Offering a common language, better processes, and a set of practical tools, Convergence Marketing is a real-world guide that successfully combines the best of brand and direct into something more powerful and effective than either can be on its own. Convergence marketing offers the kind of real-time accountability that positions marketing as a vital and effective component of leadership's overall business strategy. Convergence brings brand and direct together with respect to both disciplines, within the same silos. And it offers the necessary tools and processes that deliver better results. Our global market demands nothing less than this fully integrated approach. Convergence Marketing is the key to shifting marketing communications efforts from a cost-based to a profit-driven model and will have your CFO begging you to spend more money.

RICHARD G. ROSEN is founder, President, and CEO of ROSEN, a global consultancy that specializes in transforming marketing and advertising campaigns into cost-effective business models. He speaks to and consults on convergence marketing with recognized brand-name clients around the world. His firm has received twenty-eight Echo Awards, and Richard has received the Caples Organization's Emerson Award and the first ever "B-to-B Marketer of the Year Award" from the International Direct Marketing Association. To get in on the dialogue, visit www.rgrosen.com.