Trout on how companies can help their products stand above the crowd, in Differentiate or Die.
   • Regis McKenna on the changing role of the customer, in the classic Relationship Marketing.
   • Philip Kotler on the concept of Lateral Marketing, which helps companies avoid the trap of market fragmentation.
   • Seth Godin on how to create a Purple Cow that will take off through word of mouth.
   • Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned on marketing to women in Don’t Think Pink.

The collective wisdom contained in The Marketing Guru can help any marketer on his or her journey to becoming a marketing guru.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901591841059
Publisher:	Portfolio Hardcover
Publication date:	07/20/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Chris Murray is the former editor in chief of Soundview Executive Book Summaries, a subscription service that summarizes the best, more influential business books every year. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he currently writes and edits business books.
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Editorial Reviews

As the editor of Soundview Executive Book Summaries, which distills business books into 5,000-word recaps, Murray offers 17 such summaries of marketing books published in the last 15 years. It's arguably a narrow range for the best "of all time"-even with big names like Regis McKenna and Sergio Zyman on board. Each book summary begins with a quick summation, often making redundant the introductions written especially for the collection. And though the condensed versions manage to extract the key ideas from each text, some authors fare better than others. Faith Popcorn's unique voice survives compression, for example, much better than Seth Godin's does. The selected books are sequenced to suggest a broader argument that runs from connecting with customers to marketing in the 21st century, but the actual connections between the various works are largely unstated. Unless you're completely new to marketing research, chances are you've come across at least one of these books already, but Soundview's summaries are a good introduction for those with no background. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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