Business Week and New York Times best-selling author Harry Beckwith is one of the world's most innovative and respected marketing strategists. An acclaimed writer and popular speaker, he is the founder and director of a positioning and branding firm whose clients include Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, and State Farm. In this vital guide, Beckwith discusses the four keys necessary for successful marketing in the service industry--what he calls the "invisible touch." With real-life examples, he explains strategies for setting the correct price, creating a recognized brand, designing appealing packaging, and building lasting relationships with clients. No matter what size your business is or what type of product you offer, The Invisible Touch is a marketing strategy that will help you succeed. Narrator George Wilson clearly voices all the common-sense wisdom of this indispensable book.
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“Pick any page, and you’ll find insights that could make you a better teacher, a better salesperson, a better employee in any trade. Beckwith drives home the idea that we’re all in the business of marketing ourselves, and we’re in that business every waking hour.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review
“[Beckwith] is particularly good on the nature of marketing, showing what it can and cannot do.”
— Library Journal“In The Invisible Touch, [Beckwith] successfully draws the reader in with the well-honed prose and homey yet insightful stories he uses to support his claims.”
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Harry Beckwith heads Beckwith Partners, a marketing firm that advises more than twenty Fortune 200 clients and dozens of venture-capitalized start-ups on branding and positioning. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford, Beckwith is an internationally acclaimed speaker. His fourteen-year speaking career includes presentations to companies including General Motors, Target, and Microsoft. He is the bestselling author of five books, which, collectively, have been translated into twenty-three languages. He lives in Minneapolis.
George K. Wilson is a working actor in stage, film, television, and commercials with almost one hundred audiobook narrations to his credit. He began in broadcast journalism with American Forces Radio and Television and is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He had a lead role in the cult film classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and appeared on television’s One Life to Live, Ryan’s Hope, and The Doctors and has been heard on voice-overs for The Guiding Light and The Cosby Show, as well as many television and radio commercials.