Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell's books... I think I'm most inspired by his easily approachable writing style that exposes and explores big concepts in easily understood, and easily digestible terms, all while making sure the reader cracks a smile or a laugh at every page-turn.
I'm thrilled to have found another writer with that exact same style: Aaron Goldman. Goldman's book is a must for every early student of marketing, but even old dogs will find more than just a few new tricks here. Goldman has brought insights about Google's user approach that any humble webmaster or humble CMO (there aren't that many actually) can immediately begin to put into practice to correct their own confusing jumble of HTML madness. As marketers we try so hard to make sure that our users see everything we're about immediately upon arrival at our site, but the array of starbursts, auto-initiated audio & video, rich media silliness, and javascript fireworks only serves to complicate our message and leave the user even more bewildered about our value than when they first arrived.
Goldman articulates a simple model (one that easily fits into a lobe and a half of your frontal cortex) that will help you rarify and clarify your message so that consumers will finally "get" you. If you've struggled to divine the right words to sound your internal rallying cry, this book's for you. If you return to your company's website day after day and constantly wonder how to better array the information that's there, this book's for you. If you need a book to give your stuck-in-the-dark-ages CEO, this book's for you. It's not a "how-to book," however, so don't expect to improve your search rankings the moment you put the book down, but you will return to your desk with a renewed vision to strive for simplicity and clarity.
One of my favorite insights from Goldman's book is why Google makes the choices that they do in product development and release. I've read everything the WSJ has ever written about Google, but even I didn't consider the side benefits that Google realized by launching Google 411 and Google Voice. Apparently listening to accents and dialects from around the US and the world helps them improve their voice recognition software, and that to me is sheer genius. Look to the consumer to do your homework for you. The lesson here is that as a marketer you need to know what the secondary effect will be of any product you launch... how can you leverage the information you'll collect? Anyone with a website today needs to think about their strategy in accordance with the rules and guidelines Goldman has laid out.
You'll want to be sure you take full advantage of the [...] reader companion for a LOT more content. You'll find how-to info there, and a bunch of other soul-satisfying tips. Goldman lays out the theory and structure for Google-relevant marketing in the book, but walks you through step-by-step at the site.
This is a marketing text that every brand needs to consume to stay ahead.


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"Google is a once-in-a-generation company. Aaron Goldman has writtenan essential book that goes beyond telling us how Google became soimportant to explaining why the revolution it's leading will affecteveryone in media and marketing."—Brian Morrissey, Digital Editor, Adweek

"An insightful tour of the elements that have made Google successful combinedwith a usable guide on how to apply this learning to your business."—Rishad Tobaccowala , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Vivaki

About the Book

You know you've hit it big when your namebecomes a verb—and no one knows thatbetter than Google. In just over 10 years,Google has become the world's most valuablebrand, consistently dominating its category andgenerating $6 billion in revenue per quarter.

How does Google do it? In a word: marketing.

You may not think Google does much marketing.Indeed, it doesn't do a lot of what has traditionallybeen viewed as marketing. But in today's digitalworld, marketing has taken new shape—andGoogle is at the cutting edge.

In Everything I Know about Marketing I Learnedfrom Google, digital marketing expert AaronGoldman offers 20 powerful lessons straightfrom Google's playbook. Taking you deep intothe inner workings of the Googleplex (which aresimpler than you think), Goldman provides theknowledge and tools you need to build and growyour brand (which is also simpler than you think).

Along the way, he shows how Google's tacticsare being used by a wide range of successfulcorporations, from Apple to Zappos. Key principlesinclude:
Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds: Get the signalsyou need directly from your customers
Keep It Simple, Stupid: Craft messagespeople can grasp in a nanosecond andpass along
Don't Interrupt: Join the conversation—but avoid disrupting it
Act Like Content: Provide value, notsales pitches
Test Everything: Take no detail of your programfor granted; you can always improve
Show Off Your Assets: Distribute yourbrand everywhere

The beauty of it all is that these Googley lessonscan be applied to every aspect of marketing,in organizations of any size. Whether you run aPR department in a multinational corporation orserve as the sole marketer in a small business,these tactics work.

In its mission to "organize the world's information,"Google has rewritten the book onmarketing. Use Everything I Know about MarketingI Learned from Google to remake your ownorganization's marketing—and engage morecustomers than ever.

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