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PyroMarketing: The Four-Step Strategy to Ignite Customer Evangelists and Keep Them for Life [Hardcover]

Greg Stielstra (Author)
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September 27, 2005

The era of mass marketing is ending—replaced by the power of customer evangelists unleashed through a systematic approach to word-of-mouth called PyroMarketing. Learn how the system that sparked a revolution in the Christian marketplace can fuel the success of your business.

Word-of-mouth is the biggest influence on consumer purchases and its influence is growing. How do you tap its power?

The key is not some new technology or advertising fad. The best way to understand the marketing process, the way messages are sent, received, acted upon, and spread, is to think of fire. PyroMarketing simplifies word-of-mouth to a four-step system that optimizes your advertising dollars by targeting the right customers and then converting them into unpaid sales and marketing evangelists.

Tapping the latest research into the brain and human behavior, Greg Stielstra demonstrates how traditional marketing techniques are expensive, obsolete, and doomed to failure—while PyroMarketing principles deliver powerful results over the long-term and for less money. Illustrated with case studies including The Purpose-Driven Life, one of the bestselling books of all time, and the breakaway phenomenon The Passion of the Christ, PyroMarketing is a comprehensive strategy that can help any business reach and retain new markets.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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About the Author

During fifteen years in marketing for Zondervan and Thomas Nelson publishers, Greg Stielstra oversaw marketing for numerous bestsellers, including The Purpose-Driven Life. He currently works as EVP and Director of Integrated Delivery for The Buntin Group. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife, Amy, and their three children.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperBusiness (September 27, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060776706
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060776701
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,379,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stop wasting marketing money, October 11, 2005
This review is from: PyroMarketing: The Four-Step Strategy to Ignite Customer Evangelists and Keep Them for Life (Hardcover)
A 20th century retailer named John Wanamaker once said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Greg Stielstra's book will help keep you from wasting any of your marketing budget. Forged in the challenging world of publisher marketing, the concept of this book is built around the metaphor of starting a fire. Stielstra starts by pointing out the need to isolate the group of consumers most likely to buy. He calls this primary target audience the "driest tinder." Then, instead of spreading your marketing funds broadly, he encourages you to focus your marketing resources on this group (touch them with the match) by giving them a product experience. Then, you "fan the flames" of their enthusiasm by enabling these consumers to become product evangelists. Finally, you collect the consumer data (save the coals) so that the next time you want to communicate with this audience, you can do it effiently.

I read a lot of marketing books. Some are full of philosophical fluff. This one is extremely practical. As technology continues to advance, it will confirm the brilliance of Stielstra's approach by enabling us to follow his advice more cost-effectively. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

John Sawyer
Chief Strategy Officer
Grey Matter Group
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Book Marketing Expert Lights Fire Under Old Idea of Mass Marketing, October 8, 2005
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If you are not using the techniques outlined in PryoMarketing now, you will be in the near future. Why? Greg Stielstra discusses why mass advertising and mass marketing are failing to deliver customers via these traditional mediums. With thousands of messages coming at consumers everyday and the wide use of devices such as TIVO what's a marketer to do?

In PryoMarketing readers will learn to begin a marketing campaign with the most likely customers who Stielstra calls the "driest tinder." With numerous references to "fire" throughout the book the point he drives home by using the analogy is that in order to start a fire you don't try to light a log on fire you light the "driest tinder" or the people most likely to be interested in your product or service.

Stielstra discusses in great detail the successful application of this technique in the promotion of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" and Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life."

As a book publicist and book marketing expert myself, I can attest to the importance of the valuable information found in PryoMarketing.

Scott Lorenz
President
Westwind Communications
www.westwindcos.com/book
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book!, December 8, 2005
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I love this book!

It is timely, practical, and relevant. It must makes sense.

Plus, you get sample the book if you are skeptical at the author's web-page at [...] The entire, unabridged book is available for download in MP3.

I have read a lot of books on marketing. This one has changed my approach.
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driest tinder, customer evangelists, marketing fire, affiliation networks, radiative feedback, traditional mass marketing, saving the coals, charred cloth, reward circuit, social proof, consumer database, heat release rate, connecting customers, ignition temperature, ignition point
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The Passion of the Christ, Phineas Gage, Rick Warren, Super Bowl, United States, Early Adopters, Forty Days of Purpose Campaign, Mel Gibson, Tom Vincent, Early Majority, Green Bay Packers, Jack London, Fast Company, Antonio Damasio, Los Angeles, Malcolm Gladwell, The Driest Tinder Figure, World Wide Web
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