Does it feel like you’ve tried everything to market your book and you’re not selling the number you want? Have you read countless how-to articles and bought expensive courses promising a kick in sales? Most book marketing advice is imitation-based and rigid. It makes bold assumptions about your brand. And it might not align at all to your library, resources or career stage. The Book Marketing Audit distills what I’ve learned as a 15-year digital marketing veteran and 25-time-award-winning author to offer customizable, action-oriented advice. It will show you why your current marketing isn't working and teach you to stop copying tactics that can't work for your library--to focus on smart opportunities revealed by your own brand insights. The auditing mindset is what separates amateur marketers from professionals. Auditing exposes costly flaws and dangerous risks. It cares less about helping you fly faster down the track you’re already on and more about making sure you’re on the right track. It will improve your decision-making, place you in control, and salvage your sanity, your money, and your time.

This training program introduces you to conducting marketing audits.

"This book contains a 50 question checklist to get you started on performing a marketing audit for your company. If you don't know the answers to these questions, you are losing opportunities and customers!"--title page

This book offers practical, down-to-earth assistance to all marketing and sales managers. It guides the reader out of long-term, formal strategies and jargon to a comprehensive and straightforward analysis of how to get the most from the internal marketing audit.

Don't just wish for marketing results—get them! If marketing seems too commercial or too complex, or if your current efforts aren't delivering results, this book is for you. With this helpful guide, you can create a simple, usable marketing plan designed to get results! Since its first edition in 1990, the Marketing Workbook has helped thousands like you use marketing to reach the people you want to help—and attract the money and support your organization deserves. Now, this updated second edition offers an easy-to-follow five-step process to create an effective marketing plan; provides an expanded resources section including Internet examples; and includes ""web wisdom"" to help you set reasonable web goals, build an on-line reputation, and learn about the possibilities and pitfalls of web promotion. Use it to be sure you have the right services to meet people's needs; reach the audiences you want with a message that motivates people to respond; and make a strong impact in your community and beyond. This book will guide you through each stage of the marketing process. You'll learn how to link marketing with strategic planning, set goals and evaluate your success, conduct a marketing audit using the Six Ps of Marketing, position your organization in a unique niche, and develop a marketing plan and promotional campaign. Plus, you also get 27 proven promotional techniques, dozens of tips for writing and design, a sample marketing plan, a case study of how one nonprofit implemented their plan, and much more! Get the Marketing Workbook and start putting the power of marketing to work in your organization!