Managing online marketing requires a variety of skills which are not directly related to the work being performed. As a manager your job is to measure, budget, and prioritize this work. Understanding the benefits of different types of marketing, the metrics to measure those benefits and the risk reward for each type of marketing campaign is essential to managing online marketing. You can't count on the consultants you are working with, to tell you which methods will work best for you as most will favor whatever they specialize in, so you need the solid understand of how Social Media, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Affiliate Marketing work together, and how to balance the limitations of each. This book provides guidance, insight and strategies for managers, marketers, and executives in plain English. While this book is useful for a developer or engineer to understand what the end result of their efforts should be, it does not explain in technical terms how analytics are processed or provide code examples for creating reports. Instead this book focuses on understanding the output of tools, ROI's from different methodologies, and strategies for successfully marketing online. Through simple examples from familiar companies, Brandon walks you through how to use tools from Google, Alexa, Yahoo, Microsoft, and more to keep track of your presence on the web. Illustrations, and sample data let you see real world examples which demonstrate how other companies are approaching online marketing with and without success. Questions included in this text help you to ask your SEO, SEM, and Social Media Experts the right things to find someone who honest, qualified, and with the skill balance you need. ....read more

Increase your sales and profits with expert tips on SEO, Marketing, Design, Selling Strategies, etc.

• Turn your e-commerce site into a money-making enterprise
• Full of practical tips and tricks to improve profit with osCommerce
• Professional advice on choosing the best contributions

In Detail

If you have an osCommerce-based online business, you need this book. Packed with expert guidance on all aspects of building a better online, this book will make your store stand out from the crowd.

All approaches and techniques described here are proven to have worked well for successful osCommerce-based online businesses among the, over 650, all around the globe with which the author has been actively involved as developer, project manager, or online business consultant.

osCommerce is an open-source e-commerce solution written in PHP and MySQL that can be set up on various platforms. More than 10,000 businesses and sole traders all around the world benefit from its features and flexibility. The importance of the osCommerce community consisting of over 100,000 can not be stressed enough as this is where both online merchants and web developers can communicate and find solutions. There are many contributions -- modules for osCommerce that further extend its functionality -- making it suitable for almost every business's requirements.

What you will learn from this book?

• Calculate and monitor profits
• Monitor and track efficiency of advertising campaigns
• Optimize your osCommerce online store for search engines
• Internal and External Search Engine Optimization (SEO):
• Getting popular on search engines
• Web page optimization
• Structure and dynamic content
• Keyword selection
• Back-linking strategies
• Make your SEO campaigns pay off
• Superb ideas for appealing store design
• Reach profitable new markets by fine-tuning your product catalog
• Best practices for product listing and product information pages
• Build and maintain customer confidence
• Run a properly planned promotion campaign
• Use and extend the reporting facility of osCommerce
• Practical insights on creating custom reports
• Improve your process and efficiency while maintaining business profitability
• Convert customers into repeat customers

Approach

Packed with expert advice and practical examples of effective store design and report creation to help you make better decisions, formulate more effective strategies, and measure your success.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for anyone administering an osCommerce site, including webmasters, content managers, store owners, and marketing managers, who do not need to understand PHP or MySQL to benefit from this book. The tips and techniques described in this book can be applied to any small, medium sized e-commerce site.

This is not an implementation guide; developers implementing osCommerce-based e-commerce sites would benefit from reading Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook. ....read more

Most online business owners are getting nowhere figuring out how to get traffic from search engines. It is a known fact that to have visitors to your websites - one needs greater visibility within the search engines. But exactly how do you do it? Since 2010 is here, you want your website to be growing with traffic rather than with few visitors. Gary E. Haffer's new book, Online Marketing Terms Exposed: Understand the Lingo of Online Search Marketing Experts will help achieve website visibility, traffic and more. Online Marketing Terms Exposed: Understand the Lingo of Online Search Marketing Experts is a useful how-to explanation book designed to help those new to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), managers, online marketers, as well as the more seasoned veterans. Readers will find information ranging from understanding the lingo of online marketing to enhancing a website's visibility to generate traffic. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step examples that demonstrate key search engine optimization techniques, including analyzing your competition, researching and analyzing keywords, developing meta tags, and setting up social networks that help super-size your website, and over 450 terms used in online marketing. One business owner states, Our website was basically invisible on the Internet and after reading only two chapters of Haffer's book and creating effective keywords, we are on page one and prospects are calling me that otherwise would have never found me. If you were wondering how to: * Increase your website's visibility (rank) on Google * How to list your website on the search engines * How to see what the competition is doing and beat them * Avoid Search Engine roadblocks * Develop keywords that produce traffic * Use online press releases to increase customers * Get the most from social sites * Make people find what they want on your website - This is the book that can help! ....read more

Adeptly address today’s business challenges with this powerful new book from web analytics thought leader Avinash Kaushik. Web Analytics 2.0 presents a new framework that will permanently change how you think about analytics. It provides specific recommendations for creating an actionable strategy, applying analytical techniques correctly, solving challenges such as measuring social media and multichannel campaigns, achieving optimal success by leveraging experimentation, and employing tactics for truly listening to your customers. The book will help your organization become more data driven while you become a super analysis ninja! ....read more