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Social Media Made Me Rich - Here's How it Can do the Same for You (Hardcover): Matthew Loop Social Media Made Me Rich - Here's How it Can do the Same for You (Hardcover)
Matthew Loop
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Have you ever wondered what specific strategies the world's highest-paid Internet entrepreneurs are using to get rich? Are you tired of working forty hours per week at a job you dislike and not getting paid what you're worth? Would you like to learn how to package the knowledge already in your head and put it into high-earning digital products (ebooks, online courses, coaching programs, software, etc.)? Wouldn't it be great to make a bigger impact in the world by helping others and doing what you love? If you answered yes to any of these questions, read Matthew Loop's Social Media Made Me Rich. This tactical blueprint shares the common denominators of the wealthiest movers and shakers online. You'll learn: - How to profit big from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, Amazon, and Google. - The biggest (and dumbest) mistakes to avoid when using high-leverage social platforms. - A million-dollar plan so you can start from scratch and monetize who you are along with what you know. - The most sought after scripts that grow your brand, influence, and bottom line fast. - How to become the celebrity expert in your industry. - The secret to attracting greater numbers of clients and sales without spending money. Social Media Made Me Rich is a comprehensive resource that helps you achieve prosperity and abundance on your terms, even if you're starting from zero.

Developing Technologies in E-Services, Self-Services, and Mobile Communication - New Concepts (Hardcover): Ada Scupola Developing Technologies in E-Services, Self-Services, and Mobile Communication - New Concepts (Hardcover)
Ada Scupola
R4,597 Discovery Miles 45 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Central to the study of e-services is the ability to evaluate critical success factors, which include quality, effectiveness, accessibility, and societal implications. Developing Technologies in E-Services, Self-Services, and Mobile Communication: New Concepts presents perspectives on the management, delivery and consumption, and creation of new e-services technologies and tools. This book reviews specific e-services such as e-banking and e-health initiatives and offers new perspectives useful to industry professionals and academicians interested in the creation, application, and evaluation of a number of different mobile and electronic services.

Domain-Namen Im Internet - Ein Wegweiser Fur Namensstrategien (English, German, Hardcover): Tim Schumacher, Thomas... Domain-Namen Im Internet - Ein Wegweiser Fur Namensstrategien (English, German, Hardcover)
Tim Schumacher, Thomas Ernstschneider, Andrea Wiehager
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Der Domainname ist SchlA1/4ssel und AushAngeschild jeder Website. Je durchdachter die Wahl der Domain, um so besser die Kommunikation. Dieses Buch bietet einen Rundum-Service: ausgehend von der Bedeutung eines guten Domain-Namens bis hin zu Suche, Registrierung, Handel, Rechtsfragen und Zukunftsprognosen soll das BewuAtsein fA1/4r den Domain-Namen als Grundlage von Marketingstrategien im Internet geschArft werden. Das Buch bietet auAerdem eine Basis fA1/4r das Management von Domain-Portfolios und richtet sich an Internetverantwortliche in Unternehmen ebenso wie an AnwAlte mit Schwerpunkt Online-Recht.

E-Commerce Power - How the Little Guys are Building Brands and Beating the Giants at E-Commerce (Paperback): Jason G. Miles E-Commerce Power - How the Little Guys are Building Brands and Beating the Giants at E-Commerce (Paperback)
Jason G. Miles
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In E-Commerce Power, Jason G. Miles shares a practical framework for starting and scaling a profitable e-commerce brand in the age of Amazon. E-Commerce Power is filled with encouragement, practical advice, tips, strategies, interviews, and proven online marketing methods - all organized to help new entrepreneurs. In 2008, Jason worked with his wife to start their new brand created on eBay selling doll clothes. In 2013, they launched Pixie Faire - a popular sewing supply marketplace that has had over 4 million patterns downloaded which is averaged at 60,000-70,000 orders a month. The site has been featured by Shopify and is in the top 1% of all Shopify sites based on worldwide site traffic. Within E-Commerce Power, Jason aims to teach new entrepreneurs how he and his wife were able to accomplish such a feat and thrive from it. E-Commerce Power is: Packed with interviews featuring small business owners crushing it online. A practical framework that explains how to scale up an e-commerce business for even the most novice reader. An enthusiasm guide of Amazon's 3rd party selling system which has created a boom in Private Label product strategies.

