Cashing in with Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers Into Buyers

by David Meerman Scott, Michelle Manafy (Foreword)

Sharing the secrets of today's most innovative marketers, this book shows how marketers use content to turn Web browsers into buyers, encourage repeat business, and unleash the amazing power of viral marketing. Presented are proven content solutions through a series of in-depth interviews with top marketing pros at 20 of the most successful organizations on the Web today. Their strategies and techniques for using great content to get site visitors to buy, subscribe, apply, join, contribute, return, and recommend are revealed. Additional analysis is provided to help any Web marketer put the most appropriate, effective content marketing solutions to work at their organization. The organizations discussed include The Wall Street Journal Online, Weyerhaeuser, Alcoa, United Parcel Service, Tourism Toronto, and CARE USA.

Genres: Business

280 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Our always-on, Web-driven world has new rules for competing and growing business. Advance planning is out – agile is IN! Those who embrace new ways will be far more successful than those who stay who stay stuck and afraid to change. No one knows more about using the new Real-Time tools and strategies to spread ideas, influence minds and build business than David Meerman Scott. It’s his specialty.

He’s a sales and marketing strategist who has spoken on all seven continents and in 40 countries to audiences of the most respected firms, organizations and associations.

David is author or co-author of ten books - three are international bestsellers. He is best known for The New Rules of Marketing & PR, now in its 6th edition, which has been translated into 29 languages and is a modern business classic with over 400,000 copies sold so far. David also authored Real-Time Marketing & PR, a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is co-author of Marketing the Moon (with Rich Jurek) and Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead (with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan).

Reviews

[Annalisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slightly outdated but the information itself is helpful.