From the Inside Flap
The Juiceman Juicer, Sonicare Toothbrush, George Foreman Grill, and OxiClean are all brands that you remember. And you recognize them because of one man—Rick Cesari. For the past twenty-five years, Cesari has been behind a lot of of the most pervasive and successful selling campaigns in history. These campaigns took little budgets and savvy systems and transformed merchandise into household names and millions of dollars in profit.
But this kind of success isn't solely due to celebrity spokesmen and attentiongetting names. And it surely isn't a matter of luck. The merchandising principles that Cesari and his company have mastered have been formed through time-tested application, a great deal of successes—and a few failures as well. And they faced the extreme test in the face of the spectacular rise of new media: the Internet, YouTube, and social networking. Cesari shares how his company's flexibleness and ingenuity adapted their systems to carry out in the new market arena—and brought a new era of growth and profitability to the organization.
Buy Now lays out Cesari's strategies, showing how you may apply them to your merchandising efforts. In addition to cutting out a heap of of the traditionalisti disbursements in selling selling, such as supply chain expenses, and delivering better deals directly to the customer, direct-response proficiencies grant you to have a one-to-one kinship with your client base, giving you better control over your image, your reputation, and your growth. You'll learn how to:
Target a client base that continually elaborates and grows
Create a USP, or Unique Selling Proposition, that pushes your product in front of the competition
Use compelling messaging that speaks to the distinctive needs of your customers
With intellectual techniques, illustrative stories of how they work all over a wide potpourri of media, and step-by-step systems that fabricate customized retail initiatives, Buy Now is the necessary primer for creating a successful direct-response system for your business.
From the Back Cover"This is merely the best book I have ever read on direct response. After observing Rick exercise this art so with great success for assorted decades, I'm thrilled to know his secrets!"—Eric Yaverbaum bestselling author of Public Relations for Dummies and Chairman of Ericho Communications
"Building a business is made of innumerable decisions. The best one I made in building Back Joy into one of the quickest growing companies in the country was to work with Rick Cesari and Ron Lynch. Having the capacity to tap into their combined experience and expertness was a key factor in our success. If you want to with great success navigate the minefields that surround launching a new product or in building the sales of an existent one, you ought to not read this book. You must memorize it."—Bing Howenstein CEO of BackJoy Orthotics, LLC
"Rick Cesari was exceedingly essential in shaping my thinking with regards to our products, advertising strategies, and overall marketing. To this day, I gain from conversations Rick and I proceed to have in boardrooms, over the cell phone, or standing on freezing mountaintops in Washington State and Colorado."—Joel Appel former president of Orange Glo International, Inc., the makers of OxiClean, and President of FullBar LLC and Brainetics LLC
"One of the best conclusions we ever made at Rug Doctor was to collaborator with Cesari Direct. Rick, Ron, and their team in truth understand direct response marketing. They are not out to win awards. They are out to sellproduct—profitably. They not only invented a quality show we could be proud of, they produced a show that delivered aweinspiring results."—Tim Wall President and CEO of Rug Doctor, Inc.
"Cesari's method of direct demographic media messaging is the most innovative profitable advertising model, hands down. They have helped construct global buzz and real sales for GoPro cameras' explosive growth as an emergent brand." —Nick Woodman CEO of GoPro
About the AuthorRick Cesari was the firstborn person to use an infomercial to build a national brand name (Juiceman®) and then utilise the same scheme to launch a number of other merchandise and brands into the stratosphere: The Sonicare Toothbrush, the George Foreman Grill, OxiClean, and Orange Glo®, as well as Fortune 500 clients Microsoft and Clorox®. He is the founder and CEO of Cesari Direct, a full-service direct-response marketing agency that provides production, media buying, interactive, and crusade management services.
Ron Lynch has been the originative mind behind some successful direct-response campaigns including BackJoy® Orthotics, the Total Trolley, Light Relief®, the FlavorWave Oven®, and more. He has worked with Rick Cesari since 2001 and is presently collaborator and Creative Director of Cesari Direct. He specializes in strategic category creation, brand creation, and direct media messaging. Learn more at CesariDirect.com.
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