Becoming A Digital Marketer: Gaining the Hard & Soft Skills for a Tech-Driven Marketing Career


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In the rapidly paced world of marketing, fresh graduates and traditional marketers alike are learning that the industry is blending with technology at a rate never before seen.It's no longer enough to just be a traditional marketer: in today's tech-driven industry, you've got to be able to build websites, install analytics, run pay-per-click campaigns, join Twitter chats, understand SEO strategy, and experience the underrated power of email marketing. In Part 1, you'll learn the hard skills crucial to a marketing career, like: search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click advertising (PPC), social media marketing, reporting & analytics, web development, and email marketing.In Part 2, you'll read about the soft skills essential to business, likewriting emails, getting your first entry level position, working as a marketing freelancer, starting your marketing agency, and how to work remotely.Also included are in-depth vignettes and interviews with renowned communicators for insightful alternate views on what makes a successful marketer.Authors Gil & Anya Gildner are the cofounders of Discosloth, a search marketing company that has worked with brands like Volvo, MSF, AirTreks, and have been featured in Inc Magazine, the New York Times, Arkansas Business, the Washington Post, and more. They regularly speak at industry conferences and conduct corporate & academic training seminars.




Marketing in the Round


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Drive more value from all your marketing and communications channels--together! Demolish your silos and sync all your messaging, strategies, and tactics (really!). Optimize every medium and platform, from iPad and Facebook to TV and direct. This book is a must-read for every senior marketing, communications, and PR decision-maker. It’s not about social media. Or new (or old) media. It’s about results—and there’s only one way to get results. You must finally bite the bullet, tear down your silos, and integrate all your marketing and communications. That’s how you choose the best platforms and messages for each customer. That’s how you make research and metrics work. That’s how you overcome today’s insane levels of complexity and clutter. You’re thinking: Oh, that’s all I need to do? “Just” integrate my whole organization? Are you nuts? No. We’re not. It can be done. This book’s authors have done it. They’ve shown others how to do it. And now they’re going to show you. Step by step. Strategy. Tactics. Research. Metrics. Culture. Social. Mobile. Direct. Broadcast. Print. All of it. With you, the marketing/communications decision-maker, right at the center...right where you belong! Even now, organizational silos prevent most companies from conversing coherently with customers, delivering the right targeted messages, and building real synergies across all their marketing and communications programs. Now, Gini Dietrich and Geoff Livingston show how to finally break down those silos, bridging traditional and newer disciplines to drive more value from all of them. You’ll learn how to create a flexible marketing hub with integrated spokes including sales, PR, advertising, customer service, HR, social media, and the executive team. Then, you’ll learn how to use your hub to speak cohesively with each customer through the tools and platforms that deliver the best results at the lowest cost. Dietrich and Livingston guide you through hands-on strategic planning, illustrating key points with real case studies and offering practical exercises for applying their principles. You’ll learn how to perform baseline analyses of media from iPad apps to radio, optimize resource allocation, change culture to overcome siloed behavior, use measurement to clear away obstacles, and gain more value from every marketing investment you make. Pull it all together--finally! How to successfully integrate your tactics, tools, messages, and teams Better goals, better results: beyond “SMART” to “SMARTER” Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound, evaluate, and reevaluate Better listening: stakeholders, customers, and research that works How to make sure you hear what really matters Four powerful ways to market in the round When to go direct, come from above, use the groundswell, or execute flanking maneuvers




Digital Marketing


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Digital Marketing discusses about modern marketing methods both online and offline. It speaks about the importance of digital marketing platforms. Through different chapters, the author gives a clear picture of modern marketing techniques such as Facebook Marketing, WhatsApp Marketing, Instagram Marketing, Twitter Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Visual Marketing, Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Pay-Per-Click marketing, Social Media Marketing, Customer Data Platform, etc. The book also speaks about App-based marketing, In-game mobile marketing, display advertising, Web banner advertising, frame ad (traditional banner), Pop-ups/pop-unders, Floating ad, Expanding ad, Trick banners, News Feed Ads, Display advertising process, Text ads, Search engine marketing, Search engine optimization, Sponsored search, Social media marketing, cost per mille (CPM), cost per click (CPC), cost per engagement (CPE), cost per view (CPV), cost per install (CPI).The book is designed to make Digital Marketing simple and convenient to all. This is an inclusive work that provides essential approaches and key concepts of digital marketing. It outlines the modern marketing framework through online and offline platforms. It also explains how to attract consumers by interacting with clients through their cell phone, exciting their imagination and experience with digital display by social media platforms and develop their mind by SEO search and by intriguing them with email marketing that speak to their particular interest.




Introduction To Digital Marketing


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A basic guide to digital marketing in today's fast-changing digital world is Introduction to Digital Marketing. The book itself helps novices and experts understand digital marketing's key principles, tactics, and technologies. The book discusses digital marketing's history, progress, and importance in current marketing techniques. Digital marketing's differences from conventional marketing and the reason it's important in modern companies will be explained. This section covers digital marketing's SEO, social media, email, content, PPC, and other aspects. Each element is examined to show its value and role in a digital marketing plan. The book stresses the need to create a sound digital marketing strategy for particular company objectives and consumers. It helps set goals, find target audiences, budget, pick platforms, and evaluate digital marketing efforts. Content underpins digital marketing. It's important to create interesting material, convey stories, and use multiple content kinds across digital platforms. Digital exposure and paid as well as organic traffic depend on SEO and SEM. Search engine optimization, keywords, methods, and sponsored marketing campaigns are covered in the following paragraphs. Digital marketing toolsets would be incomplete without email marketing. The book discusses producing compelling emails, generating targeted email audiences, and using marketing automation to boost productivity. Understanding digital marketing efficacy is crucial. This section discusses KPI monitoring and analysis solutions to help organizations improve their strategy and outcomes. The book finishes with examples of digital marketing trends and technology that will shape the industry.




