Social Marketing

Worldwide, there are over 6,000,000 online searches every month for “eCommerce” with over 33,000,000 search results. In other words, there are a whole lot of people and businesses looking to make money through online business promotion, or eCommerce. At no other time in history has it been easier for anyone and everyone to market to the entire planet. With eCommerce, you can reach those big dreams. But you have to know how to approach the field.

How do I grow my following on social media? How do I get more likes and views? These are common questions you may ask - especially when you stare at your phone, having just started a new Instagram account for your business. The number of followers happens to be a big fat zero. Yet this happens to be the platform you hope to promote your products or services. Now looking at it, the whole idea of managing social media marketing is plain daunting.

It sounds so simple: Tell stories from your life, and people will remember your message. But when you get down to crafting one, there's nothing easy about it. Material for stories surrounds us. Yet few people are skilled at sharing personal anecdotes and even fewer know how to link them to professional goals. Whether you want to stand out in the interview process, add punch to a presentation, or make a compelling case for a new initiative, Let the Story Do the Work shows you how to mine your experience for simple narratives that convey who you are.

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard - only to give their hard-earned money away? When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests instead that our choices are often irrational, biased, and occasionally even moronic. Which view is right - or is there another possibility?

In The Referral of a Lifetime, author Tim Templeton frames a powerful plan for cultivating clients and customers in a fable about businesswoman Susie McCumber, who feels increasingly like a failure. A friend refers her to the mysterious Mr. Highground, who introduces her to four successful people. They show her how they transformed their businesses and their lives by determining how others view them and how they view themselves.

Winfluence, by award-winning digital strategist Jason Falls, is the authoritative book about influencer marketing from the perspective of businesses and brands. An invaluable guidebook for marketing managers, small business owners, marketing consultants and agencies alike, the book explains how influencers came to be, how they came to be so powerful, why so many brands are counting on influencer marketing for business success, and how anyone who is not, now can.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant. Groups are better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.

Are you ready to skyrocket your business growth and attract more leads and sales without breaking the bank? Look no further! The Greatest Podcast Marketing Book Ever Written is your ultimate guide to mastering the art of podcast guest marketing.

In Will the Real You Please Stand Up, leading social media expert, Kim Garst, shares with you the tips, tricks, and techniques that have helped her rise to, and stay at the top of, the social media world. However, this is not a "how to" book on social media. It is something much more powerful. It is a guided journey to discovering the most unstoppable force in nature, something you already have but just don't know how to harness and unleash...YOU!

The intensification of marketing in recent years has led the public to become much more aware of its role as consumers. Yet, the increased visibility of marketing materials and associated messages in everyday life is in contrast with the often little-understood inner workings of the marketing profession itself, despite the widespread recognition of marketers as key agents in shaping the face of global capitalism. Inside Marketing offers a theoretically informed critical perspective on contemporary marketing practice and its growing cultural, economic, and political influence.

Cheap. It's a dirty word laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid winters and rarely using his car's turn signals - to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare. In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny.

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers.

Optimize is designed to give readers a practical approach to integrating search and social media optimization with content marketing to boost relevance, visibility, and customer engagement. Companies, large and small, will benefit from the practical planning and creative content marketing tactics in this book that have been proven to increase online performance across marketing, public relations, and customer service.

This groundbreaking book shows nonprofits a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world: a networked approach enabled by social technologies, where connections are leveraged to increase impact in effective ways that drive change for the betterment of our society and planet.

Empathy is an extremely powerful ability. It allows one to feel what others are feeling, sympathize with them, and eventually influence their emotions to help them overcome any negative feelings. This sensitivity to emotions can sometimes reflect negatively on empaths - they are often victims of dark psychology techniques. Luckily, there’s a way that allows empaths to protect their mind against emotional predators, and achieve superior control over their empathic powers – Stoicism!

The balance of power has changed. Consumers have more power and control than ever before. They want everything now. Gone are the days when consumers were restricted to brick-and-mortar stores, websites, or even app experiences. Social Retail Marketing (SRM™) is the future. Marketing is now as much about digital engagement and data as storytelling. The book lays out the data, the strategy, and the tools to effectively reach, sell, and serve consumers inside social media and messaging channels. Discover the future of marketing in this groundbreaking book.

Written for the complicated and quirky world of associations and membership organizations, Open Community is about how associations can - and why they should - build community online. Grant and Dreyer provide a practical analysis of the strategic, structural, and cultural issues membership organizations face when using social media to build community.

The growing online market has made this type of marketing more popular and profitable. It has also made it easier to grow and expand whatever type of business an individual is in with the help of numerous professional marketers who will not necessarily appear on their payroll. Therefore, while its history started long before the invention of the Internet, the Internet has transformed it and made it widely available to the masses.

A practical guide to using podcasting as the ultimate marketing tool to grow and scale your business and personal brand. Offers a clear, comprehensive, and practical framework for anyone seeking to harness the power of podcasting as a strategic marketing tool. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a senior executive, a healthcare professional, or a community leader, this guide provides actionable insights designed to help you connect with your audience, amplify your message, and achieve meaningful growth.

Così come esistono delle regole per la scrittura tradizionale su carta, ne esistono anche per il web writing, cioè per la scrittura sul web. In effetti, ogni volta che scriviamo online, stiamo comunicando su un mezzo che ha caratteristiche particolari, differenti da quelle di tutti gli altri media. Lo si capisce già dal fatto che i testi per Internet si chiamino "contenuti", e che non siano semplicemente composti da parole, ma anche da link, da immagini e da video. La scrittura per il web è in sostanza un mondo a sé rispetto alla scrittura tradizionale.