TUMBLR FOR BUSINESS: The Ultimate Guide


Book Description

The world is changing. The way we do business, the way we shop, the way we socialize and the way we run successful marketing campaigns In Tumblr for Business, Gabriela Taylor, an expert in online marketing and social media, shows you not only how Tumblr can be used to showcase your brand to a worldwide audience, but also how to create social buzz and take your business to the next level. Amazon reviewer Andrew David states, "Gabriela Taylor really knows how to keep things simple but detailed, which I liked because I did not know what I was doing at the start." If your customer demographics skew young, your business and Tumblr could be a perfect match, since half of Tumblr's users are under 25. There are 100+ million Tumblr blogs and only 67+ million sites running on WordPress. The popular website, valued at $1 billion plus, allows the use of multimedia and can brag of 13 billion global page views in just one recent month and 75 million posts daily. "This book is really a soup to nuts guide on how to register for and set up a Tumblr blog to advanced Tumblr marketing strategies for your product or service,"says Amazon reviewer Jennie Zahn. "Gabriela Taylor also provides other ways to use Tumblr to make money. Is it the ultimate guide? I'd have to say Yes. It's the best guide I've read for Tumblr. There's a thoughtful comparison of Tumblr and other social media sites like Facebook & Twitter." Zahn also liked the "step-by-step instructions to set up and enhance a Tumblr site. There's also great information on how to integrate other tools and features with Tumblr. . . .I thought the best part covered advanced strategies and monetization. Taylor writes clearly and is obviously an expert Tumblr user. I also think the book is underpriced for what you get. I'd highly recommend it for anyone considering using Tumblr at any level."




The Career Manifesto


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An action-oriented guide to help anyone find their calling and achieve their goals, inspired by the author's popular blog post with the same title The Career Manifesto presents an inspiring and refreshingly simple approach to finding your passion and purpose and then jumpstarting a dream career to achieve those, by asking three essential questions: - What do you want your impact to be? - What are the potential pathways that move you towards your purpose? - How can you hold yourself accountable for your goals? Award-winning CEO of XO Group and sought-after speaker, Michael Steib, draws on his own diverse work experience and career highlights as well as powerful anecdotes from other successful business leaders to offer expert guidance, field-tested advice, and interactive exercises that will help you answer these three key questions, envision a goal and then craft and execute a plan to achieve it. For young professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives seeking more purpose and meaning in their work and lives, The Career Manifesto is the essential way to build--and follow through on--an effective plan to excel at whatever job, project or career goal you put your mind to.




Build & Market Your Business with Google


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How can your business make the most of the vast array of tools that Google has to offer? There is no doubt that we have a massive reliance on Google for our entire online experience. People worldwide are googling more than a billion times a day to find information, but Google is not just the world's number one search engine. It offers a raft of services from the familiar YouTube to others you may not know about. Let Gabriela Taylor, an online marketing pro certified in AdWords and Analytics, save you time and money by explaining everything Google has to offer and how to take advantage of it. You'll learn how to: Set up for Success with Google's Productivity Tools: Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive & Chrome Gather Internet Intelligence: Keyword Planner, Google Suggest, Related Searches, AdPlanner, Finance & Google Trends Establish an Online Presence: Blogger, Sites, Wallet & Shopping Understand the Power of SEO and the Keys to Findability Expand Your Online Presence and Interact with Your Community: Google+, YouTube & News Grow Your Business with Paid Advertising: AdWords Monetize Your Content: AdSense Feature On Daily Deals: Google Offers Monitor Brand, Industry and Competitors: Google Alerts Track, Measure and Improve: Analytics & Webmaster Tools "The amount of information about utilizing Google that this book contains is amazing," says one reviewer. "This is the be-all-end-all guide for business owners, both small and large, in terms of how to use Google to your advantage and build up your site. It contains everything from how to set up pay-per-click ads, how to get featured as a Daily Deal, and how to expand your business through targeted ads and interaction with your online community. Any business, from a brand new upstart to a major brand name, could benefit from the information in this book and you'd be crazy not to make the investment in buying it. Extremely valuable and highly recommended."




Advertising in a Digital Age - Best Practices & Tips for Paid Search and Social Media Advertising


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Best Practices & Tips for Paid Search and Social Media Advertising If your customers are spending more and more time online, why aren’t you advertising there? Do you think it’s too expensive, too confusing, too hard to reach your target market? If your business is already active online, is it getting enough bang for its bucks? Let an online marketing expert teach you the secrets of advertising online to achieve business goals. Discover just how inexpensive it can be to advertise digitally. Use Online Advertising to: Reach more people while spending less Interact with your community Collect feedback and monitor results in real-time Make real-time adjustments Target and re-target your messages for relevancy Online Advertising has revolutionized how marketers target and capture audiences; don’t be left behind.Advertising in a Digital Age can help you understand this market so you use your advertising budget more effectively and get as much free advertising as possible.




