Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Harry Beckwith

Jun 1999 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as:

• Greatness May Get You Nowhere
• Focus Groups Don'ts
• The More You Say, the Less People Hear &
• Seeing the Forest Around the Falling Trees.

About the author

While at Stanford University, Harry Beckwith won the national collegiate journalism award, was named Oregon Law Review Editor-in-Chief, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1972. He worked as a federal judicial clerk, a medical malpractice and personal injury trial attorney, legal counsel to the city of Portland, Oregon, and for an advertising agency. He currently works with twenty-three Fortune 500 companies and is a branding consultant. He has written numerous marketing books including Selling the Invisible, which was named one of the top ten business and management books of all time.