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Marketing Outrageously Redux

By Jon Spoelstra

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In this revised edition of Marketing Outrageously, Jon Spoelstra provides a real-world game plan for increasing your top line with marketing and promotion ideas that break through the clutter and get your customer's attention. His 17 Ground Rules―tested and proven―in sports and business, show how to differentiate yourself from your competitors. The focus is on measurable results that impact your bottom line―without big marketing and advertising budgets.

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“Marketing Outrageously is the cure for marketers' block. You can't but push the envelope after reading this book.”

Mark Cuban

Owner, Dallas Mavericks and Investor on Shark Tank

About this author

Jon Spoelstra has been general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers, president of the New Jersey Nets, and president of Mandalay Baseball Properties. Author of the non-fiction Ice to the Eskimos and Success is Just One Wish Away―and Red Chaser, a historical mystery, Jon is now a writer, speaker and consultant.

Book Excerpt

What's Outrageous About Outrageous?

You may now be wondering, “What does he mean by outrageous? And why would any responsible businessperson want to market outrageously?” It’s a good question, and one that deserves a thoughtful and detailed answer. That’s why I’m writing this book.

For the long answer, you need to read the whole book. This will give you plenty of good examples of outrageous marketing and the reasons it works, along with some useful pointers and guidelines about how to do it. And as you read and enjoy the book, you’ll find at the end of each chapter some questions that will remind you of what you’re learning. They are easy questions. They are no-brainer questions. They’re outrageous questions. You can look up most of the answers in the book. Some of the answers, however, aren’t in the book. You have to come up with them by applying the principles of Marketing Outrageously to your own business. You can skip them and go to the next chapter if you prefer. But if you read them and think about them, you’ll learn more about Marketing Outrageously.

Okay, for you impatient types who want an easy, if incomplete, short answer, I’ll give you several. Each is a partial answer that tells you something about Marketing Outrageously without giving away the whole thing—the way the seven legendary blind men described the elephant.

  • Marketing Outrageously is fun.
  • Marketing Outrageously is politically incorrect.
  • Marketing Outrageously is using your imagination.
  • Marketing Outrageously is being willing to be laughed at.
  • Marketing Outrageously is putting revenue first and everything else second.
  • Marketing Outrageously is dropping your assumptions and starting over with a fresh point of view.
  • Marketing Outrageously is the opposite of marketing safely—but it may be the only truly safe way to market.

Okay, I can hear you. You’re still asking, “What does he mean, ‘Marketing Outrageously’?” It’s time for another example.

Other books by this author

  • Ice to The Eskimos: How To Market a Product Nobody Wants
  • Success Is Just One Wish Away
  • Red Chaser

Book data

Marketing Outrageously Redux: How to Increase Your Revenue by Staggering Amounts by Jon Spoelstra

  • ISBN: 978-1885167736
  • The book was published on February 16, 2011.
  • Wall Street Journal bestseller
  • This hardcover edition has 272 pages.
  • Published by Bard Press.
  • Distributed by National Book Network.
  • The trim size is 6.1 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches.

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