(The English review is placed beneath the Russian one)
Эта книга появляется почти в каждом списке рекомендованной литературе по маркетингу, при том, что ничего нового читатель не найдёт в книге т.к. всё сводится либо к базовым вещам из мира маркетинга, о чём можно прочитать в любом современном университетском учебнике по маркетингу либо к здравому смыслу (простой сообразительности). С этой точки зрения книга напоминает большой блог, в котором даётся облегчённая информация по основам маркетинга. Да, если читатель до этой книги не был знаком с основами маркетинга, то в таком случаи книга его может впечатлить, но для всех остальных книга станет обычном пересказом основ маркетинга. Давайте пройдёмся по нескольким идеям, что предлагает автор.
She measured the effectiveness of all her marketing, asking people where they first heard of her. In this way, she was able to eliminate the weapons and newspapers that weren't pulling their weight, and she doubled those that gave her the biggest bang for her bucks.
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Begin the process of selecting marketing methods by identifying your target audience. Just as it's better to know something about your spouse than everything about marriage, the better you understand your prospects, the easier it will be to attain accuracy with your marketing plans.
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Don't forget: Consistency is one of the most important factors in marketing. You can achieve that consistency with small ads as well as large ones. The size of your ad does not produce the consumer confidence that consistency does—a truth that will save you impressive sums.
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Therefore, when running print ads, especially newspaper ads, it is usually silly to save money on production by having the newspaper or other medium design your ads. Instead, hire a professional to do this.
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Before you commit yourself to a campaign, experiment and test. Test your idea in a mailing, a chat room, a Web site survey, an inexpensive newspaper. Run the same ad in five local papers to see which paper evokes the greatest response; then run five different ads in that paper to see which is most successful. Pray that you don't get a five-way tie! Mail the same e-mail to five different lists and see which is most receptive to your offer. Then send five kinds of e-mail letters to your winning list to learn which one generates the greatest response for you.
Как видим, всё это является базовой информацией, которую можно найти в любом учебнике по маркетингу. Единственное различие состоит в том, что советы, что даёт автор, ориентированы на средний и малый бизнес, т.е. книга показывает, как классический маркетинг по Котлеру может быть реализован в малом и среднем бизнесе. Однако те читатели, кто читал знаменитую книгу Котлера «Маркетинг Менеджмент» понимают это и без этой книги. Единственный момент, где автор предложил действительно что-то не такое базовое, это проблема вампиризма в рекламе, о чём учебники по маркетингу действительно не пишут или пишут крайне редко.
Guerrillas are also very careful to avoid vampire marketing, which sucks attention away from their primary message. Viewers remember the special effects but not the advertiser. It's the funny joke that people recall as they forget who paid to tell it.
В остальном же книга не плохая скорее в качестве некого варианта блога либо как популярная литература по маркетингу для читателей, которые ничего о маркетинге до этой книги не знали. Профессионалам эта книга вряд ли пригодится.
This book appears on almost every list of recommended marketing literature, even though readers will find nothing new in it, as it boils down to either basic marketing concepts, which can be found in any modern university marketing textbook, or common sense. From this point of view, the book resembles a large blog that provides simplified information on the basics of marketing. Yes, if the reader was not familiar with the basics of marketing before reading this book, then in this case, the book may impress them, but for everyone else, the book will be a routine retelling of the basics of marketing. Let's go through a few ideas that the author suggests.
She measured the effectiveness of all her marketing, asking people where they first heard of her. In this way, she was able to eliminate the weapons and newspapers that weren't pulling their weight, and she doubled those that gave her the biggest bang for her bucks.
<…>
Begin the process of selecting marketing methods by identifying your target audience. Just as it's better to know something about your spouse than everything about marriage, the better you understand your prospects, the easier it will be to attain accuracy with your marketing plans.
<…>
Don't forget: Consistency is one of the most important factors in marketing. You can achieve that consistency with small ads as well as large ones. The size of your ad does not produce the consumer confidence that consistency does—a truth that will save you impressive sums.
<…>
Therefore, when running print ads, especially newspaper ads, it is usually silly to save money on production by having the newspaper or other medium design your ads. Instead, hire a professional to do this.
<…>
Before you commit yourself to a campaign, experiment and test. Test your idea in a mailing, a chat room, a Web site survey, an inexpensive newspaper. Run the same ad in five local papers to see which paper evokes the greatest response; then run five different ads in that paper to see which is most successful. Pray that you don't get a five-way tie! Mail the same e-mail to five different lists and see which is most receptive to your offer. Then send five kinds of e-mail letters to your winning list to learn which one generates the greatest response for you.
As we can see, all of this is basic information that can be found in any marketing textbook. The only difference is that the advice given by the author is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, i.e., the book shows how Kotler's classic marketing can be implemented in small and medium-sized businesses. However, readers who have read Kotler's famous book Marketing Management understand this without this book. The only point where the author offered something truly non-basic is the problem of vampirism in advertising, which marketing textbooks do not really write about or write about extremely rarely.
Guerrillas are also very careful to avoid vampire marketing, which sucks attention away from their primary message. Viewers remember the special effects but not the advertiser. It's the funny joke that people recall as they forget who paid to tell it.
Otherwise, the book is not bad, more like a kind of blog or popular marketing literature for readers who know nothing about marketing before reading it. This book is unlikely to be useful to professionals.