Sometimes we Apogeeans do some pretty cool things, like ziplining through a rain forest, blowing up bowling pins at a gun range, speaking at SXSW and even writing a book. Okay, so maybe the thought of writing a book doesn’t seem as awesome as blowing stuff up or being suspended above a rain forest floor, but writing a book is a pretty amazing accomplishment (seriously–as a writer I often hear, “I’ve always wanted to write a book…” from people who will never even start a manuscript much less finish one). So join us in celebrating our CEO Bill Leake’s accomplishment.
Complete B2B Online Marketing
By: William Leake, Lauren Vaccarello and Maura Ginty
From the Back Cover:
Master Today’s B2B Online Marketing
This practical guide is for B2B marketers who want to leverage today’s search engine marketing and social media technologies to attract, nurture, convert, and generate leads. It’s the perfect B2B online crash course—you’ll quickly learn how to engage in social media and attract visitors to your site, apply social media listening and monitoring tools, and maximize the impact of banner ads and landing pages. By book’s end, you’ll better understand important strategic and branding issues, the best ways to track results, the secrets of sound SEO, and more. Packed with instructive case studies and hands-on tutorials, this is the ultimate how-to on successful B2B online marketing.
- Identify your product value and establish an online brand
- Drive quality leads to your site with paid search, display, and social ads
- Nurture those leads with good content—emails, webinars, and more
- Create websites and landing pages that make visitors want to stick around
- Apply the very latest search engine optimization techniques
- Chat up visitors and engage your customers with social media
- Allocate your resources for success outcomes
- Track and measure your efforts with top listening and monitoring tools
- Generate reports that are targeted—and actually helpful
- Integrate your marketing with CRM and complex sales cycles
“If you were looking for yet another boring B2B marketing book, keep looking. If you were looking for an absorbing, practical guide to sexy B2B marketing, then you’ve found it! From targeting to relevant messaging to nurturing to acquisition, let the authors show you how to truly rock it.”—Avinash Kaushik, Digital Marketing Evangelist at Google and author of Web Analytics 2.0
“Business-to-business online marketing is hard. Luckily, these experts are veteran B2B online marketers and excellent communicators—you want them on your side!”—Tim Ash, CEO of SiteTuners, author of Landing Page Optimization, Chair of Conversion Conference
“If you run a B2B company or are involved in marketing, this book is a must-read. Those that learn these tactics and concepts have significant market share to gain, and those that do not will feel the consequences.”—Aaron Kahlow, CEO of Online Marketing Institute
Available for pre-order from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Available in stores Tuesday, June 10, 2012
Tags: online marketing book
