Everyone wants loyal, raving customers. But how to you build loyalty-and create brand influence - when traditional advertising and marketing strategies don't work? How can you create real engagement - where your URL matches up with IRL (that's "in real life")? Here's the book that shows you how to build and influence a new kind of conversation - taking your message beyond the likes, tweets and pokes, with a strategic guidebook to branding in the digital age. Learn how to match your message to your market, create new types of engagement, and inspire every division within your organization. Branding isn't just a part of your business - it is your business. Written by Chris Westfall (author of The NEW Elevator Pitch), this book turns traditional marketing ideas into actionable results for your brand. Whether you are a solopreneur, or a brand manager for a multi-national company, you owe it to yourself to understand what organizations like Cargill, Cisco and the Huffington Post know about building a world-class brand. Today, customers have more ammunition than ever. That's why you've got to have bulletproof branding.

There's no doubt that the global market is changing and has significantly changed just within the last five years. Selling used to be about having the best product and the best business practices but now "it's all about relationships," social marketing strategist Ted Rubin proclaims in "Ted Rubin on ROR #RonR."

With customers reading reviews upon reviews of products online, asking their friends and followers via social media for product feedback, building and maintaining customer relationships is more important and easier than ever. What is your organization's Return on Relationship?

Written by a leading social media marketing strategist, Ted Rubin takes you through how the value of your relationships will accrue tenfold over time; how just connecting with followers/future advocates online isn't enough-it's engagement that's key; and how to not just be social on social media but to "socialize" your way to successful Return on Relationship.

The 140 insightful ahas in "Ted Rubin on ROR #RonR" on creating and maintaining relationships are not only helpful tidbits for businesses and entrepreneurs, but they remind us why connecting with other human beings is such a vital element to everyday life. Learn the importance of utilizing social media for your brand, and remind yourself how "just being nice" and smiling can influence others.

"Ted Rubin on ROR #RonR" is part of the THiNKaha series whose slim and handy books contain 140 well thought-out quotes (tweets/ahas). Increase your influence by picking up the THiNKaha app and easily share Ted's quotes on twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+."