Marketing. Everyone knows it’s really hard to do well and marketers have
never been under so much pressure. More questions are being asked about value and
effectiveness than ever before. We live in a world of turbulence and flux. This book gives
you the tools and the motivation to deal with this change and to go out and be described
as a brilliant marketer.
Brilliant Marketing answers key questions such as:
• What is a brand? What is marketing and how is it changing? What is good,
what is poor, what is brilliant?
• How can I be creative enough to stand out? Creative like the Google logo.
Creative like Cadbury’s Gorilla.
• How do I write and manage a marketing plan?
Richard Hall is the author of Brilliant Presentation 1e and 2e,
Secrets of Success at Work, Brilliant Marketing and Brilliant Business Creativity. Richard
Hall spent his early career as a marketer at Reckitt’s, RHM and Corgi Toys before moving
into senior roles in the world of advertising at French Gold Abbott, FCO and finally, Euro
RSCG.
Richard Hall now runs his own consultancy, chairs Showcase Communications, Shaftesbury
Young People and the Friends of St. Nicholas.
He is married and lives in Brighton.
Table of Contents
Author's acknowledgements
Publisher's acknowledgements
Preface
part 1 Let’s get marketing into context – psychology, history and alchemy
1 introduction to marketing brilliance
2 have you got the right stuff to be a marketer?
3 the marketing battleground – past, present and future
4 on brands and brilliance – how do they work?
part 2 Ladies and gentlemen choose your weapons
5 advertising – the root of the great sales pitch
6 how to make advertising work
7 where to advertise so it reaches the people you want to reach
8 PR – just give them the facts
9 sponsorship – living close to excitement
10 design is it!
11 direct marketing – the world of measuring results
12 customer relations marketing – the people side of marketing
13 experiential marketing – using the senses to market yourself
14 buzz marketing – when everyone starts talking about you
15 digital marketing – nothing will be the same again
16 branded entertainment – when programmes and advertising join together (and other
wacky ideas)
part 3 Creating and executing a great marketing plan
17 the first steps in creating a marketing campaign
18 refining objectives, messages, mood and attitude
19 how to write a brilliant marketing plan
20 how to choose and manage suppliers, agencies and brilliant people
21 the ten ways to manage a marketing campaign
part 4 Strategy, creativity and the bigger picture
22 sorry – there’s been a budget cut
23 the art of creative thinking – turning brilliance into reality
24 how to run a brilliant marketing workshop
25 why research can be a rude word when you are trying to be brilliant
26 as of today, everything’s in play
part 5 Summary and highlights
27 summary and highlights
28 read and see
352 pages, Paperback