Frenzy: 55 Big Marketing Ideas to Acquire Customers and Supercharge Your Sales
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Need help with your Marketing? Want to jumpstart your Sales and User Acquisition? Look no further than Frenzy: 55 Big Marketing Ideas to Acquire Customers and Supercharge Your Sales.
Frenzy provides insights into the marketing programs of some of the world's most successful companies, including eBay, TiVo, and Fujitsu. From Strategy, Branding, Online Marketing, Viral Marketing, Positioning, Promotions, and more, Frenzy covers it all in a straightforward manner that is clear and actionable.
"Many real-world examples that will benefit any marketer."
-Business Week
"A fantastic book packed with genius ideas you can use immediately to improve your marketing...Thomasen knows marketing inside and out."
-Silicon Valley Business Journal
"Frenzy provides many great examples of successful programs from the top brands in the world."
-Financial Times
"Don't waste another minute! Get this book and learn techniques that will accelerate your business."
-San Jose Mercury News
Included are the following 55 big marketing ideas:
Strategy
1. Copy the Dallas Cowboys
2. Cause a Riot
3. Focus
4. What is Marketing?
5. Reductionist's Nugget
6. Understand the Situation
7. Limit Choices
8. Outsource Everything
Market Research
9. Understand Your Margins
10. The Value of a Customer
11. I Hate Surveys
12. I Love Surveys
13. ROI is Almost Meaningless
14. The Truth about Testing
Brand Marketing
15. Tell Me a Story
16. Are Brands Important?
17. Swarm Them
18. Is There a Point?
19. How to Increase Mobile User Acquisition 2147%
20. Design Matters
21. How to Triple Traffic for No Extra Cost
22. Personas Place People with a Product
23. Acronyms
24. Learn from Vitamin Water
Positioning
25. Find Your Position
26. Reward Yourself
27. Inside Out
28. How to Triple Sales at a Major Computer Company
29. The Revitalization of TiVo
Promotions
30. Pay the Customer, Not the Media Company
31. Incentives Work
32. Keep Loyalty Programs Simple
33. Sweepstakes Work
34. Start Near the Finish Line
Viral Marketing
35. The 3 Ms of Viral Marketing
36. The Real Psychology of Viral Marketing
37. Hack Your Growth
Advertising
38. Give Me the Features
39. People Remember Images
40. Dramatic Visuals
41. Stopping Power
Online Marketing
42. The Best SEO Idea Ever
43. The Key to Retargeting
44. Alternative Keywords for Search
45. The Great SEM Lab
46. How Not to do Content Marketing
47. How to do Content Marketing
48. What's Important in Affiliate Marketing
49. The 20% Rule of Social Media Marketing
50. Does Email Matter?
51. Don't Stress Over CPM, CPC, and CPA
At the Workplace
52. Leverage the Knowledge of Others
53. Involve Everyone in Marketing
54. The Best Question You Can Ever Ask
55. How to Run an Effective Meeting
John Thomasen
John Thomasen is the author of John's Marketing Gems, John's Online Marketing Gems, and Frenzy: 55 Big Marketing Ideas to Acquire Customers and Supercharge Your Sales. Thomasen is a Silicon Valley marketing veteran who has launched highly-successful marketing programs at some of the biggest and best brands in the world, including eBay, TiVo, and Fujitsu, as well as various high-tech startups.
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Frenzy - John Thomasen
Many real-world examples that will benefit any marketer.
-Business Week
A fantastic book packed with genius ideas you can use immediately to improve your marketing…Thomasen knows Marketing inside and out.
-Silicon Valley Business Journal
Frenzy provides many great examples of successful programs from the top brands in the world.
-Financial Times
Don't waste another minute! Get this book and learn techniques that will accelerate your business.
-San Jose Mercury News
Frenzy
55 Big Marketing Ideas to Acquire Customers and Supercharge Your Sales
John Thomasen
Author of John's Marketing Gems and John's Online Marketing Gems
Published by John Thomasen at Smashwords
Copyright 2013 John Thomasen
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ISBN# 978-0-9720163-9-1
Contents
Introduction: Why Frenzy?
Strategy
Copy the Dallas Cowboys
Cause a Riot
Focus
What is Marketing?
Reductionist's Nugget
Understand the Situation
Limit Choices
Outsource Everything
Market Research
Understand Your Margins
The Value of a Customer
I Hate Surveys
I Love Surveys
ROI is Almost Meaningless
The Truth about Testing
Brand Marketing
Tell Me a Story
Are Brands Important?
Swarm Them
Is There a Point?
