A crash course on the most dynamic marketing platform today!Online marketing has evolved far beyond flashy websites and banner ads shouting at customers about your product. It's about using an array of Internet tools to build credibility and visibility, spread your message, and form meaningful customer relationships.The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Online Marketing puts you on the fast track to harnessing the power of the Web for your marketing goals. It begins wi...

BIG PRESENCE isn't just for BIG COMPANIES anymore! A social media marketing handbook for small business owners on the goSocial media has opened the door to anyone who wants to promote themselves--including small businesses. Designed specifically for busy small business owners, this book puts you on the fast track to maximizing your business's visibility and generating profits—regardless of the size of your marketing budget or the time you have to devote to it.30-Minut...

How to Blog a Book teaches you how to create a blog book with a well-honed and uniquely angled subject and targeted posts-and how to build the audience necessary to convince agents and publishers to make your blog into a book.Inside you'll find:• Basic information on how to set up your blog and the essential plug-ins and other options necessary to get the most out of each post• Steps for writing a book easily from scratch using blog posts• Advice on h...

Manipulative sales tactics, long sales letters with big and bold headlines, and spammy emails aren't the only way to get visibility and capture sales online. Own Your Niche brings authenticity back to internet marketing, teaching you how to showcase your business with practical, easy-to-use strategies that you can implement yourself.You will learn how to:• Identify and connect with your target audience• Turn up the traffic generation on your website• Build an e...

Hidden on the Internet, scattered among billions of Web pages, are the clues to an incredible secret. For those who know the secret, the result is untold wealth. Each month, a small group of people put their knowledge of Google AdSense to use and receive four and five-figure checks from Google. And untold numbers of additional site owners are regularly generating supplemental income via AdSense while they play, sleep and eat. A New York Times Best Seller, The AdSense Code is now revised an...

Blogs, which are also known as web logs are all the rage right now online. Everyone has a blog, and everyone is making money by blogging. The question is how are they doing it? What is so special about a blog that you can make money by posting on it? First you should know that a blog is a little bit like an online journal. You can make posts in it about anything that you want to, and then publish it for the whole world to read. If you have never blogged before, it is a good idea to do so j...

Social media can transform the way you recruit. Using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media platforms, you can connect with great new sources of talent faster and more effectively than ever before. You’ll learn how to use social media to build an open, engaging two-way conversation with potential employees…target job advertising more efficiently and at lower cost…choose the right tools and platforms…. Packed with real case studies and actionable lessons, Recruiti...

Blogs, networking sites, and other examples of the social web provide businesses with a largely untapped marketing channel for products and services. But how do you take advantage of them? With The New Community Rules, you'll understand how social web technologies work, and learn the most practical and effective ways to reach people who frequent these sites.Written by an expert in social media and viral marketing, this book cuts through the hype and jargon to give you inte...

This book will help you do PR through promotion, publicity, networking, and social media. Chapters include launching your PR campaign, approaching the press, creating your press materials, using a website or blog, sending press materials to the media, handling follow-up, timing and keeping track of your PR, using e-books, networking at events, using the social media, and assessing your campaign.

If your customers are spending more and more time online, why aren't you advertising there? Do you think it's too expensive, too confusing, too hard to reach your target market? If your business is already active online, is it getting enough bang for its bucks?   Let an online marketing expert teach you the secrets of advertising online to achieve business goals. She'll show just how inexpensive it is to advertise digitally.   Use Online A...

Pick a topic, an interest or a profession. Most likely, there are established forums dedicated to that subject, where members share their passion, exchange information and help each other.Behind the scenes at virtually every successful forum is an administrator who works tirelessly to ensure that it runs smoothly and continues to grow and improve. Sometimes, these forums can grow so large that they require a team of people to be hired on a part time or full time basis.As a ...

How do you turn website visitors into customers?Conversion Optimization offers practical advice on how to persuade visitors to make a buying decision -- without driving them away through data overload or tedious navigation. You'll learn how to use marketing principles, design, usability, and analytics on your site to increase your buyer-to-visitor ratio, whether you're involved with marketing or designing a large ecommerce site, or managing a modest online operation.