Game Strategies for Business Integration in the Digital Economy (Hardcover): Elena Popkova Game Strategies for Business Integration in the Digital Economy (Hardcover)
Elena Popkova
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through the comprehensive consideration of alternative strategies and their highly accurate comparison from the perspective of quantitative characteristics, the game approach refines logic and increases the efficiency and expediency of making decisions on business integration. Game Strategies for Business Integration in the Digital Economy reveals the essence, features and benefits of various strategies for business integration in the digital economy. Presenting a general scientific idea of business integration from the perspective of the Game Theory, Game Strategies for Business Integration in the Digital Economy considers these game strategies for business integration in the digital economy: cluster strategy; public-private partnership; cooperation of universities and business entities; parks and innovation networks; the M&A strategy; foreign direct investment; the strategy for export development of international business integration. Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing (ABM&P), offers leading edge theory, empirical research and practice on sensemaking, planning, implementing and evaluating of strategies in business-to-business marketing and purchasing.

Trust Networks for Recommender Systems (Hardcover, Edition. ed.): Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine de Cock Trust Networks for Recommender Systems (Hardcover, Edition. ed.)
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine de Cock
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book describes research performed in the context of trust/distrust propagation and aggregation, and their use in recommender systems. This is a hot research topic with important implications for various application areas. The main innovative contributions of the work are: -new bilattice-based model for trust and distrust, allowing for ignorance and inconsistency -proposals for various propagation and aggregation operators, including the analysis of mathematical properties -Evaluation of these operators on real data, including a discussion on the data sets and their characteristics. -A novel approach for identifying controversial items in a recommender system -An analysis on the utility of including distrust in recommender systems -Various approaches for trust based recommendations (a.o. base on collaborative filtering), an in depth experimental analysis, and proposal for a hybrid approach -Analysis of various user types in recommender systems to optimize bootstrapping of cold start users.

Facebook Marketing - A Comprehensive Guide to Growing Your Business on Facebook (Hardcover): Jason Lazar Facebook Marketing - A Comprehensive Guide to Growing Your Business on Facebook (Hardcover)
Jason Lazar
R556 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Ebay Phenomenon - Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company (Hardcover, REV and Revised): D Bunnell The Ebay Phenomenon - Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company (Hardcover, REV and Revised)
D Bunnell
R1,046 R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Save R159 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The buzz about The ebay Phenomenon

"David Bunnell’s portrayal of eBay paints a picture of one of the most daring, fanatically innovative, customer-centric companies on the planet. It demonstrates how a small, driven group of people can listen to customers and reinvent the world–inspiring!"–David Siegel, author, Futurize Your Enterprise

"Read The eBay Phenomenon if you want the inside account of how this innovative company became one of the decade’s greatest business success stories. Regardless of what business you’re in, David Bunnell’s exciting chronicle offers valuable lessons and a riveting narrative."–Eric Nee, Senior Writer, Fortune

Design Science Research. Cases (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Jan Vom Brocke, Alan Hevner, Alexander Maedche Design Science Research. Cases (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Jan Vom Brocke, Alan Hevner, Alexander Maedche
R4,000 Discovery Miles 40 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Design Science Research is a powerful paradigm enabling researchers to make important contributions to society and industry. Simply stated, the goal of DSR is to generate knowledge on how to find innovative solutions to important problems in the form of models, methods, constructs and instantiations. Over the past 20 years, the design science research (DSR) paradigm has developed into an established paradigm in Information Systems Research and it is of strong uptake in many other disciplines, including Management Science and Computer Science. This book provides a collection of twelve DSR cases, presented by experienced researchers in the field. It offers readers access to real-world DSR studies, together with the authors' reflections on their research processes. These cases will support researchers who want to engage in DSR, and represent a valuable addition to existing introductions to DSR methods and processes. Readers will learn from the hands-on experiences of respected experts who have conducted extensive DSR in a range of application contexts.

