Internet World Guide to One-To-One Web Marketing (Paperback)

by Cliff Allen (Author), Deborah Kania (Author), Beth Yaeckel (Author)

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This comprehensive guide aims to help you successfully apply one-to-one marketing principles--developing secure relationships with customers--on the Internet. The book wades through all of the current interactive technologies--animation, 3-D, video, audio--and helps you distinguish what is useful to your site and what is just hype. Lessons show how you can use e-mail as a device for pulling people onto your site without having them feel as though they are being spammed. The guide emphasizes using personalization features and push technology, urging the use of innovative methods to collect information on customers. The authors also share tips on how companies can set up their own online communities, where customers can chat, and use these communities as marketing tools.

A detailed chapter on presentation and conferencing tools explains the different technologies to choose from and how to set up your presentation to meet your company's needs. You'll learn the different ways you can advertise and promote your product or company on the Web. You'll also find out how to track who's visiting the site and get more information about your customers. Internet World Guide to One-to-One Web Marketing explains how you can integrate databases with your Web site and use data mining and data warehousing to individualize customer profiles. The authors show example screen shots of sites that are following some of the principles they outline, and the book closes with a reassuring chapter on privacy concerns and some fun predictions for the future of Web marketing. --Cristina Vaamonde

Product Description
With the help of push, tracking, and analysis tools, audio-visual conferencing, and other cutting-edge technologies, marketers can now use the Web to develop long-term, highly profitable, one-to-one relationships with their most valued customers. This groundbreaking guide introduces a dynamic new marketing strategy and shows how to use the latest technologies and techniques to launch successful campaigns. .

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471251666
• ISBN-13: 978-0471251668
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,931,307 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Create Successful Relationship Marketing Strategies!, May 23, 1999

By A Customer

Internet World's guide to one-to-one Web marketing encourages readers to take a more personal approach to marketing one's products and services that will result in generating greater customer loyalty and repeat sales. According to the authors, developing meaningful relationships with clients through interactive Website marketing strategies and personal dialog can generate more fruitful returns!

The book is a literal goldmine of essential information that can be put to productive use. For instance, readers will find a number of Web technologies discussed that can be tailor-made to any client and given task situation. The authors demonstrate how Web conferencing and presentations can be used to enhance a client's overall business operation.

Readers will also learn how to gain and keep the attention of their customers through what is called "relationship marketing." The authors discuss a number of ways marketers can obtain information about clients and put it to use. Personalization of Websites, targeting strategies, and advertising technologies are thoroughly discussed.

The number of actual case studies and business profiles provided in the book help to demonstrate just how easy readers can become more successful at online marketing. The contributions of companies and authors cited in the book are of immense help to any business venture. Readers should wake up and take notice of what is going on around them in the business world. This book is must reading!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best One-To-One Guide there is!, December 13, 1998

By A Customer

I've been involved in web development for a number of years and was in the process of developing a one to one email newsletter site when I came across this book. It soon became a major resource. I found it one of the few to talk about the role of email in the one-to-one future. Allen's book stands out as being written from knowledge - its full of practical advice as well as good insite into the web. I couldn't recommend it more.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sound practical advice in Internet Marketing Strategies., November 19, 1998

By	Dr Jim Hamill ([e-mail]) (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews

This book provides sound practical advice concerning the development and implementation of effective Internet marketing strategies. Building on the pioneering work of McKenna; and Peppers and Rogers, the core hypothesis of the book is that effective use of the web - and other Internet based communications tools (e.g. e-mail; newsgroups etc) - allows even very small firms to build customer loyalty and relationships through one-to-one marketing, at low cost. The emphasis on relationship building presents a refreshing counter-balance to the 'build it and they will come' mass marketing approach adopted by many Internet marketing authors. The web is not a mass marketing tool. First, and foremost, it is a communications tool.

The book comprises twelve main chapters. Following two general introductory chapters presenting broad overviews of one-to-one web marketing and interactivity, the next nine chapters focus on specific aspects of one-to-one relationship building on the Net including, one-to-one e-mail; web site personalisation; one-to-one push strategies; web based communities; web conferencing; web advertising and promotion one-to-one; web tracking; marketing systems; and privacy issues. The final chapter considers the future of one-to-one web marketing.