Addressing the Canny Investor

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The 10-Minute Marketer’s Secret Formula: A Shortcut to Extradordinary Profits Using Neighborhood Marketing
Tom Feltenstein
Entrepreneur Press
2445 McCabe Way, Suite 400, Irvine, CA 9264-6244
www.entrepreneurpress.com
ISBN: 1932531084, $19.95 US, 269 pages

When such a marketing behemoth as McDonald’s cuts their mass marketing budget by 1/3, then it is clear that mass marketing is one its way out. This example is one of many Feltenstein gives in his book to demonstrate that the age of mass marketing is over. What is in, is very targeted marketing to those nearest to your actual businessin short, your immediate neighborhood.

Feltenstein is a marketing consultant who has worked for many top companies, and he brings his extensive wisdom and teaching to this book. The book is very easy to read, and from page one delivers concise, usable information. No honest reader can read this book even for ten minutes and not come away with some useful tidbits to apply immediately.

There are twenty-five chapters and two appendices in this book. Each chapter is about some aspect of “neighborhood marketing,” and the first appendix contains twenty-seven forms that correspond to the marketing lessons from the book. In this way, the book functions almost as a workbook, providing theory (albeit very practical theory) in the main section and praxis in the appendix.

The thrust of Feltenstein’s message is that local businesses must think locally. This includes not just the immediate geographic “neighborhood,” but also their database and their actual, physical store. More damage can be done, Feltenstein cautions, by dirty floors and uninspired workers than by the absence of a mass marketing message. Businesses should make a plan that includes in-store merchandising and personnel training, local promotion (direct response mailings and cross-promotions with other local establishments), and data management (crunching numbers to see what works and what doesn’t).

I highly recommend this book for anyone in business, especially in small or home business. This book packs a punch on every page, and a marketer or business person could study this book for an entire year without exhausting its resources. My advice: Get a copy, read it once through, and then commit to reading a chapter each week. Take notes on your reading and convert those notes into goals and action steps. Follow through with your action steps, achieve your goals, and follow Feltenstein’s wisdom all the way to a more successful business.

Jeremy M. Hoover is a freelance book reviewer and proofreader. To request a review or his proofreading services, please email him at jeremyhoover AT gmail.com.

Jeremy can also help you promote your website or book. For more information, please go to his websites — http://jhooverwebcopy.com or http://jhooverwebcopy.com/bookmarketing.htm .

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Author: Adam Daniel Mezei
ISBN: 0595380697

As a loyal Canadian, I am delighted to see that within the last several years
there have been quite a few Canadian authors who are making their mark in the
international literary scene. Just looking over the undergraduate calendar of my
old alma mater, I noticed that there are now 7 courses devoted to Canadian
Literature, whereas when I attended University over 50 years ago there may have
been one or two. As a side note, when Canada’s famous poet, Irving Layton, who
recently passed away, was teaching in a Hebrew parochial school, he had been
dismissed, as he had the audacity to sell his risqué poetry books to his
students! This was back in the 1950s. How things have changed!

Today, Canada can boast many literary figures who have gained international
reputations as: Margaret Atwood, Hugh MacLennan, Mordechai Richler, Irving
Layton, Michael Ondaatje, and several others. Yes, Canada is alive and kicking
and still continues to produce some fine young authors, whom I am sure will be
shortly taking their place among their Canadian peers, as well as within the
ranks of many well-known international authors.

This brings me to a fine young author, screenwriter, and novelist, thirty-two
year old Adam Daniel Mezei, who is of Czech extraction, and now makes his home
in Vancouver, B.C. Drawing on his background as an incessant traveler that has
exposed him to many “delectable” cultures, Mezei has compiled a collection of
thirty short stories crafted within a period of thirty days all contained in We
Are The New Auroras. Mezei mentions in his Forward, “he wished to immortalize
the many things I had read about, heard, and seen with my very own eyes over
this eventful three decade-long period in my life.”

Mezei is a born story teller in every sense of the word. In succinct and
unencumbered prose he narrates tales about individuals, wherein some are
tragically flawed or are perhaps flawed due to political, social or economic
circumstances beyond their control. However, most of them endear themselves to
the reader, as Mezei captures their unique and sometimes mesmerizing
personalities, as well as the conflicts they endure.

Among Mezei’s gripping depictions is Bhimrao Yadav, a Dalit from Bangalore, India,
who on his way to work one day comes to the aid of an elderly man run over by
an errant rickshaw. As a result of being the Good Samaritan, Bhimrao was more
than sixty minutes late for work- something he never previously experienced.
When his superior questioned him as to why he was late, Bhimrao proceeded to
explain, and “to his shock and dismay the boss was unmoved,” resulting in his
being reprimanded for his tardiness. Apparently, Dalits are looked down upon in
Indian society and if they should succeed in gaining employment, they should be
grateful, according to the companies that hire them. Eventually, Bhimrao is
fired because he will not sign a form that will dock an hour from his pay
cheque.

We learn about Valeriy Branko, the drunk, whose only saving grace had been from
his books, and who strives to quit drinking Karel Handzak, the youngest mayor
of Prague, who was untouched by scandal and brings breath of fresh air the
gross and overweight Internet addict who falls in love with Sheila, whom he is
too frightened to meet for fear he will be rejected.

These are but a few glimpses of the many poignant powerful stories portraying
touching inner voices that produce a lasting lingering effect long after you put
the book down. Certainly worth a read!

Norm Goldman is the Editor of the Book Reviewing & Author Interviewing site http://www.bookpleasures.com Bookpleasures.com comprises over 30 international reviewers that come from all walks of life and that review all genre. Norm also offers an Express Review Service. You can find out more about this service by clicking on http://www.bookpleasures.com Norm is ranked among the top 1000 Amazon.com reviewers.

In addition, Norm is the editor of the travel site http://www.sketchandtravel.com Together with his artist wife Lily, the couple blend words with art focusing on romantic destinations.

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This is one of the few dedicated books that provide a complete inside picture of the makings of a great car manufacturing company, in this case - the BMW. A keen auto journalist, David portrays the complete canvass of the brand called BMW, the unceasing effort undertaken to make its cars distinctive, the clear focus of its brand identity with the affluent, its inseparable link of design to marketing as well as the disastrous consequences of the Rover deal acquisition. The book makes for compelling reading as the author gives all the inner details of the finer aspects of the car components and structure, the behind-the-scene corporate maneuvering, the ups and downs in the owner’s family, the heavy cost incurred due to the wrong decision on Rover deal acquisition and the poor response received to redesigning attempts. What makes the book interesting is that it never gets too technical to be boring but combines all the interesting details about the engineering and marketing philosophy of BMW along with the tumultuous history of the company.

In all a racy book worth reading not only for auto journalists, car manufacturers, and professionals, but even owners of the proud car, and any lay person wanting to know the complex road that the company traversed to produce its brand of highly exclusive and renowned cars.

About the Author:

Dr. Vj Mariaraj is a Mind Map enthusiast and has been using Mind Maps for the past twelve years. He has created over 5650 Mind Maps. To learn more about mind mapping send an email to freemindmap@aweber.com . He is the founder of BusinessBookMindMap.com that creates Mind Map Summaries of Business Books. To learn more visit http://BusinessBookMindMap.com/mind-map.php?eabr2

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