Jon Reed

How to Use Websites, Blogs, Social Networking and Much More

Get up to Speed with Online Marketing

Publishing Talk Magazine issue 3 - NaNoWriMo

ONLINE MARKETING - CAN YOUR SMALL BUSINESS AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT IT? Traditional advertising doesn't always work these days - and it's expensive. People screen out TV ads, magazine ads, and billboards. Instead they're spending time on Facebook, watching YouTube, reading and writing blogs, listening to podcasts and flicking through Twitter. As a small business owner, how do you get the word out about your product or service? By going where your market is. And that's online. This book explains in a straightforward, easy-to-follow style all there is to know about promoting small businesses, online covering all the major online tools available including: Websites Search engine marketing Email marketing Blogging Podcasts Online video Social networks e.g. Facebook and MySpace Virtual worlds e.g. Second Life Social bookmarking It will show readers how to use each medium to their best effect on a limited marketing budget, if not for free!

Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing

'Not to be part of the social media revolution is to miss out. Jon Reed really gets it and shows you how to join in.' Suzanne Moore, Columnist, The Guardian ONLINE MARKETING – CAN YOUR BUSINESS AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT IT? If you want to grow your business, how do you get the word out about your product or service? By going where your market is – and these days, that’s online. This step-by-step guide to online marketing is straightforward, easy to understand and demonstrates simple, affordable and effective ways to: · Design your website – how to create a site and make sure your customers can find it · Use social media to your advantage – how to reach your market on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, Instagram and more · Create engaging online content – how to publish valuable, interesting and sharable content for your blog, podcast and website · Develop an online marketing plan – build your customised plan and measure your results Covering every major online platform, and some smaller ones too, Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing will show you exactly how to maximise each one and develop a cohesive, effective online strategy with a limited budget, or even for free! ‘Packed with practical, no-nonsense insight that allows you not only to keep up but to get ahead.’ Justin Cooke, CEO, POSSIBLE and Chair, British Interactive Media Association

How to use websites, blogs, social networking and more to promote your business

Rachel Meyers

In this illustrated "how-not-to," former recruiters Reed and Meyers open up their own joke files, and share highlights from the worst--and funniest--resumes they ever received.

Resumes from Hell

Melanie Mitchell

Jamie Turner

Lauren Dugan

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art social media guides for business… 7 authoritative, up-to-the-minute practitioner’s guides 7 up-to-the-minute resources bring together today’s most valuable new social media techniques for business! Don’t know where to start with social media and online marketing in your business? Start here, with this easy-to-understand, easy-to-use, low-cost book collection! Jon Reed’s Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing helps you get started fast, find markets online, and effectively promote your business on a very limited budget. It covers websites, search engine marketing, email marketing, blogging, podcasts, online video, social networks, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, and more! Lauren Dugan’s Ultimate LinkedIn Checklist For Small and Medium Businesses shows how to use LinkedIn to leverage your entire network of partners, suppliers, employees, vendors, and competitors. Step-by-step instructions and easy checklists help you deepen the network links you already have – and tap into your network’s networks, uncovering talent, partnerships, vendors and customers you’ll never find any other way! Next, Jamie Turner’s How to Build a Mobile Website shows how to create mobile websites that are clean, simple, load quickly, and are optimized for mobile users. Discover how your customers want to interact with your brand on mobile devices, compare leading approaches to “mobilizing” websites, and avoid pitfalls that lose customers. Turner even offers a high-level overview of the mechanics of mobile site development, construction, and testing, addressing issues ranging from branding to performance and usability. Twitter 101 tells you all you need to know about Twitter marketing, even if you’ve never used Twitter before. Drawing on personal experience and up-to-the-minute industry research, Lauren Dugan covers strategy, tactics, tools, and more. Learn to time tweets for maximum impact, follow the right accounts, attract the right followers, do competitive research, network faster, turbocharge brands, engage users, and build word-of-mouth that generates real sales! Jamie Turner’s How to Use Social Media Monitoring Tools offers a fast-paced primer on social media monitoring and realistic, low-cost methods for getting started. Discover whether your social media presence is achieving results… align measurement with business objectives… measure branding and direct response… quickly capture emerging performance trends; and more. Turner briefly introduces tools from Google and many others, and offers a practical 8-step monitoring plan that even beginners can use. Next Melanie Mitchell brings together complete processes, knowledge, and tools that Unleash the Power of Paid Search . Discover how well-crafted paid search campaigns can help you lead the conversation in your marketplace, extend and deepen your coverage, and more precisely target and measure your marketing program. Next, walk through building and executing a winning campaign: defining goals/objectives, selecting keywords and match types, structuring accounts, scoring quality, managing copy, optimizing landing pages, reporting, and more. Finally, in Understanding SEO, Mitchell draws on immense in-the-trenches experience to completely demystify modern search engine optimization. Learn to grab value from “low hanging fruit,” and start optimizing everything from pages, text, and keywords to images and HTML code. Mitchell explains all the concepts and terms you need to understand, so you can do it yourself, or work successfully with SEO specialists. If you want to get started with social media in your business, this collection is the most valuable, cost-effective resource you can find! From world-renowned business social media experts Jon Reed, Lauren Dugan, Jamie Turner, and Melanie Mitchell

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