Social Media Marketing - Become an Influencer in Your Space and Build an Evergreen Brand with Endless Leads using Facebook,... Social Media Marketing - Become an Influencer in Your Space and Build an Evergreen Brand with Endless Leads using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest & Instagram to Skyrocket Your Business and Brand (Hardcover)
Income Mastery
R635 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Partnering Imperative - Making Business Partnerships Work (Hardcover): A. Deering The Partnering Imperative - Making Business Partnerships Work (Hardcover)
A. Deering
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is no shortage of strategic reasons for taking partnering seriously in today’s converging and colliding marketplace. However, there certainly is a lack of credible explanations as to why so many fail.

This book provides the ingredients for successful business partnerships. It identifies the value that effective partnerships can generate, the reasons why so many run into difficulties, and the imperatives for leaders who want to make partnering work in a globalized, digital world.

A powerful series of insights into one of the major issues of our time: how to create a partnership that generates innovation and other key advantages. Original, perceptive, wise and easy to read. –Dr Charles Hampden-Turner, Cambridge University, Judge Institute of Management Studies

Deering and Murphy have written with great clarity and insight on a difficult subject. Partnering will continue to grow in importance as firms shrink in size and look outside their boundaries for some of their critical resources. This book offers clear and practical guidelines for the manager who has to grapple with the multilevel and multicultural complexities of the partnering process. I highly recommend it. –Max Boisot, Snider Center for Entrepreneurial Research, Wharton Business School

Electronic Commerce - Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Makoto Yokoo, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Juhnyoung Lee,... Electronic Commerce - Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Makoto Yokoo, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Juhnyoung Lee, Tokuro Matsuo
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book covers recent advances in electronic commerce research activities. It aims to encourage activities in this field, and to serve researchers with an interest in electronic commerce. This book is edited from some aspects of e-commerce researches including theoretical mechanism design of trading based on auctions, allocation mechanism based on negotiation among multi-agent, case-study and analysis of e-trading, data engineering issues in e-commerce, and so on.

American CEOs Can do better, we have the technology? - The American high & low intellectual property is at risk for terrorism... American CEOs Can do better, we have the technology? - The American high & low intellectual property is at risk for terrorism from abroad. (Hardcover)
Wayne Holovacs
R630 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R60 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror comes when its your turn on the chopping block...

Forty six state governments now Out-source jobs and contracts to foreign countries like India, China, and more...

American HMOs, Insurance companies, banks, and credit card companies are processing your social security information, your medical and financial data with employees oversees where no laws protect you from the sharing and releasing of your personal information.

By the year 2017, $163.1 billion in American wages will have been shifted from America to low-wage countries.

Tens of thousands of high-tech jobs, our "intellectual-property" is being sent overseas.

You, your/our children, the American dream and our middle class way of life is at stake, and what you can do about it...

"American CEOs can do better we have the technology?" DR. Wayne tells you about this threat to our middle-class, the American dream...and how we can stop this non-sense

Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Modern Organizations (Hardcover): Nijaz Bajgoric Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Modern Organizations (Hardcover)
Nijaz Bajgoric
R5,314 Discovery Miles 53 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Continuous improvements in digitized practices have created opportunities for businesses to develop more streamlined processes. This not only leads to higher success in day-to-day production, but it increases the overall success of businesses. Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Modern Organizations is a critical scholarly resource that examines how EIS implementations support business processes and facilitate this in today's e-business environment. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as customer relations management, supply chain management, and business intelligence, this book is geared towards professionals, researchers, managers, consultants, and university students interested in emerging developments for business process management.

Mastering Search Advertising - How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google Adwords (Hardcover): Richard Stokes Mastering Search Advertising - How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google Adwords (Hardcover)
Richard Stokes
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Mastering Search Advertising" shares insight and professional guidance from an expert Internet marketer on how to launch, manage and improve already-existing pay-per-click campaigns, providing an inside look into a largely undiscovered and exciting industry.

