The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
by David Meerman Scott
from Wiley
The Internet has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other. But it has also changed the way businesses communicate with their customers (and those who they want to be customers). In the old days, companies could only communicate through the filter of expensive advertising or media ink placed by a PR firm. Today the rules have changed entirely.
The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers your business. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with the those who make your business work. You can reach niche buyers with targeted messages that cost a fraction of your big-budget ad campaign. Rather than bombard them with advertising they’ll likely ignore, you can focus on getting the right message to the right people at the right time.
When people visit your company’s Web site, they aren’t there to hear your slogan or see your logo again. They want information, interaction, and choice—and you’d be a fool not to give it to them. This one-of-a-kind guide to the future of marketing includes a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet, showing you how to identify audiences, create compelling messages, get those messages to the right people, and lead those consumers into the buying process. Including a wealth of compelling case studies and real-world examples, this is a practical guide to the new reality of PR and marketing.
Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
by Avinash Kaushik
from Sybex
Written by an in-the-trenches practitioner, this step-by-step guide shows you how to implement a successful Web analytics strategy. Web analytics expert Avinash Kaushik, in his thought-provoking style, debunks leading myths and leads you on a path to gaining actionable insights from your analytics efforts. Discover how to move beyond clickstream analysis, why qualitative data should be your focus, and more insights and techniques that will help you develop a customer-centric mindset without sacrificing your company’s bottom line.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions
by Tim Ash
from Sybex
How much money are you losing because of poor landing page design? In this comprehensive, step-by-step guide, you’ll learn all the skills necessary to dramatically improve your bottom line, including identifying mission critical parts of your website and their true economic value, defining important visitor classes and key conversion tasks, Â gaining insight on customer decision-making, uncovering problems with your page and deciding which elements to test, developing an action plan, and avoiding common pitfalls. Includes a companion website and a detailed review of the Google Website Optimizer tool.
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
by Darren Rowse
from Wiley
Blogging has become a popular and fascinating pastime for many, but more and more bloggers are finding it can also be an excellent source of direct or indirect income. Although the barriers to starting a blog are low, without expert guidance it is easy to get frustrated when success doesn’t match expectations. Written by the creator of the world’s #1 resource for making money with blogs, ProBlogger takes the reader from absolute beginner to earning money from or as a result of blogging. Through step by step practical lessons the reader will choose a blog topic, analyze the market, set up a blog, promote it and earn revenue.
Unlike other books that are big on potential and theory, ProBlogger provides results based on the authors own experience of what really works through practical, tried and tested advice. Inside readers will learn:
- How Bloggers Make Money
- Direct Income Earning vs. Indirect Income Earning methods
- Why Niches are Important
- Using 20 critical blogging tools
- 20 Ingredients for a successful blog post
- Optimizing advertising
- Which advertising platforms work best
- Expert analysis of Technocrat’s Top Blogs – why they work
and so much more.
A Beginner's Guide to Day Trading Online (2nd edition)
by Toni Turner
from Adams Media
Day trading is highly profitableÑand highly tumultuous. Moreover, the financial markets have changed considerably in recent years. Expert author Toni Turner gives you the latest information on mastering the markets, including:
- Decimalization of stock prices
- New trading products such as E-minis and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
- Precision entries and exits
Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
by Brian Clifton
from Sybex
Let Web metrics expert Brian Clifton help you maximize your website's potential. In this book you'll discover the information you need to get a true picture of your site's impact and stay competitive using Google Analytics. Featuring implementation techniques not documented elsewhere, this informative guide teaches you how to turn data into actionable information and optimize the user experience of your website for better conversions. You'll learn to:
- Measure your web traffic, its sources and visitor engagements and understand its impact on ROI
- Configure your data collection parameters to track all online marketing channels, Flash events, banners, and more
- Follow best practices for tracking offline activities and learn how to extract, analyze, and integrate the collected data
- Optimize checkout systems, pay-per-click campaigns (including AdWords), SEO, and email marketing efforts
- Discover the benefits of ad version testing and the insight multivariate testing can bring
With a better understanding of your website visitors, you will be able to tailor page content and marketing budgets with laserlike precision for a better return on investment, and ultimately, a better bottom line.
