Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness

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Product Description
When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levinson revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business owner with his take-no-prisoners approach to finding clients. Based on hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson's philosophy has given birth to a new way of learning about market share and how to gain it. In this completely updated and expanded fourth edition, Levinson offers a new arsenal of weaponry for small-business success including

* strategies for marketing on the Internet (explaining when and precisely how to use it)

* tips for using new technology, such as podcasting and automated marketing

* programs for targeting prospects and cultivating repeat and referral business

* management lessons in the age of telecommuting and freelance employees

Guerrilla Marketing is the entrepreneur's marketing bible -- and the book every small-business owner should have on his or her shelf.

Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Pure Magnificence. July 17, 2007
20 out of 28 found this review helpful

Way back in the day, when I was about 23 years old, fresh out of college, and on the cusp of opening up my own business, I went to Barnes & Noble, browsed the stacks, and found a copy of a book called "Guerrilla Marketing". I decided to pick it up.

I'm glad I did; It changed my life.

Thanks to Jay Conrad Levinson's brilliant book, "Guerrilla Marketing" (and of course, a whole lot of hard work), I was able to take my idea, and turn it into a viable business.

How well does the Guerrilla Marketing method work?

Well, 6 years later, I am 29 years old, my coaching/management firm has clients across the country, in Canada, and even overseas, and I have even become a published author in my own right. Beyond that, I even ended up publishing a few books of my own. Oh, and would you believe it... using Jay's very own principles, I convinced Jay himself to write a book with ME! (Guerrilla Networking, 2008, Morgan James Publishing.)

If you run a small business, if you run a private practice, if you are anyone who hopes to become more successful (and yes, that includes my niche markets of the arts, acting, directing, producing, etc), then don't hesitate, and buy this book today.

This book is and always will be 'the original' and 'the standard'. Now, with this fourth edition, it is also the most relevant.

Meet you at the top!
-Monroe Mann
Founder, Unstoppable Artists, LLC
CEO, Loco Dawn Films, LLC
Lead Singer of the 7-piece ROMP band, 'Running for Famous'
New York City

1 out of 5 stars

Do not buy this April 11, 2008
18 out of 30 found this review helpful

Look on every other bookstore website. The review's are EXACTLY the same...word for word. I smell a skunk.

5 out of 5 stars

The Desk Reference For Small Business Success May 15, 2007
16 out of 18 found this review helpful

No matter what business you are in, Guerrilla Marketing is the first book you should reach for. Guerrilla Marketing taught me how to eliminate my competition by creating opportunities for collaboration and how to make it easy for people to do business with me. Guerrilla Marketing taught me how to use my imagination rather than my bank account, how to be flexible yet steadfast, how to be socially responsible (all the way to the bank), and how to... I could go on, but you get the point, just read the book and you'll understand.

Now with this newly updated, 4th edition, Jay surprised me with even more weapons to add to the arsenal. Even more ways to grow my business, take care of my employees and customers and how to have a personal life.

Thank you, Jay for updating our only Desk Reference for our successful business.

Now for more ways to achieve success and balance check out Jay's new book
The Guerrilla Entrepreneur: Achieving Success and Balance Now and in the Future

2 out of 5 stars

Not Exactly...... September 15, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

On page five, bullet point three: Mr. Levinson states, "Traditional marketing is geared toward big business.... The soul and spirit of guerrilla marketing - is small business: companies with big dreams and tiny budgets." However that was not my experience reading this book. Instead he seemed to promote laborious and expensive marketing tactics. I thought I was going to be reading a book about low / no-cost, surprise attacks, launched in the dead of night with no warning. Instead what I read was kind of stale, old school stuff.

For example; Chapter 3, The Sixteen Monumental Secrets of Guerrilla Marketing, starts with the sentence, "If you're a guerrilla, these sixteen secrets are not secret to you at all." OK, then why am I reading this book? Then the secrets end up being more general philosophy rather than tactics, such as commitment, investment, consistent, confident, patient, assortment, subsequent, etc., etc. In my opinion, he spent too much time making things rhyme and not enough into research into successful low / no-cost product launches or common themes and marketing techniques that sky-rocketed the success of the Zero to Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour companies. That's what I call a 600 pound Marketing GUERRILLA.

The chapter on MiniMedia Marketing was mildly interesting but nothing new as of the fall of 2007.

Then you have MaxiMedia and everything here costs some big bucks, sorry Jay I'll pass..

I'm not going to say that this book is without merit; it has good stuff in it if you haven't been in the sales and marketing business very long. It's a book that the novice can learn a good deal from, but more and more the younger aggressive person learns most of these things on the go and has picked up 90% of this stuff in a year or two in the business. If you are just starting or are unfamiliar with sales and marketing; then by all means get this book and dive in. However, the title Guerrilla Marketing implies something completely different to me than a book of general principles and tactics on the subject of marketing.

5 out of 5 stars

Completely Updated & Revised November 17, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

This 4th edition of the small business marketing classic is completely updated and revised as of 2007. The new edition is as relevant today as its original edition was over 20 years ago. The added e-marketing tips (advertising, blogs, podcasts, etc.) are accurate and useful. If you're a small business owner and have not read this book, you need to order it today. I just finished an MBA marketing class, and the theories that we studied are covered in Levinson's book in plain English--I wish I had read it before the semester began!

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