Richard Stokes, founder of AdGooroo, a leading search engine intelligence company, has over 15 years of experience in advertising and technology management and includes real-life examples, case studies and charts that reveal not only the basics of creating a pay-per-click campaign, but also break down the intricacies of the process into simple, easy-to-understand steps that will help any business leader focused on achieving a world-class marketing strategy. Successful tactics known only to a handful of elite search marketers are discussed in detail and include specific techniques on how to:

  • Increase search traffic while simultaneously lowering costs
  • Conduct keyword research
  • Determine the best starting bid prices for new keywords
  • Manage bids without expensive bid management software
  • Launch a new campaign
  • Understand the Google quality score algorithm

Stop throwing your marketing dollars away and learn how to dominate Google AdWords today

"A well researched, truthful, and up-to-date guide for pay-per-click marketers."
Mike Mindel, CTO, Wordtracker.com

Behavioral Competencies of Digital Professionals - Understanding the Role of Emotional Intelligence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020):... Behavioral Competencies of Digital Professionals - Understanding the Role of Emotional Intelligence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Sara Bonesso, Elena Bruni, Fabrizio Gerli
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Shedding new light on the human side of big data through the lenses of emotional and social intelligence competencies, this book advances the understanding of the requirements of the different professions that deal with big data. It also illustrates the empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of data scientists and data analysts, the two most in-demand big data jobs in the labor market. The book provides recommendations for the higher education system to offer better designed curricula for entry-level big data professions. It also offers managerial insights in describing how organizations and specifically HR practitioners can benefit from the competency-based approach to overcome the skill shortage that characterizes the demand for big data professional roles and to increase the effectiveness of the selection and recruiting processes.

Internet Marketing Starter Course (Paperback): Kevin Taylor Internet Marketing Starter Course (Paperback)
Kevin Taylor
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Advances in Automated Negotiations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Reyhan Aydogan Advances in Automated Negotiations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Reyhan Aydogan
R5,143 Discovery Miles 51 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book discusses important recent advances in automated negotiations. It introduces a number of state-of-the-art autonomous agents for large-scale and complex negotiations, and demonstrates that automated negotiation is one of the most important areas in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Further, it presents automated negotiation scenarios involving negotiation encounters that may have, for instance, a large number of agents or a large number of issues with interdependencies and/or real-time constraints. This book includes carefully selected and reviewed outcomes of the 11th International Workshop on Automated Negotiations (ACAN) held in Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, in conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI-2018. Written by leading academic and industrial researchers, it is a valuable resource for professionals and scholars working on complex automated negotiations. Furthermore, the in-depth descriptions of automated negotiating agent programs help readers who are involved in writing codes for automated agents.

Business to Business Electronic Commerce - Challenges and Solutions (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Warkentin Business to Business Electronic Commerce - Challenges and Solutions (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Warkentin
R2,366 Discovery Miles 23 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the mid 1990s, the widespread adoption of the web browser led to a rapid commercialization of the Internet. In addition, initial success stories were reported from companies that learned how to create an effective direct marketing channel selling tangible products to consumers directly with the World Wide Web. By the end of the 1990s, the next revolution began called business-to-business electronic commerce. Business to Business Electronic Commerce will provide researchers and practitioners alike with a source of knowledge related to this emerging area of business. The audience for this book includes students, scholars, researchers and practitioners. Any currently engaged in the utilization and management of electronic commerce technologies will be interested in Business to Business Electronic Commerce to learn about the latest issues and challenges facing businesses throughout the world.

Market Engineering - Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Information (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Henner Gimpel,... Market Engineering - Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Information (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Henner Gimpel, Jan Kramer, Dirk Neumann, Jella Pfeiffer, Stefan Seifert, …
R1,539 Discovery Miles 15 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions in markets, smart decision-making in cities and other systems, and methodological approaches to conceptual modeling and taxonomy development. Overall, this book is a source of inspiration for everybody working on the vision of advancing the science of engineering markets and managing information for contributing to a bright, sustainable, digital world. Markets are powerful and extremely efficient mechanisms for coordinating individuals' and organizations' behavior in a complex, networked economy. Thus, designing, monitoring, and regulating markets is an essential task of today's society. This task does not only derive from a purely economic point of view. Leveraging market forces can also help to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges. Moreover, markets process, generate, and reveal information. This information is a production factor and a valuable economic asset. In an increasingly digital world, it is more essential than ever to understand the life cycle of information from its creation and distribution to its use. Both markets and the flow of information should not arbitrarily emerge and develop based on individual, profit-driven actors. Instead, they should be engineered to serve best the whole society's goals. This motivation drives the research fields of market engineering and information management. With this book, the editors and authors honor Professor Dr. Christof Weinhardt for his enormous and ongoing contribution to market engineering and information management research and practice. It was presented to him on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday in April 2021. Thank you very much, Christof, for so many years of cooperation, support, inspiration, and friendship.