Give Your Marketing a Digital Edge - A 10-Book Bundle Special Edition


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She has done the hard work of evaluating and learning how to use all the different online sites and tools that can help your business soar, and she has combined that knowledge into Give Your Marketing a Digital Edge, an inexpensive 10 titles in two books that you'll refer to again and again. Here's what the Give Your Marketing a Digital Edge includes: Budget Marketing - How to Start & Market an Online Business with Little or Zero Marketing Budget: why pay for online tools when there are fantastic free ones available that will help your business for absolutely nothing? Targeting Your Market - Marketing Across Generations, Cultures & Gender: marketing by demographics can be as simple as not advertising baby diapers on a site aimed at Baby Boomers. But the truth is there's a lot more to know if you want to maximize business success and avoid blunders. Plan, Create, Optimize, Distribute - Your Strategic Roadmap to Content Marketing Success: by mastering content marketing, you can connect with customers on a personal level, build a relationship, call your audience to action, and provide a platform for customer feedback. Google Best Practices - How to Build and Market Your Business with Google: YouTube, Google+, Google+ Local, Google News, Google SEO, AdWords, AdSense, etc. - this book tells you how you can make money using everything Google has to offer. Socialize to Monetize - How To Run Effective Social Media Campaigns across the Top 25 Social Networking Sites: by mastering content marketing, you can connect with customers on a personal level, build a relationship, call your audience to action, and provide a platform for customer feedback. Pinterest Marketing - The Ultimate Guide: if your customers are on Pinterest, you need to be there too! Leverage the power of visual marketing with one of the best tools ever invented to increase sales for your business. Tumblr for Business - The Ultimate Guide: learn how to use Tumblr to showcase your brand to a worldwide audience, create social buzz, and take your business to the next level. Advertising in a Digital Age - Best Practices for AdWords and Social Media Advertising: learn how to use online advertising to reach more people, interact with your community, collect feedback and monitor results in real-time, adjust your advertising quickly, and target and retarget your messages for relevancy all on a tiny budget. Mobilize to Monetize - The Fast Track to Effective Mobile Marketing: when you use mobile technology to promote a brand and its products and services anytime, from anywhere, you can target your messages based on information you already have and engage your customers directly. Globalize to Monetize - Taking Your Online Business to New Markets: marketing globally requires cultural understanding and overcoming barriers of language and culture are crucial to successfully market globally.




The Ultimate Guide to Starting an Internet Business


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This book is about today's fast-paced digital world, the online business landscape is constantly evolving. As job seekers looking to start an internet business, it is crucial to understand the various aspects of this dynamic environment. From e-commerce websites to digital marketing services, there are endless opportunities to explore and capitalize on.




Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business


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Reel in the Profits with YouTube YouTube delivers more than a billion minutes of streaming content to 1.3 billion active users every day. That's equivalent to one-third of all internet users and at least a billion reasons to start creating videos that promote your business, brand, products, and services today. Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business is the video marketing blueprint you need to create videos that educate, entertain, and inspire viewers to take action. You'll learn how to plan, edit, promote, and share your videos with the public, as well as how to leverage YouTube's tools to help spotlight your business and your products without spending a fortune. From video production to promotion, this guide shares the battle-tested strategies and tried-and-true advice from successful YouTube experts to help you: Set up your channel and become a YouTube Partner to start monetizing your videos Create a virtual community that uses and loves your products Cater your videos to your target audience at every stage—pre-production, production, post-production, and promotion Drive traffic to your channel, website, or social media with optimized video titles, tags, playlists, and more Promote your YouTube videos using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social sites Make a video go viral with the help of blogs, websites, and other online resources Find out what a YouTube channel can do for you as you learn to create your channel, leverage it as a marketing tool, and maximize your return on investment.




Ultimate Guide to Twitter for Business


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Who should you follow? How many people should you follow? How often should you tweet? Most people don’t get Twitter. Longtime internet guru Ted Prodromou shows you how to become someone who does. Set to prove that 140 characters or less and a hashtag can dramatically grow your brand and your business, Prodromou takes you step by step into the Twitterverse and shows you how to tweet your way to the top of your industry.




Communications


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Improving communication is one of the most important – and challenging – issues that management accountants face. In a global survey of CFOs, Ernst & Young said: "Despite two thirds of respondents saying that increasingly they act as the public face of the organization, most point to communication and influencing as the most important area for improvement." In this publication you will learn: How do management accountants know if they are effectively communicating? What are the most effective techniques for improving their communication skills? This book is specifically designed to meet the needs and interests of management accountants. It draws on interviews with finance professionals at every level of corporate accounting, as well as with communication consultants, executive recruiters and educators. It looks at how management accountants communicate inside and outside their organizations, identifies best practices, and gives hands-on strategies that accountants can use right away. Readers will discover how to: Move their current communication skills to a higher level. Recognize the importance of communication within the context of their financial manager function. Understand the right way to deliver bad news and resolve conflicts. Manage the impact of new technologies on traditional communication channels. Develop the skills to use active listening as the foundation for positive communication tactics.




Pinfluence


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How to effectively use Pinterest to market your business, product, or service Pinterest, the rapidly growing social networking site that allows users to post and share images and videos on "pinboards" (a collection of “pins,” usually with a common theme), is providing businesses and savvy entrepreneurs with a new platform to market their products and services. And, as with any new platform, learning what works best and what doesn’t when it comes to marketing can be a challenge. Pinfluence is a complete guide to Pinterest marketing that will teach you how to effectively raise awareness for your brand, product, or service, drive traffic from Pinterest to your website, and connect with current and potential customers. You will learn: How to create a powerful Pinterest profile, your Pinterest brand strategy, set up boards, pin and repin images, and get into conversations in the Pinterest user interface. Pinterest marketing techniques, including great content creation, how to optimize websites and blogs for pinning, and how to start growing your followers. How to integrate Pinterest with other social media tools (including Facebook, Twitter, and blogs) and how to track trends and monitor conversation on Pinterest. Advanced Pinterest marketing techniques, including how to grow your audience, how to use the Pinterest iPhone app, advice for special types of businesses (B2B companies and nonprofits), and how to make your pins and boards “sticky” so they capture public attention and influence people to change their behavior. Pinterest copyright issues Pinfluence is for anyone who wants to join the likes of companies like Whole Foods, Gilt, West Elm and others, and harness the marketing power of Pinterest to grow their business.