Search Engine Optimization: Your visual blueprintfor effective Internet marketing (Visual Blueprint)
by Kristopher B. Jones
from Visual
"This book is an excellent learning tool. Like any other tool, you get out of it exactly what you put in. My advice is to spend as much time with each section as YOU need. If you do that, you will walk away with every bit of the knowledge an industry thought leader can provide."--Kevin M. Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director
Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch
"Search engine optimization is, without question, one of the highest ROI activities a business can undertake. It’s also one of the most misunderstood. Fortunately, we’ve got people like Kris to act as our tour guide and translator. A solid strategy and attention to detail are essential to a successful SEO campaign and that’s exactly what Kris delivers."--Rand Fishkin, Chief Blogger and CEO, SEOmoz
"Kristopher Jones is one of a small number of entrepreneurial executives whose confidence, innovation, and creativity has been instrumental in developing and framing search engine, social media optimization, and Internet marketing. Kristopher is a modern day blend of John Wayne, Thomas Edison, and Andy Warhol. Kristopher Jones and his Pepperjam team tirelessly implement innovative search engine optimization, pay-per-click, affiliate marketing, and social media optimization solutions for a broad base of corporate customers. Kristopher Jones will continue to have a profound effect on Internet marketing and social networking." --Jack Kiefer, President & CEO, BabyAge.com
"Kris envisioned search engine optimization as an integral element of online marketing before the phrase was even coined. This book reveals his secrets for success in getting competitive words and phrases highly ranked on the major search engines. Since 2000, Kris and his team at Pepperjam have implemented successful SEO strategies for igourmet.com, helping grow our revenues and shape our product mix. I highly recommend this book as either an easy-to-follow road map for novices or a valuable reference for experts."--Spencer Chesman, President & CEO, igourmet.com
"Search engine optimization (SEO) is an integral part of an effective online marketing strategy. With this book Kris offers a step-by-step guide to get your Web site ranked by the major search-engines. At 1-800-PetMeds we have worked with Kris and his team at Pepperjam for the last three years to implement a range of online marketing strategies that have worked very effectively. I highly recommend you read this book and implement the strategies contained within." --Alex Irvin, Online Marketing Director, 1-800-PetMeds.com
"Search engine optimization has emerged as the flagship service in the growing Internet marketing landscape, and Kristopher Jones is a leader in explaining the intricate details and subtle balances that make it all work." --Bruce Clay, President, Bruce Clay, Inc.
"Kris Jones is a leading expert in marketing both affiliate-based and client sites. His expertise comes from a wide perspective you can’t get from most search engine marketers. When I listened to Kris speak at the Elite Retreat conference, I felt like I was a conference attendee rather than a fellow speaker."--Aaron Wall, SEO Expert and Blogger, SEObook.com
Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 140 key search engine optimization techniques, including:
- Analyzing your competition
- Researching and analyzing keywords
- Developing your link building skills
- Setting up blogs and communities
- Using Google Analytics
- Networking with Facebook and MySpace
- Boosting traffic with Digg and StumbleUpon
- Setting up pay-per-click campaigns
- Discovering ways to monetize Web traffic
- Installing valuable SEO plug-ins
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- "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
- High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
- Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
- Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations.
by Amy Shuen
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today's Web. This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned "word of mouth" becomes hypergrowth. Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide demonstrates the power of this new paradigm by examining how: Flickr, a classic user-driven business, created value for itself by helping users create their own value Google made money with a model based on free search, and changed the rules for doing business on the Web-opening opportunities you can take advantage of Social network effects can support a business-ever wonder how FaceBook grew so quickly? Businesses like Amazon tap into the Web as a source of indirect revenue, using creative new approaches to monetize the investments they've made in the Web Written by Amy Shuen, an authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide explains how to transform yourbusiness by looking at specific practices for integrating Web 2.0 with what you do. If you're executing business strategy and want to know how the Web is changing business, this book is for you.
Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
by Andy Sernovitz
from Kaplan Business
Master the art of word of mouth marketing with this fun, practical, hands-on guide.
With straightforward advice and humor, marketing expert Andy Sernovitz will show you how the world’s most respected and profitable companies get their best customers for free through the power of word of mouth.
Learn the five essential steps that make word of mouth work and everything you need to get started using them. Understand the real purpose of blogs, communities, viral email, evangelists, and buzz—when to use them and how simple it is to make them work.
Learn what sparks the irrepressible enthusiasm of Apple and TiVo fans. Understand why everyone is talking about a certain restaurant, car, band, or dry cleaner—and why other businesses and products are ignored. Discover why some products become huge successes without a penny of promotion—and why some multi-million-dollar advertising campaigns fail to get noticed.
Open your eyes to a new way of doing business—that honest marketing makes more money, because customers who trust you will talk about you. Learn how to be the remarkable company that people want to share with their friends.
eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days
by Steve Weber
from Weber Books
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