Ecommerce 2017 - Grow Your Business Selling on eBay, Amazon, Etsy, and Fiverr (Paperback): Nick Vulich Ecommerce 2017 - Grow Your Business Selling on eBay, Amazon, Etsy, and Fiverr (Paperback)
Nick Vulich
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Management Innovation and Big Data (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Zheng Qin, Yan Li, Yinzhou Yang Management Innovation and Big Data (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Zheng Qin, Yan Li, Yinzhou Yang
R2,410 Discovery Miles 24 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Adhering to the combination of theoretical introduction and practical case introduction, this book summarizes the basic concepts and methods in management and big data analysis at home and abroad and introduces a large number of relevant practical cases, especially new cases in the Internet era, to help readers integrate theoretical knowledge into practical applications. The chapters of this book are interrelated and independent of each other, making it easy for the reader to study in pieces or to delve deeper into a particular topic of interest. Covering an array of theories about management and big data at home and abroad, this book lays a solid foundation for being an authentic manager. It is organized into sections on decision-making, organization, leadership, control, innovation, and big data to fully dissect and summarize the basic concepts of these characters in management and to show the basic methods that managers can use to solve problems. Each section contains a large number of examples to demonstrate how entrepreneurs successfully manage their large companies and overcome the difficulties in the business, utilizing the corresponding management functions or big data technology. Further, in order to adapt to the development of the Internet era, this book also absorbs a lot of practice cases of management innovation and big data which have emerged in recent years based on advanced network platform and big data analysis. This book puts great emphasis on the innovative function of management, adding more comprehensive methods and more updated cases related to the Internet.

Franchise Bible - How to Buy a Franchise or Franchise Your Own Business (Paperback, 9th edition): Rick Grossmann, Michael J.... Franchise Bible - How to Buy a Franchise or Franchise Your Own Business (Paperback, 9th edition)
Rick Grossmann, Michael J. Katz
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Web Information Systems (Hardcover, New): Web Information Systems (Hardcover, New)
R2,153 Discovery Miles 21 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Internet is already more widely deployed than any other computing system in history and continues to grow rapidly. New technologies, including high speed wide area network and improved software support for distribution, promise to make the Internet much more useful for general purpose distributed computing in the future. Web Information Systems is dedicated to the new era of information systems on web environments, due to not only the growing popularity of the web technology but also the roles that web technology play in modern information systems. The major elements of web information systems include web semantics, XML technologies, web mining and querying, web-based information systems, information extraction, and web semantics.

Predictable Profits - Transform Your Business from One-Off Sales to Recurring Revenue with Memberships and Subscriptions... Predictable Profits - Transform Your Business from One-Off Sales to Recurring Revenue with Memberships and Subscriptions (Hardcover)
Stu McLaren
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Launch, grow, and scale your membership business

What if you could stop chasing one-off sales and build a business that pays you consistently, month after month?

In Predictable Profits, membership expert Stu McLaren pulls back the curtain on how to create a thriving membership business that doesn’t just bring in revenue―but does so predictably, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.

Drawing on nearly two decades of membership experience, Stu shares:

· Three telltale signs that you have a perfect market for a membership site
· How to effortlessly attract new members―even if you don’t like to “sell”
· Why closing your doors will lead to faster and more explosive growth in your membership
· A simple blueprint for creating irresistible content that keeps your members coming back for more
· What to do in the first 30 days to triple the lifetime value of your members

Predictable Profits is packed with real-life success stories, actionable insights, and all the inspiration you need to build a membership site that does more than just generate revenue―it creates financial stability, positive impact, and ultimate freedom.

Turn what you already know, love, and do into a thriving online business. This remarkable book will show you how.

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