Authentic marketing : how to capture hearts and minds through the power of purpose / Larry Weber.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Profit meets purpose : find your company's soul -- The era of social consciousness : where technology meets humanity -- A better strategy model for a better world -- The evolution of marketing : moving from manipulation to authenticity -- Search for truths to drive constituency mapping -- Humanize your brand -- Move beyond storytelling to storydoing -- Use data-telling to anchor objectives and validate progress -- Infuse trusted voices in paid, owned and earned media -- Create a purpose-driven culture -- Measuring the legitimacy and managing the value of purpose -- Make a plan -- Purpose is everything.

Engage on a deeper level by disrupting the typical business development script. Authentic Marketing offers a forward-thinking approach to achieving an entirely new level of engagement with today's purpose-driven and skeptical audiences. The heart of this process involves finding the soul of your organization. When moral purpose becomes central to your organization, it can deliver benefits to both the bottom line and mankind: a profit meets purpose proposition. This path requires a reinvention of today's dated business model, abolishing the inefficient, siloed approach of developing a business strategy first and then later creating separate strategies for marketing, HR, manufacturing, R&D, etc. The new integrated model fuses a tight integration of business, technology innovation and engagement strategies, all of which are bound together by a company's moral purpose. When moral purpose is central to an organization's core, everything branches out from a place of authenticity. Rather than a siloed CSR effort, you develop employee and customer relationships based on real-not curated-connections with a brand's moral mission. You build true engagement, trust and evangelism. And, along the way, your customers will actually help to co-create your brand. --Amazon.com