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Cashing In With Content : How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers.
Title:
Cashing In With Content : How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers.
Author:
Scott, David Meerman.
ISBN:
9781937290269
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: When Words Collide -- Introduction: Content: The Missing Ingredient -- Selecting Content-Smart Sites -- Asked and Answered-Marketing on the Web -- The Web Isn't TV -- Branding Is for Cattle -- The New Publishers -- Getting the Most Out of this Book -- Part 1: E-Commerce -- Chapter One: Crutchfield: A Friend in the Electronics Business -- Turning Complexity into Opportunity -- A Little Friendly Advice -- Car Stereo for Everyone -- Creating Content That Sells -- Customer Feedback -- Cashing In -- Chapter Two: Alloy: Generation Y Marks the Spot -- Like, Keep It Fresh -- Quizzes, Guys, and Style -- I Wanna Go to the Mall.com -- Cool? Click. Buy. -- Cashing In -- Chapter Three: Design Within Reach: Form Follows Function -- Going Against the Grain -- Please Take a Seat -- Newsletter of Note -- Cashing In -- Chapter Four: mediabistro.com: Pitching Content to the Media -- Online Community for the Media -- Media Community -- Media Content to Sell Media Services -- Cashing In -- Chapter Five: Esurance: Content Replaces Agents -- Great Content as a Marketing Tool -- Driving Traffic to Auto Insurance Content -- Content Drives Transactions -- Ensuring Compelling Content -- Cashing In -- Chapter Six: Aerosmith: Content for Extreme Fans -- Not the Same Old Song and Dance -- Walk This Way -- Roadies, Managers, and the Chef -- A Band and its Fanatic Fans -- Aerosmith, the Brand -- Cashing In -- Chapter Seven: The Wall Street Journal Online: Free Content Sells Subscriptions -- Selling Subscriptions with Free Content -- Not Your Father's Newspaper -- Cashing In -- Part 2: Business-to-Business -- Chapter Eight: Alcoa: Content Drives Large Deals -- It All Starts with Dirt -- Bright, Shiny Content -- The Good Guys -- Crafting the Content -- Cashing In.

Chapter Nine: Weyerhaeuser: Managing Trees with Internet Content -- Seeing the Forest for the Trees -- Content with Priorities -- Excellent Corporate Neighbors -- Growing (Content) Like a Tree -- Cashing In -- Chapter Ten: ebuild: Everything for the Professional Builder, Including the Kitchen Sink -- Building ebuild One Room at a Time -- My Bucket Is Your Taxonomy -- Tagging Content Makes It Useful -- Cashing In -- Chapter Eleven: ServiceWare: Level the Playing Field with Content -- Are You a Call Center or a Help Desk? -- Hard Data and Useful Information -- If You Have Great Content, Get It Out There -- Cashing In -- Chapter Twelve: Colliers: Commercial Real Estate for the World -- Content from Warsaw to Sydney -- Real Content from All Over -- Cashing In -- Chapter Thirteen: Booz Allen: Career Content -- The Right Fit for You? -- We Want You to Work Here -- Please Complete Your Profile -- Career Content Creation -- Cashing In -- Chapter Fourteen: UPS Investor Relations: Delivering Stock -- Airplanes and Those Funny Brown Trucks -- Environmentally Friendly -- On-Time Delivery -- Cashing In -- Part 3: Nonprofit, Education, Healthcare, and Politics -- Chapter Fifteen: CARE USA: Content Fights Global Poverty -- Content to Drive Donations -- Comprehensive Content in a Soundbite World -- Get Involved with Content -- Cashing In -- Chapter Sixteen: Tourism Toronto: Hit the Site and Hit the Town -- Individuals, Groups, and Conventions -- Content to Book Trips -- Recovering from SARS -- Content Voyage -- Interactivity and Small Bits of Content -- Cashing In -- Chapter Seventeen: Kenyon College: A Literary Tradition on the Web -- The Right Way to Rebuild a Web Site -- A Site That Speaks to All Constituents -- Literary Content -- Cashing In -- Chapter Eighteen: Sharp Healthcare: Putting Patients in Control with Content -- I Need to Know Fast.

Viral Healthcare Content -- Healthy Demographics -- Creating Compelling Healthcare Content -- Cashing In -- Chapter Nineteen: Dermik Laboratories: More than Skin-Deep Content -- Aggregating the Best of Available Content -- Maintain Integrity -- Drive Interest in the Category -- The Right Stuff -- Cashing In -- Chapter Twenty: Dean for America: Internet Presidential Politics-The New Grassroots -- Introducing the Presidential Blog -- Making Readers Feel They Have a Stake -- Meetup with Other Supporters -- Internet Content: The New Grassroots -- Cashing In -- Part 4: Putting Content to Work -- Chapter Twenty-One: Best Practices from Innovative Web Marketers -- Marketing with Web Content -- Best Practice #1: When launching a new site, start with a comprehensive needs analysis -- Best Practice #2: Speak with one voice to create a consistent site personality -- Best Practice #3: Dedicate editorial resources to create consistent and informed content -- Best Practice #4: Encourage browsing by using appropriate self-select paths -- Best Practice #5: A separate URL or blog facilitates providing targeted content -- Best Practice #6: Push content to users to pull them back to your site -- Best Practice #7: Don't forget images-original photos are powerful content -- Best Practice #8: Consider making proprietary content freely available -- Best Practice #9: If you serve a global market, use global content -- Best Practice #10: Include interactive content and opportunities for user-feedback -- Best Practice #11: Use content to trigger viral marketing -- Best Practice #12: Link content directly to the sales cycle -- Practices Make Perfect -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Lessons Learned -- You're a Publisher Now, So Think Like One -- Make Content the Focus of Your Site -- Focus on Your Customer's Problems -- A Web Site Is More Art than Science -- Content Drives Action.

A Special Note to Executives -- What Content Means to Marketers -- About the Author -- Index -- More from Information Today, Inc.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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