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Light Their Fire
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Light Their Fire

Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers

Susan M. Drake, Michelle J. Gulman and Sara M. Roberts
Kaplan Publishing, 2005

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8

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Recommendation

This basic manual teaches you how to encourage your employees to buy into your business strategy and brand before you begin selling to real-world customers. Internal marketing programs should be part of every company's operations. Authors Susan M. Drake, Michelle J. Gulman and Sara M. Roberts show that motivated, energetic employees are important assets; they can expand your business exponentially. Simply by fulfilling basic human desires for recognition, advancement, esteem and education, you can build tremendous employee loyalty. Written in a light, breezy style, which occasionally might have benefited from more detail, this book provides examples of companies that have instituted exceptional programs. getAbstract.com strongly recommends it to executives, small business owners, and human resource and department managers looking for strategies to energize their companies by using their most valuable resource: their people.

Take-Aways

  • Sell your company to employees first. Then, they can sell it to outside customers.
  • Build your internal brand with employees before you build your public brand.
  • Coke, Sony, McDonald's, Nike and Microsoft have programs that communicate brand information to employees.

About the Authors

Susan M. Drake is the founder and president of Spellbinders, Inc., an internal marketing and communications consultancy. She has written six other books, including Bottom Line Personnel and Personal Excellence. Michelle J. Gulman is a consultant who specializes in change management and internal marketing. Sara M. Roberts is the founder and president of Roberts Golden, a San Francisco consultancy that specializes in change management and internal marketing.

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