| Doing Business Digitally The internet is rapidly transforming the South African business landscape. For the first time the consumer has a voice; small businesses can run rings around large corporations; local consumers are buying internationally; and local businesses are selling globally. This creates massive opportunities - and an urgent need to change. Doing Business Digitally: demonstrates the increasing power of the internet as a driver of business strategy; demystifies the essential elements of internet marketing; provides examples of how web 2.0, buzz marketing and social media can be used to rapidly grow brand awareness, lead generation and sales; gives practical guidelines for doing ebusiness professionally, drawing on examples from South Africa and abroad; explains step by step how to develop a website that will work as a business tool; shows how search engine marketing can generate traffic to a web page; provides rules to maximise the effectiveness of email marketing and online advertising; and presents a simple eight-step approach to developing a strategy that minimises risk and provides a clear path to success. Complete with a step-by-step strategy guide and comprehensive glossary, Doing Business Digitally shows the way in which companies need to evolve if they are to stay relevant and exploit new opportunities. Price: $10.00 USD
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| Realty Blogging Unleash the power of blogging in your real estate business. Are you blogging for your real estate business? Realty Blogging shows you how to fully utilize this powerful, direct-communication marketing tool, giving you all the know-how you need to capture the interest and business of local homeowners, buyers, and sellers. Drawing upon their extensive experience in blogging, real estate, and online marketing, authors Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney reveal how to:.: Develop an effective Internet marketing strategy.; Generate leads consistently at almost no cost.; Define yourself as an expert in a particular area.; Serve your market niche.; Establish long-term relationships with your customers.; Create content that attracts major search engines.; Create buzz about your blog in the media. Plus, you receive a FREE blogging platform and instructional sessions to get you blogging right away! Price: $18.95 USD
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| Affiliate Program Management Affiliate marketing is hot; here's how to get your program going Nearly every retailer in the Internet Retailers' Top 500 has an affiliate marketing program. Now free affiliate networks, automation software, and pay-for-performance compensation models are making it easy for small businesses to take advantage of this marketing tool. In the popular An Hour a Day format, this guide features a detailed, real-world, task-based approach to developing, launching, and managing a successful affiliate marketing program. It explores market research, determining payment models and reporting guidelines, recruiting affiliates, crafting appropriate communications, and much more. Affiliate marketing programs help boost marketing efforts without incurring excessive costs; this Hour a Day guide provides everything merchants, business owners, and those charged with managing an affiliate program need to know Offers a modern, real-world, step-by-step guide to researching, launching, managing, and optimizing a successful affiliate marketing program Covers social media; creating policies; working with feeds, coupons, widgets, and video; creating compelling content; handling partners who are not meeting goals; and much more Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day is the do-it-yourself guide to planning and maintaining a successful affiliate program. Price: $29.99 USD
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