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eMarketing eXcellence, Third Edition: Planning and optimising your digital marketing (Emarketing Essentials)

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e-Marketing eXcellence, third addition, covers the entire scope of e-Marketing:
Objectives - Do you want to sell? build a brand? talk to and or serve customers?
e-Models - e-commerce, communications, online revenue, web2.0.
e-Customers - Who are they? why do they/don't they buy online? how do they buy? how do you build relationships with them? how do they communicate with each other?
Tools - Not just the internet! iDTV, Digital Radio, Mobile etc.
Site design - Establishing the purpose of the site, best practice design, navigation, structure and copywriting.
Traffic building - SEM, display advertising, e-mail, viral, PR.
CRM - Developing lasting relationships with your customers - database marketing, profiling and personalisation.
e-Business - From value chains to value networks; an analysis what's involved in setting up and managing an e-Business.

The main body text is well written, and the depth of coverage for each topic is just right for a book this size.

Throughout the book you'll find the following boxes:
e-Marketing Excellence - Real world case studies of how large corporations have used the topic being discussed in that part of the book.
Practical/Best Practice e-Marketing tip - Specifics on how you can use the topic being discussed in your own e-marketing campaigns.
e-Marketing Insight - Views from corporations, technology providers (e.g. Google), e-Marketing experts to get you thinking in multiple directions.
The book is also littered throughout with high quality charts, graphics and screenshots of actual websites, all in colour, to give you actual examples of how these techniques are being used.

This third edition of the book has extensive coverage on the latest trends in e-Marketing - viral marketing, web2.0 approaches such as social networking and online PR.

One of the highlights of this book, for me, is thorough coverage of the SOSTAC® approach to e-Marketing planning. Created by Paul Smith (who is a co-author of this book), the model provides a structured framework for building your e-Marketing plans. The model can be applied to projects from small to massive. The book concentrates on how to apply the SOSTAC® model specifically to e-Marketing. Essential reading for anyone involved in writing e-Marketing plans.

This book has broadened my knowledge of e-Marketing in a way that I would not have been able to do so without it. I found myself constantly thinking in new directions when reading it. I now have an appreciation of many more aspects of what's involved when planning for, implementing, and testing e-Marketing campaigns, and I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone involved in all aspects (strategizing, managing, implementing) of e-Marketing. The book also serves as an excellent resource for the e-Marketing student.

Increasing your understanding of digital marketing can be quite an intimidating exercise. There are a mass of books a on the subject each professing to have the best route to developing your skills. In my opinion eMarketing Excellence is probably the most accessible and comprehensive of the books around.

It is pretty clear from the opening chapters that the authors have been able to draw on their experience both as practitioners and as trainers. The sections are discretely and logically titled and subtitled. Each chapter has very clear boxed sections providing insights and real-world examples -importantly drawn from both B2C and B2B environments - and the chapters close with useful summaries.

The book's target market is probably new marketers or those already in marketing but looking to add digital to their skill set, but It's examples and breadth make it just as interesting to those already familiar with the digital arena. Particularly useful in this regard are the chapters that include aspects of planning, strategy and measurement.

This isn't a sit down and read on one session book, but more like the manual you leave on your desk or have close to hand so you can dip in and out.

The book was well written and appplies mostly to the UK for examples and figures. No dollar figures so be prepared. The book has many good points and you will learn something from it for sure. I was happy with the purchase and would recommend the book to anyone looking to gain starter knowledge of e-commerce and e-business. There is a difference.

Digital marketing is really starting to become scientific these days and people like Dave Chaffey and PR Smith are the scientists.

This book is extremely comprehensive, covering everything you possibly could think of in the space. If it isn't here it probably isn't worth remembering. There are detailed sections on email marketing, search, multi-channel marketing, CRM, E-Commerce and much more. Analytics is well covered throughout which is important to remember when running any form of marketing campaign.

It is a manual structured to help self learning in my opinion on how you would do eMarketing well. For the student and digital marketing newbie it would be very good reference material for planning and developing new campaigns.

For the expert there is a lot that can be learned from the methodologies the authors display, such as the SOSTAC planning system. It's useful to follow a method and SOSTAC is one such way to plan your processes effectively. Read chapter 10 for more information.

I rarely give 5 star reviews for anything but there is little to criticize in this book. It's long with over 470 pages but that is because it has a lot of detail and the way the chapters are written with good checklists and insight points means you can get to the meat quickly if you need to.

In short, a good book.