Want to make money online? If done well, guerrilla social media marketing can help you persuade, command attention, establish dialogue, differentiate yourself, capture new markets, and outmaneuver the competition--all on a shoestring budget. Whether you're selling digital goods and services, physical goods, or local services, this book has the answers.
Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.
In this book, I'll be sharing with you some of the most effective e-commerce tips I've learned over the years. These tips will teach you how you can improve your web store to make more money over the next holiday season, drive more traffic, and strengthen sales and leads to maximize your return on investment (ROI). I've done my best to cover everything you need, to help you get more revenue, opt-ins and profit from your e-commerce website. Get actionable advice for your ecommerce store, for example: Making More Money this Holiday Season Getting More Website Traffic SEO Tips Promotional Email Campaigns Analytics Setup and Review Creating Landing Pages Improving Conversion Rates Generating More Opt-In Leads Increasing Retention Anyone selling products or services online can benefit from this book. You will learn exactly how to make your website more successful and increase the amount of money you make from your website or e-commerce store. This also includes clear, actionable steps for you to increase retention and create loyal customers that will come back to spend more money. Plus, you can get examples of each case study listed in the book. The book starts off with general advice about driving traffic to your website. Then, it details how to better understand your target customer. This is where we start to understand exactly to whom you should be marketing and why. Creating personas and your customer avatar will help you determine how and where you should be marketing your products. Next, I dive into specific areas of an e-commerce website. Each section has specific tips to maximize the effectiveness. I recommend trying as many of the tips as possible. Not all the advice will work exactly as I have outlined it. You need to test and experiment to determine the right approach for you. Finally, you will read specific suggestions on how to make more money from your e-commerce website. This money will come not only from new customers but also from repeat customers. This strategy is to help improve retention, resulting in a larger lifetime value. That includes suggestions for when your customers receive their products at their home or office. Apply the tactics listed in this book to any self-hosted shopping carts or hosted ecommerce solution. The most popular hosted ecommerce software includes Shopify, BigCommerce, Volusion, NetSuite, Magento and Wordpress.
Ecommerce and Beyond is a simple, non-technical book for bricks-and-mortar shop owners, entrepreneurs and store sales managers who are ready to succeed online, or can't figure out why their ecommerce website is not selling as much as it should. In this book, Rodolfo Melogli explains his very basic yet effective ecommerce strategy. This practical 9-step, bullet-proof system has helped countless small and medium business owners across Ireland, the UK, the USA and Italy build and maintain profitable websites. The author shares all the up-to-date, expert knowledge and insights that ecommerce managers need to take charge of their online success . Ecommerce and Beyond combines the basics of internet marketing together with practical expert tips, so that online retailers can: Attract the right website traffic Engage and turn browsers into buyers Leverage referrals and product reviews Skyrocket online sales This book is not about web design. Plenty of shiny designer websites out there simply do not convert sales. Ecommerce and Beyond is about turning visitors into leads and browsers into buyers . That is the essence of good ecommerce marketing – having your website sell globally, 24/7, 365 days per year and automatically, even while you sleep, and without a degree in rocket science.
This textbook focuses on the members of the digital value chain of eBusiness and eCommerce and dedicates a separate chapter to each member part: eProducts & eServices, eProcurement, eMarketing, eContracting, eDistribution, ePayment, as well as eCustomer Relationship Management. In addition to business models and business webs, digital procurement and marketing processes are likewise addressed such as electronic negotiation processes, security questions with digital signatures, as well as electronic supplier relationship management and customer relationship management. The topics are described based on explicit procedures and descriptive examples of application. The gradual set-up of an electronic Webshop for DVD’s serves as a continuous case study. The book is directed towards students of economics at universities and technical colleges; it is also suitable for executives, project leaders, and company experts who deal with the digital value chain.
In this textbook, Heizer (business administration, Texas Lutheran U.) and Render (operations management, Rollins College) provide a broad introduction to the field of operations management. A sampling of topics includes operations strategy for competitive advantage, forecasting, design of goods and services, human resources, e- commerce, project management, inventory management, and maintenance. The CD-ROM contains video case studies, lecture notes, Excel OM and Extend software, and additional practice problems. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
For big-ticket sales ranging from $2,000 to $2.5 million, the add-to-shopping cart, click-here-to-check-out approach just doesn't make sense. Regnerus offers an approach to e-commerce designed exclusively to help sell high-priced products and services using the Internet.
Drawing on research at more than 40 top e-commerce organizations, he helps you optimize brand, technology, service, market, and development - and answer critical questions."--BOOK JACKET.
Organic traffic from search engines through search engine optimization (SEO) is of paramount importance for ecommerce websites to be successful. Unfortunately, SEO advice targeted specifically towards ecommerce websites is scarce, not detailed and scattered in multiple places. As a result, people involved with ecommerce are likely to struggle to find relevant advice from SEO experts. The purpose of this book is to advise ecommerce business owners, executives, marketers and IT professionals on the ecommerce-specific tactics needed to increase organic search traffic.
Introduction -- The 12 core principles of ecommerce -- pt. I: Evolved strategy : Funnel-based ecommerce ; Recurring income core -- Think before you sell ; Conversion tricks, sales boosts, and profit maximizers -- pt. II: Evolved intelligence : Your target market ; Your competition ; Exploit your data -- pt. III: Evolved marketing : Advertising channels ; Front-end marketing ; Back-end marketing-- Final thoughts.
