This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence - Terry O’Reilly

Written by Terry O’Reilly
Read by Terry O’Reilly
Format: MP3

Canada’s most famous adman spills a career’s worth of marketing secrets, so anyone can compete with the best in their business - whatever that business might be.

Big companies spend a fortune marketing their wares and services. Can yours? Invariably people ask advertising veteran and CBC Radio host Terry O’Reilly one question more than any other: How does a little business compete with the big guys? After decades at the helm of an award-winning advertising production company, and over a decade exploring the art and science of marketing for CBC Radio, O’Reilly delivers all the answers they - and anyone with something to sell - ever wanted to know.

Following his best-selling Age of Persuasion, O’Reilly collects a lifetime of marketing wisdom into an indispensable guide to competing for your customers’ attention. From understanding what business you’re really in and foregoing the extra mile in favour of the extra inch, to the benefits of counterintuitive thinking and knowing an opportunity when you see one, This I Know will help anyone understand the fundamentals of good marketing strategy and building the relationships that turn good marketing into great results, no matter how big or small your budget.

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Over the past 13 years on CBC Radio, Terry has covered countless marketing topics, from the origins of modern marketing to how the advertising industry invented the happy housewife. But embedded within those episodes are hundreds of insights and tips for effective marketing. Whether your company is new or old, whether you sell a product or a service, whether your organization is for-profit or non-for-profit,
This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under The Influence is a collection of marketing epiphanies to help companies outsmart their competitors, not outspend them. This is a book for all the small and medium-sized marketers who can’t afford a high-priced advertising agency.