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Mar
08Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd
Filed in: Cool Stuff by Andrew on 03-08-10
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up.
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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition
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Mar
07Streetwise eCommerce: Establish Your Online Business, Expand
Filed in: Cool Stuff by Andrew on 03-07-10
Today, a strong Web presence is standard business practice. Now you too can attain maximum exposure and truly succeed. An effective cyber-strategy is your company’s ticket to a whole new venue of sales and exposure. Don’t get shut out of the burgeoning e-marketplace. Get involved!
In Streetwise eCommerce, Web guru Aliza Risdahl shows you how to maximize your digital presence. With the strategies, tools, and knowledge packed into this ultimate guide, your company will be Internet ready in no time. Risdahl walks you through the ins and outs of becoming an effective Web force and teaches you how to:
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Streetwise eCommerce is your guide to selling and marketing on the Internet. Tap into the ultimate online resource to make your presence known-and your profits soar!
Aliza Risdahl was voted as one of Newsweek’s “Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet” and is a leader in Internet marketing and entrepreneurship. Ms. Risdahl founded the first woman-owned, full-service Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc. She is the author of four books and is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur, Home Business, and Professional Woman. She lives in Anchorage, AK.
Streetwise eCommerce: Establish Your Online Business, Expand Your Reach, and Watch Your Profits Soar! (Adams Streetwise Series)
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M:MARKETING is the newest Principles of Marketing textbook on the market, and was created with students’ and professors’ needs in mind. The content is the same as in the hard bound Grewal/Levy 1/e, except that a few of the chapters are combined. Students receive a cost-effective, easy to read text complete with study resources (both print and online) to help them review for tests and apply chapter concepts. Professors receive a text that contains all the pertinent information we know they cover in Principles of Marketing – yet in a more condensed format that is easier for students to cover. It also contains gradable online assignments for instructors to assign. MARKETING also includes comprehensive teaching support and online supplements.
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With coverage of current marketing practices and exciting new features Lamb, Hair, McDaniel’s MARKETING 10e will have your students saying, “Now that’s marketing.” You experience marketing through billboards, television commercials, and even in the cereal aisle at the grocery store. MARKETING 10e with its engaging presentation of concepts will bring forward how much the principles of marketing play a role in your day to day lives, even when you don’t recognize it.
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Mar
03Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and
Filed in: Cool Stuff by Andrew on 03-03-10
Stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in
Traditional “outbound” marketing methods like cold-calling, email blasts, advertising, and direct mail are increasingly less effective. People are getting better at blocking these interruptions out using Caller ID, spam protection, TiVo, etc. People are now increasingly turning to Google, social media, and blogs to find products and services. Inbound Marketing helps you take advantage of this change by showing you how to get found by customers online.
Inbound Marketing is a how-to guide to getting found via Google, the blogosphere, and social media sites.
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• Build and promote a blog for your business
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The rules of marketing have changed, and your business can benefit from this change. Inbound Marketing shows you how to get found by more prospects already looking for what you have to sell.
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media)
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Mar
03The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own
Filed in: Cool Stuff by Andrew on 03-03-10
Two world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors present the definitive rules of marketing.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
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