How I Increased Mobile User Acquisition 2147%
Design Matters
How I Tripled Traffic for No Extra Cost
Personas Place People with a Product
Acronyms
Learn from Vitamin Water
Positioning
Find Your Position
Reward Yourself
Inside Out
How I Tripled Sales at a Major Computer Company
How I Helped Revitalize TiVo
Promotions
Pay the Customer, Not the Media Company
Incentives Work
Keep Loyalty Programs Simple
Sweepstakes Work
Start Near the Finish Line
Viral Marketing
The 3 Ms of Viral Marketing
The Real Psychology of Viral Marketing
Hack Your Growth
Advertising
Give Me the Features
People Remember Images
Dramatic Visuals
Stopping Power
Online Marketing
My Best SEO Idea Ever
Retargeting
Alternative Keywords for Search
The Great SEM Lab
How Not to do Content Marketing
How to do Content Marketing
Affiliate Marketing
The 20% Rule of Social Media Marketing
Does Email Matter?
Don't Stress Over CPM, CPC, and CPA
At the Workplace
Leverage the Knowledge of Others
Involve Everyone in Marketing
The Best Question You Can Ever Ask
How to Run an Effective Meeting
Introduction: Why Frenzy?
You know those wild stories that pop up each year about what happens at retail stores on the day after Thanksgiving. The all-night camping, the broken windows, the fights in line, all in the hope of getting that flat screen television for $199, or securing that toy that will bring a smile to your child's face. (By the way, remember the Tickle Me Elmo
toy, and how parents went crazy to get that item. Now there are probably thousands of them stuffed in landfills across the country.)
Much of the conduct that takes place during this shopping period is reprehensible, and I certainly don't condone it, but from a marketing perspective, there is a lot of good work that goes in to creating such a frenzied shopping atmosphere.
I used to tell co-workers that I wanted to create a marketing campaign so good that it would cause a riot.
I wasn't interested in launching a campaign that a group of prospects might find simply compelling, but rather something that would cause people to lose their mind a little, go hysterical, and go out of their way to get whatever it was that we were promoting.
I jokingly suggested that if consumers came to our corporate headquarters and demanded to speak to the CEO because they did not get the offer being advertised, then we will know that we have succeeded.
Certainly I was being facetious with the riot part, as well as hoping people would come to our office, but the goal was absolutely to put something out there that would generate a frenzy at the very least.
I wanted to name this book Cause a Riot
because I feel that the Holy Grail of Marketing is to elicit this sort of euphoric, visceral response from a group of prospects. Also, metaphorically speaking, using a word such as riot
seems more compelling than using a standard marketing acronym such as AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action)
But ultimately I felt that such a title might be slightly insensitive, so I settled on the word Frenzy.
…
A marketer's dream is to have a product or service that is so great and so loved that you can just stand back and watch the customers pour in. The frenzy,
if you will, takes care of itself in these instances.
Think of In-N-Out Burger on the West Coast of the United States. It's an institution. I can't think of a time when I've driven past an In-N-Out restaurant and there hasn't been a line wrapping itself around the building. Or how about Apple, and the reaction that their customers have to new product introductions. You literally have to take a number to gain entrance to an Apple store in the Bay Area of California.
Unfortunately, we can't all be so lucky, and are forced to get very good with our marketing in order to sell our products and services. This book is for those marketers; those that need an injection of creativity and spark to go along with their skills.
Perhaps what you need is better messaging, better targeting, a more refined position, new visuals, a big promotion, or something else that will get prospects to notice who you are, like your products, and get them to take action and become customers. I lay out ideas for all of those topics in this book, because I have been in these situations often in my career.
I hope that you will find something in this book that will help take your business to the next level. Let's get started.
STRATEGY
Copy the Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys football team was dominant in the early 1990s, winning a few Super Bowls and creating a dynasty that few other teams have ever matched.
What made them so good? Was it their star-studded roster of Hall-of-Fame players? Was it their coaching? Did they have better facilities? Did the refs give them favorable calls?
I am sure all of these things contributed in one way or another to the success of the Dallas Cowboys, but the most important thing they did was execute their game plan, and in doing so out-executed their opponents.
The Cowboys did not outthink their competition-like so many in football feel must be done-and create numerous trick plays and intricate offensive and defensive schemes. No, the Cowboys had a very simple game plan. In fact, it can be said their offensive playbook consisted of only four plays: An Emmitt Smith run to the right, an Emmitt Smith run to the left, a slant pass to wide-receiver Michael Irvin, and a hook pass to tight-end Jay Novacek. That's it. Everyone in the stadium, including the opposing team, knew what the Cowboys were going to do, but they still could not stop them because Dallas was able to execute with near perfection.
I often bring up this story of the Dallas Cowboys to Marketers who insist on being overly-creative; who feel that execution is boring, and that the big idea
is in creation, not execution.
You do not need to have an amazing marketing plan, or a bunch of creative programs, channels, or messages to be an effective marketer. First of all, if you need to get that creative with what you are trying to sell, then