Everyone in business today knows that the Internet is one of the fastest growing mediums ever developed, but unfortunately everyone is looking for the Rosetta Stone that will show them what is to come and how they should position their businesses for whatever the future holds for the Net. This work seeks to answer some of these questions. Jesse Berst writes from the point of view that the future of the Net will be profoundly changed by such things as cheap PCs, ubiquitous handhelds, voice and gesture recognition, anytime/anywhere wireless connectivity, global positioning, home networks, and more. Like other Net gurus and guides, Berst provides a snapshot of the Net and current tendencies, and extrapolates them to the horizon. Unlike others, he gives readers techniques they can use to predict what's coming next in time to prepare and profit. The "magnet effect" is the ability to attract and retain an audience. He explains how to spot the first domino in a technology chain, and then he shows how once that domino falls, there is a predictable sequence of events that will follow. This is all essential, he says, for putting the "magnet effect" in place.
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The Virtuous Cycle of Marketing for and on the Internet,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 109,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER)
This review is from: The Magnet Effect: Attracting and Retaining an Audience on the Internet Today, Tomorrow, and in the Future (Hardcover)
This book is designed to help people plan their marketing who want to establish or maintain an Internet-based business. Mr. Berst is the author of the leading on-line newsletter, which adds legitimacy to his description of marketing best practices to date for Internet-based businesses. In this book, he describes the best ways that audiences have been developed into long-term business supporters. The book is enlivened by sample pages from many well-known Internet sites. While much of what he writes will not be new to the reader, the way he stitches it together may well be. The first step is to use a magnet of rich media (such as through television advertising) to attract an audience. He feels that this should precede knowing exactly what you want to do with the audience. In fact, he argues that your offerings should match the audience you are able to attract economically. This is quite contrary to traditional marketing thinking, but certainly worked out well for his example companies, Amazon and Yahoo! He suggests six familiar elements for making your magnet work: (1) content that is rich and constantly changing (eBay) (2) community that adds value to one another (Amazon product reviews) (3) commerce ("actionable content" -- usually this is something you can buy) (4) convenience (RealNetworks enables streaming videos and audios from one site) (5) customization (Yahoo! and Excite) (6) communication (CD Now) Second, you should use spiral marketing to retain your audience with enriched media and the Web. Rich media (like television) creates the intent. Then your Web site creates involvement. You use "opt-in" e-mail to create interaction. That interaction then leads to commerce for your business. Done properly, each element reinforces the next one, creating a virtuous cycle of prosperity for your business. Third, you do as much permission e-mail as your audience is aided by and appreciates. This should focus on time-sensitive material, information that people will want to refer to again and again, and a format that is fun and free. Mr. Berst's newsletter uses all of these methods. He sites Guru as a site that fits this pattern. The final element of the model is to predict which technology trends will impact your business. While the preceding information will probably seem like old hat to most Web veterans, this section contained much that was new. I found it to be the best discussion of how to evaluate competing future technologies that I have seen in print. If you only read chapter 7 on this subject, you will be well rewarded for your efforts in acquiring and using this book. You will gain a paradigm for evaluating technologies in this chapter that will serve you well for the rest of your life. After you have finished reading the book, let me suggest that you think about how the model could be employed in less expensive ways. Television advertising is especially expensive. Why not do event marketing using your own events or by sponsoring other people's events? Creating fresh material is very expensive. How can you use your community to do it inexpensively for you? You get the idea, I'm sure. As wonderful as best practices have been, there's always a gigantic opportunity for improvement. Although Mr. Berst did not look too hard at that question, you certainly can.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A Good Read!,
This review is from: The Magnet Effect: Attracting and Retaining an Audience on the Internet Today, Tomorrow, and in the Future (Hardcover)
Create a product. Find someone to buy it. That's a pattern that's been pretty consistent since the beginning of civilization. But popular technology guru Jesse Berst says that the Internet has reversed this eternal sequence of commerce. The new logic: Build an audience and then find something to sell to it. That concept is at the core of The Magnet Effect, a brief, hands-on guide to Internet business and marketing. The book illuminates the strategies and tools that have come to define the Internet play, intelligently making a case as to why companies like Amazon.com are worth their multi-billion-dollar valuations even as they are hemorrhaging cash. Berst combines a broad, strategic overview and direct how-to advice in an effective manner that allows us at getAbstract.com to recommend this book to both e-commerce veterans and Internet neophytes.
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The crash rebounded, we like this author,
By Gregory Simon (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Magnet Effect: Attracting and Retaining an Audience on the Internet Today, Tomorrow, and in the Future (Hardcover)
For those who were smart enough to listen to the author and not be blinded by short-term fads and fear, the "crash" has rebounded, and thanks to advice that can be found in this book, those who stuck it out are now ahead of the game, taking a few new cautions, donning a slightly new business suit, gaining ground with weblogs, but are climbing back again. Those who were not smart enough are, well, apparently too "dumb" and too busy "rehashing" a wining viewpoint on the world to have what it takes to see something great straight through minor crashes. Seeing the "crash" as permanent is as stupid as seeing a lull in real estate as permanent. It always rebounds. We're very grateful to this author.
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