Ultimate Guide to Platform Building


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Your business relies on you for its survival, and its life-blood is sales. Building a robust platform is the most effective and sustainable way to attract prospects and convert them into customers. Literary agent and expert platform consultant Wendy Keller shares the secrets behind how to select the right promotion strategies for your business, market your products and services, develop an enthusiastic customer base, and ultimately create a strong platform that distinguishes your business from the rest--all without spending a fortune. Keller provides you with platform-building methods that are practical, proven, and easily implemented by anyone, this book helps build your brand perception to: Develop content that converts fans into customers Create a platform strategy that multiplies your marketing efforts overnight Showcase your brand, product, or company and attract new opportunities




Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website


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Revised edition of the author's Ultimate guide to search engine optimization.




Ultimate Guide to Pinterest for Business


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With 4,000 percent growth in just six months, and currently millions of users, Pinterest delivers an unbelievable opportunity for business owners and marketers like you . . . if you know how to effectively use its visual appeal. Karen Leland acquaints you with this vibrant visual marketing medium covering: The ins and outs of signing up and getting started Building boards that get noticed, drive traffic, and convert fans into customers Creating a Pinterest community through power connections, contests, social media outreach, and smart pinning strategies Strategies for becoming a power Pinterest user and creating an enthusiastic following Best practices for pins that promote, including image optimization, consistent branding, social media integration, and high-value content Pinterest etiquette Learn to expand your business and brand’s success — one pin at a time.




Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business


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Are you ready to tap into Instagram’s booming network of 1.386 billion viable customers? Your customers are on Instagram right now waiting to buy from you. With this all-new updated Ultimate Guide to Instagram, Second Edition, social media marketing expert Kim Walsh Phillips highlights what’s new and innovative, and gives you the tools you need to get an immediate return on investment. From updated cross-platform branding and marketing advice, to all new practical blueprints for funneling followers, this guide unlocks the latest secrets successful entrepreneurs use to grow their following and drive sales directly from Instagram. Inside, readers will learn: To uncover who your right-fit customers are and how to find them easily on Instagram The secret new ways of going viral to grow your audience and multiply your sales. How to use the newest features of Instagram to drive more business quickly with a simple marketing funnel that works A new content creation formula to make creating content easy and effective. Copy-and-paste resources, and a simple roadmap gets you results fast and easy Brand-new up to date examples, marketing funnels and campaigns New features of Instagram featured; including stickers, stories, polls, and reels Whether you're new to the Instagram world or you're not sure how to get more out of your profile, this guide is the perfect tool for entrepreneurs ready to flood their business with sales. With this guide's easy-to-use strategies, easy-to-adapt blueprints, and other copy-and-paste resources, you'll unlock the power to become an Instagram Sales Machine!




Be the Brand


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If you want to learn how you can leverage and grow your personal brand, pick up this book. This book is a collection of short lessons - because I've learned that simplicity is key and - on ways to build the foundations of your personal brand, methods to growing your tribe, tips on monetizing your personal brand, and how to reinvent yourself constantly to be more in tune with your mission and your vision. The more you market yourself and treat yourself like a brand, the more successful you will be. Personal branding means building your reputation, growing your following, and constructing your name. Be the brand.




Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords


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Covering the latest breaking news in Google AdWords, the fifth edition introduces revised, expanded and new chapters covering Enhanced Campaigns, Google AdWord’s Express, Google’s Product Listing Ads, and the introduction to Google’s Universal Analytics. Nuances in Big Data advertising are also revealed and expanded sections and necessary updates have been added throughout. Updates specific to this edition include: Powerful bidding strategies using remarketing lists for search ads New ad extension features Automation capabilities using AdWords scripts Bonus Online Content that includes links to dozens of resources and tutorials covering: registering a domain name, setting up a website, selecting an email service, choosing a shopping cart service, finding products to sell, and starting up an Google AdWords account Readers are given the latest information paired with current screenshots, fresh examples, and new techniques. Coached by AdWords experts Perry Marshall, Mike Rhodes, and Bryan Todd advertisers learn how to build an aggressive, streamlined AdWords campaign proven to increase their search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks, double their website traffic, and increase their sales. Whether a current advertiser or new to AdWords, this guide is a necessary handbook.




Platform Strategy


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During the last decade, platform businesses such as Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and eBay have been taking over the world. In almost every sector, traditional businesses are under attack from digital disrupters that are effectively harnessing the power of communities. But what exactly is a platform business and why is it different? In Platform Strategy, Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier provide a practical guide for students, digital entrepreneurs and executives to understand what platforms are, how they work and how you can build one successfully. Using their own "rocket model" and original case studies (including Google, Apple, Amazon), they explain how designing, igniting and scaling a platform business requires learning a whole new set of management rules. Platform Strategy also offers many fascinating insights into the future of platforms, their regulation and governance, as well as how they can be combined with other business models. Benoit Reillier and Laure Claire Reillier are co-founders of Launchworks, a leading advisory firm focused on helping organizations develop and scale innovative business models.




Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business


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Find and Network with the Right Professionals You know it’s smart to connect with over 500 million business professionals on LinkedIn, but you may not know how to do it without wasting tons of time and money. LinkedIn expert and trainer Ted Prodromou delivers a step-by-step guide to using LinkedIn to grow your business, find profitable clients and customers, and hire the perfect employees. With more than a decade of experience helping businesses and entrepreneurs grow using SEO, pay-per-click management, and LinkedIn, Prodromou shares the most effective ways to keep you and your business in front of decision makers and build strong referral networks. You'll learn how to: Make online connections that are as strong as those made in person Use content marketing to build and promote your thought leadership profile Build trust with prospective clients by exploring similar interests and groups Develop a closing process that convert connections to clients Leverage your LinkedIn presence to drive you and your business to the top of the results page on multiple search engines—even Google As the definitive social network for people doing business, entrepreneurs ignore LinkedIn at their own peril. Take the direct approach to reaching the movers and shakers by listening to what Ted has to say. —Joel Comm, New York Times bestselling author of Twitter Power 3.0: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a TimeIf you want to know the behind-the-scenes, real-world strategies, you need to read this book filled with applicable tips and tricks to save you time and money, and to give you a roadmap to actually making money on LinkedIn. —Scott Keffer, bestselling author and founder of Double Your Affluent Clients®







The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management


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In this step by step guide, former Management Consultant and change management expert Theodore Panagacos walks you through the entire discipline of Business Process Management. Learn how to fast track your orgnaization's strategy to govern processes, create a process culture, and measure business performance. Best of all, this crystal-clear, convenient sized book can be put to work in your organization immediately!