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(More customer reviews)This book was a little better than OK, but I can't say that I particularly liked it. I'd love to rate it a 3.5 star, but I have to give it either a 4 or a 3. Well, I'll throw it a bone - voila! It gets a 4. The book has five sections and 19 chapters as follows:
I. What's new online? (1&2)
II. A new mindset (3-6)
III. Developing your 7-step action plan (7-15)
IV. Completed plan and beyond (16-19)
V. Appendix (A&B)
1. What's important to today's Web marketer?
2. Changing roles
3. Creativity and innovation
4. Think like a direct response copywriter
5. You're a publisher now!
6. Your new social media Web site
7. The 7-step action plan
8. Step 1: Niche
9. Step 2: Brand
10. Step 3: Story
11. Step 4: Search
12. Step 5: Content
13. Step 6: Tactics - Social Media
14. Step 6: Tactics - Tried and true
15. Step 7: Results
16. Putting it all together
17. Let the message work for you
18. Collaboration with colleagues and customers
19. Tracking your success
A. Bibliography
B. Worksheets
I loved Chapter 5 on being an infopreneur. But I would have liked more coverage on emailing, ebooks, webinars, and teleseminars.
The author has her own online marketing and design company called "Digital Media Works, Inc" which you can easily find by doing a Google search for that name. I was about as impressed with her company Web site as I was impressed with her book. Clearly this book is a marketing piece for her company.
It surprised me that a book on Internet Marketing only devoted one chapter (Chapter 6) to the ins and outs of designing a Web site. And it surprised me that a book on Internet Marketing that included a bibliography did not include more books (and current ones at that) on Internet Marketing. Chapter 14 covers email sigs, article marketing, online press releases, and ezines.
If you are interested in Social Media Marketing, then this book is one you may want to take a look at. It does a reasonble job discussing the subject. I was surprised there was not a chapter on blogging just after Chapter 6. I would have included a chapter on blogging there. Then at Chapter 13 I would have gone into marketing tactics used when blogging. I was surprised there was not a chapter on social networks (Linked In, MySpace, Facebook, etc.) just after Chapter 6. I would have included a chapter there on the social networking sites, and then at Chapter 13 I would have gone into the marketing tactics used when doing social networking. None of this was done. 3.5 stars!
PS. Other books I have read on this subject which have received favorable reviews from me on Amazon are: "The New Influencers" (ISBN: 1884956653), "Marketing to the Social Web" (ISBN: 0470124172), "The Age of Engage" (ISBN: 0979802806), and "Marketing in the New Media" (ISBN: 1551807319). None of these books were cited in the bibliography included in the instant book being reviewed.
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