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Think of an iAd as a micro-app contained within an app on a user’s iPhone or iPad that they’ve downloaded from the App Store. When the user taps your advert’s banner it bursts into life filling the entire screen of their device.

iAd Beginner’s Guide takes you through the start to finish process of building rich, compelling, interactive iAds. You will learn to create beautiful multi-page ads with store finders, social sharing, 3D images and video galleries.

You will create ads that utilize the powerful technologies in the iPhone to make your brand shine. Once you have engaged the user you can carry out targeted advertising campaigns with location-based coupons, store finders and social engagement. Using the iTunes Store you will see how it’s even possible to add one-click digital content purchasing right within your ad. Learn how iAd producer manages all the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 behind your iAd. You will be creating emotive, gripping and effective mobile advertising campaigns in no time.

What you will learn from this book

• Create full-screen HTML5 banners for the iPad.
• Prepare and optimize your content and media for mobile delivery, so your ads work efficiently and load faster on low-power devices.
• Create ads using Apple’s templates, which give you pre-built functionality in your ad Download Now »

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In the past few years, we’ve seen many data products based on predictive modeling. These products range from weather forecasting to recommendation engines like Amazon’s. Prediction technology can be interesting and mathematically elegant, but we need to take the next step: going from recommendations to products that can produce optimal strategies for meeting concrete business objectives.

We already know how to build these products: they’ve been in use for the past decade or so, but they’re not as common as they should be. This report shows how to take the next step: to go from simple predictions and recommendations to a new generation of data products with the potential to revolutionize entire industries.

Table of Contents

• Objective-based data products
• The Model Assembly Line: A case study of Optimal Decisions Group
• Drivetrain Approach to recommender systems
• Optimizing lifetime customer value
• Best practices from physical data products
• The future for data products

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If you have a website, a blog, or even a Facebook or Twitter presence, you are a publisher. Think like one: build a digital content strategy that embraces words, images and multimedia to systematically enhance consumer engagement and conversion rates. In Content Marketing, world-renowned digital content expert Rebecca Lieb offers all the detailed, actionable guidance you’ll need. Lieb guides you through planning what you’ll say online, how and where you’ll say it, how often you’ll communicate, and how you’ll measure your effectiveness. She offers practical guidance for “listening” to conversations about your brand, products, and services, responding more effectively, and effectively informing those conversations.

You’ll learn how to use your digital content strategy to shape marketing, branding, PR, SEO, customer and media relations, blog content, social media initiatives, and of course, your website. Lieb drills down to offer detailed, actionable advice for issues such as choosing distribution channels making sure you don’t run out of things to say making your content “findable” promoting two-way dialogue. Using her techniques, you can market far more effectively and personally build loyalty as you inform and entertain customers and reduce or even eliminate advertising costs. Think about it: why buy media when, today, you are the media?

Table of Contents
1. What’s Content Marketing, Anyway?
2. Why Is Content Important Now?
3. You’re a Publisher: Think Like One Download Now »

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With over 60 million WordPress blogs in existence, how does your customer know which one to visit? And with so many companies out there, all clamoring for attention, how will visitors know whether to spend their money with you? The answers are in this book. Create a WordPress blog which will instantly capture your target audience, build your reputation, and turn visitors into paying customers.

Following the program contained in this book, you will turn your blog into a customer magnet using the simplest techniques available, including SEO, social media, market analysis, targeted content and more.Gain an excellent understanding of the online marketing cycle through this practical step-by-step tutorial. Discover who your target market is. Learn what they want and how best to deliver it. Start generating more and more interest with less effort and ultimately meet and exceed all your goals.

What you will learn from this book:

• Define the business objective that will become your blog’s goal
• Identify your ideal customer
• Create excellent content that will fulfill their needs
• Drive customers to your blog
• How to convert your readers into customers
• How to constantly analyze and improve your success rate

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A crash course on the most dynamic marketing platform today!

Online marketing has evolved far beyond flashy websites and banner ads shouting at customers about your product. It’s about using an array of Internet tools to build credibility and visibility, spread your message, and form meaningful customer relationships.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Online Marketing puts you on the fast track to harnessing the power of the Web for your marketing goals. It begins with planning and building a website and then provides in-depth coverage of essential online marketing tools and techniques, such as:

• Content marketing and blogging
• Social media marketing
• Web analytics
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO )
• E-mail marketing
• Online Public Relations
• Earn a Certificate of Achievement Through A Free Online Examination!

The McGraw-Hill 36 Hour Course: Online Marketing spells it all out in easy-to-understand terms and actionable steps. You’re already on your way to Web marketing mastery!

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Many companies still approach Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and paid search as separate initiatives. This in-depth guide shows you how to use these programs as part of a comprehensive strategy—not just to improve your site’s search rankings, but to attract the right people and increase your conversion rate.

Learn how to measure, test, analyze, and interpret all of your search data with a wide array of analytic tools. Gain the knowledge you need to determine the strategy’s return on investment. Ideal for search specialists, webmasters, and search marketing managers, Mastering Search Analytics shows you how to gain better traffic and more revenue through your search efforts.

• Focus on conversion and usability—not on driving larger volumes of traffic
• Track the performance of your SEO and paid search keywords
• Apply techniques to monitor what your competitors are doing
• Understand the differences between mobile and desktop search
• Learn how social media impacts your search rankings and results
• Audit your site for problems that can affect users and search spiders
• Create dashboards and expanded reports for all of your search activities

About the Author
Brent Chaters, a Senior Leader of SapientNitro’s Analytics and Search practice, currently works with many fortune 500 companies and executives to help them better understand Download Now »