Digital Marketing for Businesses in easy steps


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Nowadays, just having a website or an app is not enough. Potential customers aren’t going to stumble across you by accident – you need to employ digital marketing tools and techniques to help them find you and keep you front of mind, and have them coming back again and again. Marketing your products and services online doesn’t have to cost the earth. Lots of digital marketing activities can be done for free, or very little, and are very effective. You may also save costs for advertising in magazines, and creating, printing, and distributing brochures. Furthermore, there are no geographical boundaries on the internet – you can target customers around the globe. Digital marketing for businesses in easy steps guides you through the essential steps you need to take to set your digital strategy and get it right first time. It covers all the key digital marketing channels you should consider deploying to generate a larger, stronger, and a more loyal customer base. It covers: · The fundamentals of digital marketing. · Getting more from your website and getting your “digital house in order”. · The social network sites where your customers are most likely to be active: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. · The art of blogging to get customer loyalty. · How to create and launch a powerful Content Marketing Strategy. · How to use Search Engine Marketing to ensure customers find you and buy from you. · How to measure and optimize the effectiveness of your digital marketing. Whether you are new to digital marketing or want to rethink your strategies, this book is for you. Digital marketing is now essential for businesses – don’t miss the trick! Table of Contents 1. Introduction to digital marketing 2. Content is king 3. Blogging 4. SEM & SEO 5. The customer journey 6. Customer profiling 7. Marketing automation 8. Building landing pages that convert 9. Optimizing your website 10. Instagram 11. Facebook 12. Twitter 13. LinkedIn 14. Pinterest 15. Google Analytics




Mindset Metamorphosis


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This book, "Adventures of a Guru Wannabe," was born out of a desire to share these lessons with fellow entrepreneurs who might be facing similar struggles. I wanted to create a resource that not only highlights the common pitfalls in the journey of a netpreneur but also provides practical solutions to overcome them. By sharing my story and the insights I've gained, I hope to inspire and guide others to navigate their own entrepreneurial paths with confidence and resilience.




Direct, Digital & Data-Driven Marketing


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In this latest edition of her classic text, Lisa Spiller takes an insightful, in-depth look at contemporary marketing concepts, tactics, and techniques and the dynamic innovations that continue to drive and shape this multi-faceted, multi-dimensional field. Direct, Digital, and Data-Driven Marketing recognizes the growth of the various digital formats as the newest interactive channels for conducting modern marketing. But it does not overlook the traditional principles of direct marketing still relevant today. This book examines the field both as it once was and as it is evolving. With plenty of learning features online resources, the Fifth Edition provides an engaging journey, which will leave any marketing student with a thorough knowledge of how all kinds of businesses manage regular communication with their customer base and target demographic.




Digital Business Goldmines


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A Practical Breakdown Of Hottest Profitable Internet Businesses You Can Start in Next 24 hours With Zero Investment, Zero Experience, And Zero Technical. It is one thing to understand that there is money to be made on the internet, It is quite another thing to know exactly where that money can be made. In addition, any serious business person must seriously consider the Strength; Weaknesses; Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) inherent in each opportunity before making a choice which one to pursue. While there are literally hundreds, if not thousands. of ways to make money on the internet, I will choose just 11 most promising ones to discuss in this chapter. The more enterprising NetpreneurS can then do more research to uncover other gems not mentioned in this manifesto.




Digital Marketing


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Digital Marketing: A Practical Approach 2nd Edition is a step-by-step guide to marketing using the Internet. Concentrating on the operational and functional aspects of this dynamic subject, the book is packed with tactical advice and real-life examples from those leading the field to help you succeed. Written as an accessible guide to equip you for the digital element of any contemporary marketing role, Digital Marketing covers all the key topics including search engine optimization and social media marketing. With real-world case studies to illustrate digital marketing in practice and exercises to help you analyse, plan and execute effective strategies within the workplace, this practical resource will prepare you to undertake digital marketing across a variety of organizations. More than just a book, this complete package features an associated website at AlanCharlesworth.eu/DigitalMarketing which hosts the case studies for the book, offers further tips and advice and provides access to a wealth of extra material such as up-to-date references and web links. This new, second edition builds on the first edition’s success by addressing the key recent developments in digital marketing including an expanded section on social media marketing and an appreciation of the impact of mobile devices. Moreover, it’s been thoroughly updated throughout, with brand new cases and examples with an international range, all of which encourage the reader to quickly learn the practical applicability of the theory and practice of emarketing.




The Netpreneur Manifesto


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Everything You Need (And Don't Need) To Become A successful Digital Marketer And Save Yourself Time, MoneyAnd Frustration. It is really very simple: This book is intended to lay the blueprint for success for Newbies who are involved, or want to be involved, in Internet marketing, or more appropriately, those who want to make money online. While many people generally may have been slow to catch on to the internet marketing frenzy due to its structural and logistics handicaps, the trend in the last few years has shown a dramatic upsurge of interest of Newbies in the internet marketing industry. With liberation in internet access and mobile technology, we now have the perfect storm for an explosion in internet marketing activities globally. There is therefore an urgent need for a manifesto or explanatory document that will explain to practitioners in the internet marketing scene what is required to be a successful internet marketer globally