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Sam Hill

Born: August 29, 1953 in Sumter, South Carolina
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Hill resides in Winnetka. He attended the University of Chicago and received there a Master of Business Administration in 1984.

Biography: Sam Hill is a writer and marketer. He spent two decades as a C-level exec and management consultant, traveling and working in over forty countries and with over fifty chief executive officers.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-hill-638b35a/
Web: https://prabook.com/web/sam.hill/3778910


Selected Titles

Buzz Monkey: A Novel of Crime
ISBN: 0752876902 OCLC: 56759988

Orion, London : 2005.

Top Kiernan has been doing all right. He owns Polymath, a thriving research firm which he runs from his home—the 1930s-era schoolhouse he’s renovating just outside of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a bedroom in a basketball court, a handful of flannel shirts, and a splendid collection of tops. He also has a serious habit: Top is addicted to the adrenaline buzz of danger, though periodic perilous errands to Latin America for Shaw’s Mercantile help him handle that. Only now Top’s long-best friend, Dee Lane, has disappeared with a fortune that belongs to Atlanta drug lord Raoul Menes. And in Buzz Monkey’s shifty world of hazardous secrets and hostile camps, Top finds himself the target not merely of Menes but also of ambitious DEA agents, a retired IRA assassin and his heavily armed daughter, a gang of meth-cooking rednecks, an urbane CIA recruiter, and two hired killers in sharkskin suits because everyone thinks Dee left the money with him. Top knows he is working against time and it’s going to take more than adrenaline to survive the maneuvers of all the players in the dangerous game that this deftly plotted debut novel brings unpredictably to a stunning, just, and explosive finish.

Buzz Riff
ISBN: 0786713909 OCLC: 56415282

Carroll & Graf Publishers ; New York : 2004.

Top Keirnan has got problems. The research firm he's been running out of his 30s-era schoolhouse in Athens, Georgia, is beginning to founder, thanks to his former office manager (and ex-lover), who has stolen half his clients and set up shop on her own. And Top is no longer banking big bucks as an operative for Shaw's Mercantile Marine since they've decided his addiction to the adrenaline buzz is more of a risk than an asset. Things are looking tough for Top, when he gets a call.American Civil War General 'Stonewall' Jackson was shot by his own men while on night patrol. His aide-de-camp reached into the General's saddlebags to find something to press against the wound and pulled out a new flag, the Stars and Bars. Stonewall died, but the Bloody Red Rag, as the flag became known, went on to become the most valuable relic of the war. Now it's been stolen and Top is asked to find it.Normally Top wouldn't touch a job like this: the money's too small, and he's not excited about his arrogant, bigoted client, Professor Jay Pope-Scott. Problem is, Top badly needs those twenty thousand dollars. So he's soon taking on fanatical collectors, ultra-right-wing religious paramilitaries, a biker gang, Fourth Federal Bank and his former lover to save the school and recover the flag.In this sequel to Sam Hill's knockout debut novel, BUZZ MONKEY, the action comes non-stop. The scrapes are daunting, the escapes hair-raising and the outcome stunningly unpredictable.

Radical Marketing: From Harvard to Harley, Lessons from Ten That Broke the Rules and Made It Big
ISBN: 0887309054 OCLC: 39763736

HarperBusiness, New York, N.Y. : ©1999.

How did the Grateful Dead use its fanatical following to build a $100 million brand that still thrives today? How did upstart Boston Beer Company—makers of Sam Adams—prevail over rival Anheuser-Busch without an advertising budget? And how did lams create the premium pet food market and leap from $16 million to $600 million in sales in just fifteen years, while charging twice the price of competitor Ralston-Purina? The answer: radical marketing. In this fresh, provocative book, Sam Hill and Glenn Rifkin identify the marketing strategies that have enabled ten innovative companies to emerge as industry leaders. What do these organizations have in common? Each is Intune emotionally with its customer base, allowing them to glean superior marketing insight without spending millions of dollars. Each is more focused on the big picture—growth and expansion—rather than short-term profits. And, despite their current success, each started out with little more than a passion for their product. Engrossing, informative, and invaluable, Radical Marketing demonstrates how any company, large or small, can achieve unprecedented success through inventive and revolutionary tactics.

Sixty Trends In Sixty Minutes
ISBN: 0471225800 OCLC: 49977830

John Wiley, New York : ©2002.

A showcase of the sixty trends that will have the biggest impact on business in the next decade In Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes (A Brandweek Book), top marketer Sam Hill, author of the bestselling Radical Marketing, highlights the trends that will have the biggest impact on marketing, brand management, and product development within the next decade. He separates the momentary fads from the lasting movements and reveals why trends matter, where they come from, and how to exploit them. He also describes the ten factors that will influence current trends and trends to come, such as exponential population growth, urbanization, interconnectedness, and the decreasing role of work in our lives. With these valuable insights in hand, business leaders will learn how to differentiate their product on the shelf, tap into specific markets, meet consumers' desires for "authentic" products, and much more. Hill also guides managers in conducting trend workshops identical to those offered by his consulting group at top-dollar prices. Timely, relevant, and global in its scope, this book offers entrepreneurs and managers new ideas and techniques for finding success today and in the future.

The Infinite Asset: Managing Brands to Build New Value
ISBN: 1578512492 OCLC: 46314572

Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass. : ©2001.

Introduces a 3-D mapping tool - the brand portfolio molecule - that lets managers visualize elements of a brand and how they interact to create new value. This book argues that a company's brand portfolio must reflect how the target customer actually views the brand.

 

 

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