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Marketing

This guide is designed to help students and faculty access credible resources related to the study of marketing.

Overview: Books

The Salt Lake Community College libraries have books in both physical and electronic formats available for use.  Titles are selected by a team of trained staff and librarians based on curricular needs.  Physical books are available at each of the four branches of the SLCC libraries. Books located at another branch can be placed on hold for pickup or to be sent to another SLCC library for convenience.

For detailed instructions on finding a book in the SLCC libraries, click here

Electronic books (eBooks) can be accessed anywhere with internet accessibility.  Some titles also allow you to check them out for offline access as well.

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Electronic Books

Notable Titles

Hidden in plain sight: How to create extraordinary products for tomorrow's customers

by Jan Chipchase and Simon Steinhardt

Call number: Redwood library HF5415.2 .C46 2013

Summary: Future-focused and provocative, Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers illuminates exactly what drives consumers to make the choices they do, and demonstrates how all types of businesses can learn to see--and capitalize upon--what is hidden in plain sight today to create businesses tomorrow.

Data-first marketing

by Janet Driscoll-Miller and Julia Lim

Call number: Available in ProQuest eBook Central

Summary: Digital transformation has created a widening gap between what the CEO and business expect marketing to do and what the CMO and the marketing organization actually deliver. The key to unlocking the true value of marketing is data – from actual buyer behavior to targeting info on social media platforms to marketing’s own campaign metrics. Data is the next big battlefield for not just marketers, but also for the business because the judicious application of data analytics will create competitive advantage in the Age of Analytics.

Made to stick: why some ideas survive and other die

by Chip Heath

Call number: Redwood library HM1033 .H43 2007

Summary: In Made to Stick , Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits.

 

Marketers Toolkit: The 10 strategies you need to succeed

by Richard Luecke

Call number: South library HF5415 .H24333 2006

Summary: Effective marketing can mean the difference between runaway successes and costly flops. Covering everything from customer programs to ad campaigns to sales promotions, this is every marketer's hands-on guide to turning opportunities into profits.
 

The art of digital marketing: The definitive guide to creating strategic, targeted, and measurable online campaigns

by Ian Dodson

Call number: Available through ProQuest eBook Central.

Summary: The premier guide to digital marketing that works, and a solid framework for success The Art of Digital Marketing is the comprehensive guide to cracking the digital marketing 'code,' and reaching, engaging, and serving the empowered consumer. Based on the industry's leading certification from the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI), this book presents an innovative methodology for successful digital marketing: start with the customer and work backwards. A campaign is only effective as it is reflective of the consumer's wants, needs, preferences, and inclinations; the DMI framework provides structured, implementable, iterative direction for getting it right every time. The heart of the framework is a three-step process called the 3i Principles: Initiate, Iterate, and Integrate. This simple idea translates into higher engagement, real customer interaction, and multichannel campaigns that extend even into traditional marketing channels.

Good business: the talk, fight, win way to change the world

by Bill Novelli

Call number: Redwood library HF5414 .N68 2021

Summary: An inspiring and practical look inside the mind of Bill Novelli, one of the founders of social marketing, Good Business challenges all of us to change the world for the better and is a blueprint for tackling today's critical issues.

From his humble beginnings selling soap in a sales training program to his rapid rise in the fast-paced New York advertising scene, Bill Novelli was well on his way to becoming a leader in the hypercompetitive business world. But it wasn't long before he became disillusioned with the drive for profits at any cost. He knew that his marketing skills made those companies successful, but what good did that success do for the world? That question sent him on a career path that involved taking the marketing and communication tactics long used by big businesses and applying them to social change. He found that this strategy was not only good for the world but also good for business.

For the culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be

by Marcus Collins

Call number: South library HF5415 .C5455 2023

Summary: In this illuminating book, the architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade reveals how our perspective can be influenced by culture.


In For the Culture , Marcus Collins argues that true cultural engagement is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior. If you want to get people to move, you must first understand the underlying cultural forces that make them tick.


Collins uses stories from his own work as an award-winning marketer--from spearheading digital strategy for Beyoncé, to working on Apple and Nike collaborations, to the successful launch of the Brooklyn Nets NBA team--to break down the ways in which culture influences behavior and how readers can do the same. With a deep perspective built on a century's worth of data, For the Culture gives readers the tools they need to inspire collective change by leveraging the cheat codes used by some of the biggest brands in the world.

Branding and AI: Leveraging technology to generate brand revenue

by Chahat Aggarwal

Call number: Available through ProQuest eBook Central.

Summary: Open the doors to the world of branding and artificial intelligence, the future of building efficient revenue! Unlike anything else out there, the book is an authentic and lucid representation of what branding is and the role it plays with artificial intelligence in the success of businesses. The book would be singularly profound to entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, brand strategists, students, and anyone aspiring to take a hungry bite out of the knowledge repository built from first-hand experiences of creating a brand from scratch and running it successfully in the digital age. Highlights: Explains in-depth theories, tools, and models explaining the core ingredients of creating a successful brand; Discusses how branding on an organizational and personal level is directly proportional to profit and return on investment along with measuring tools; Includes case studies that dissect successful and unsuccessful marketing strategies of huge brands; Covers the role of AI in branding, with its potential in facilitating companies in achieving their goals through targeted marketing.