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May 22, 2007 jay conrad levinson is the author of more than a dozen books in the guerrilla marketing series. Franchise group, inc is an american holding company that owns retail companies and. Based on the class business book guerrilla marketing by jay conrad levinson. Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy that focuses on lowcost unconventional marketing tactics that yield maximum results the original term was coined by jay conrad levinson in his 1984 book guerrilla advertising. As marketing continues to change, the secrets of guerrilla marketing continue to change. Thanks for reading my post covering 15 valuable quotes and lessons from the book guerrilla marketing by jay conrad levinson. Not long after we accepted guerrilla marketing, i was driving my daughter home from a softball game in clifton, new jersey, when we passed a man who could have been indian on a street corner wearing a statue of liberty costume and holding a sign that read liberty taxjust like vikram, the protagonist of your story. The 24 area liberty tax service outlets are known for their human mascots dressed up as the statue of liberty or uncle sam, standing on street corners and waving in traffic. Or was it an organized marketing plan to make it seem so.
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