Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
by Harry Beckwith
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Manufacturer: Hachette Audio
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.8
EAN: 9781570424717
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 1570424713
Label: Hachette Audio
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Studio: Hachette Audio
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Summary: Sell yourself as the perfect service to prospective employers!
Comment: `Selling The Invisible', by Harry Beckwith, teaches us how to increase our perceived value. In these modern times, marketing is even more relevant than the actually quality of a product when it comes to sales numbers. We only need to look at the music industry for a fine example of this fact.
One of the most difficult things to sell can be yourself. Even if you know what you are worth to an employer, do you know how to present this in an easily-digested way?
Beckwith shows us how to simplify access to our work, so people can see how valuable we are. He tells us to not just be the best at what we do, but change the definition of best! He tells us to execute with passion.
Knowing how to sell yourself and accurately demonstrate your worth as an employee is an excellent tool to have at hand as a jobseeker. This book has some very useful advice on one of today's most crucial skills to have, self-marketing.
Danny Iny
Author of the free eBook "Forget Everything You Know About Looking For a Job... And Actually Find One!"
HuntingToHired, www.HuntingToHired.com
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Summary: Selling the Invisible
Comment: This is one of the better books I have read. I purchased several additional copies to give to friends.
My purchase through Amazon was very good and I will use Amazon again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Know Where To Hammer
Comment: The excellent book Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith makes many great points about service marketing, including that a good solution today is better than a perfect solution tomorrow. A ready-fire-aim approach (implement first, then iterate to fix mistakes) is generally better than a ready-aim-fire approach (wait for the perfect solution, then implement). You've still got to aim. You've still got to fire. But you may need to reconsider the order.
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Summary: Drinking from a fire hose
Comment: Nutshell review - This little book has +/-200 tips and points about marketing in service businesses. These are presented in a collection of short stories or mini-chapters of a paragraph or two with a bullet point note at the end - a field guide indeed. It's a bit like drinking from a fire hose with almost too many points being made but if just a few points help your cause then it will have been a worthwhile read.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth the price for 1.5 pages rated below
Comment: It's a good read, but there is a page and half that has had a major impact, showing me where I have a huge blindspot in business and how I stop my own progress. This page and a half is possibly the most important material I've read in a book in several years (for me it applies directly).
The author talks about the Fallacy of Planning in a business setting. He ranks plans in this order:
1. Very Good
2. Good
3. Best
4. Fair
5. Poor
Why is Good ahead of Best? Simple, to arrive at Best takes orders of magnitude more planning than Good. Also, who defines Best? How much time is spent creating the Best plan? Will Best stand the test of time? Can everyone agree on Best? Would Good work just as well as Best in the real world? Is Best satisfying the client's need better than a Good plan?
Choosing the "Best" plan leads to Paralysis by Analysis. Good plans allow for quick action and constant improvement. The most successful people in the world have acted on Good plans that they have refined over time. An actionable plan is more successful than a plan that never leaves the drawing board!
Personally, I've fallen into the Best trap many times. There is no such thing as a "Best" plan. Going forward the "Best" plan will be the "Good" plan that I can put into action and refine over time!
A lightbulb went off in my head when I got this concept. Thank you Harry for this valuable lesson.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sell yourself as the perfect service to prospective employers!
Comment: `Selling The Invisible', by Harry Beckwith, teaches us how to increase our perceived value. In these modern times, marketing is even more relevant than the actually quality of a product when it comes to sales numbers. We only need to look at the music industry for a fine example of this fact.
One of the most difficult things to sell can be yourself. Even if you know what you are worth to an employer, do you know how to present this in an easily-digested way?
Beckwith shows us how to simplify access to our work, so people can see how valuable we are. He tells us to not just be the best at what we do, but change the definition of best! He tells us to execute with passion.
Knowing how to sell yourself and accurately demonstrate your worth as an employee is an excellent tool to have at hand as a jobseeker. This book has some very useful advice on one of today's most crucial skills to have, self-marketing.
Danny Iny
Author of the free eBook "Forget Everything You Know About Looking For a Job... And Actually Find One!"
HuntingToHired, www.HuntingToHired.com
Customer Rating:
Summary: Selling the Invisible
Comment: This is one of the better books I have read. I purchased several additional copies to give to friends.
My purchase through Amazon was very good and I will use Amazon again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Know Where To Hammer
Comment: The excellent book Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith makes many great points about service marketing, including that a good solution today is better than a perfect solution tomorrow. A ready-fire-aim approach (implement first, then iterate to fix mistakes) is generally better than a ready-aim-fire approach (wait for the perfect solution, then implement). You've still got to aim. You've still got to fire. But you may need to reconsider the order.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Drinking from a fire hose
Comment: Nutshell review - This little book has +/-200 tips and points about marketing in service businesses. These are presented in a collection of short stories or mini-chapters of a paragraph or two with a bullet point note at the end - a field guide indeed. It's a bit like drinking from a fire hose with almost too many points being made but if just a few points help your cause then it will have been a worthwhile read.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth the price for 1.5 pages rated below
Comment: It's a good read, but there is a page and half that has had a major impact, showing me where I have a huge blindspot in business and how I stop my own progress. This page and a half is possibly the most important material I've read in a book in several years (for me it applies directly).
The author talks about the Fallacy of Planning in a business setting. He ranks plans in this order:
1. Very Good
2. Good
3. Best
4. Fair
5. Poor
Why is Good ahead of Best? Simple, to arrive at Best takes orders of magnitude more planning than Good. Also, who defines Best? How much time is spent creating the Best plan? Will Best stand the test of time? Can everyone agree on Best? Would Good work just as well as Best in the real world? Is Best satisfying the client's need better than a Good plan?
Choosing the "Best" plan leads to Paralysis by Analysis. Good plans allow for quick action and constant improvement. The most successful people in the world have acted on Good plans that they have refined over time. An actionable plan is more successful than a plan that never leaves the drawing board!
Personally, I've fallen into the Best trap many times. There is no such thing as a "Best" plan. Going forward the "Best" plan will be the "Good" plan that I can put into action and refine over time!
A lightbulb went off in my head when I got this concept. Thank you Harry for this valuable lesson.
You have a unique marketing challenge. You can't touch, hear, or see your company's most important products - services. How do you sell them, develop them and make your business grow? Discover the secrets to Selling the Invisible in this first book to address the millions of people who work in "service economy." Harry Beckwith's 25 years of experience have resulted in this invaluable treasury of hundreds of quick, practical and easy-to-remember strategies which will help you to master this crucial branch of marketing.
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