Doing Business Digitally : Eight Steps to Online Success PDF

The internet is rapidly transforming the South African business landscape.

For the first time the consumer has a voice; small businesses can run rings around large corporations; local consumers are buying internationally; and local businesses are selling globally.

This creates massive opportunities - and an urgent need to change. Doing Business Digitally:• demonstrates the increasing power of the internet as a driver of business strategy;• demystifies the essential elements of internet marketing;• provides examples of how web 2.0, buzz marketing and social media can be used to rapidly grow brand awareness, lead generation and sales;• gives practical guidelines for doing ebusiness professionally, drawing on examples from South Africa and abroad;• explains step by step how to develop a website that will work as a business tool;• shows how search engine marketing can generate traffic to a web page;• provides rules to maximise the effectiveness of email marketing and online advertising; and• presents a simple eight-step approach to developing a strategy that minimises risk and provides a clear path to success. Complete with a step-by-step strategy guide and comprehensive glossary, Doing Business Digitally shows the way in which companies need to evolve if they are to stay relevant and exploit new opportunities.