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Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization: Increase Your Google Rankings, Double Your Site Traffic...In Just 15 Steps - Guaranteed
The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization is ideal for small business owners who want to learn an efficient and effective process for dramatically improving their Web site s search engine rankings and doubling their site s monthly unique visitors. Guaranteed! Stephen Woessner, of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Small Business Development Center, is a search engine optimization (SEO) expert. But more importantly, Woessner has owned four businesses and understands the significant time and cash constraints faced by business owners every day. Because of this, Woessner placed increasing efficiency and effectiveness at the core of the 15-steps allowing a business owner to maximize results in as little time as possible. A business owner does not need to know technical skills, like Web programming, to be successful at SEO. Instead, business owners will rely on their marketing skill and the ability to think like their customers and prospects, versus an ability to write HTML or other form of Web programming. Business owners will learn how to select keywords that are proven performers, blend the keywords into site content, boost site popularity, and more. Woessner explains with precision how business owners can use SEO to achieve measurable results. This practical and tactical guide includes a free SEO toolkit and other valuable resources that will help business owners increase the return on investment generated by their Web sites. Business owners will also receive a detailed blueprint with specific checklists to follow throughout the 15-step process. Lastly, this book can also serve as an excellent resource to business owners who are considering outsourcing their SEO work to a third-party. Developing a working knowledge of the 15-step process will make any business owner a more informed consumer. This book is also an ideal resource for marketing and advertising agency professionals who want to expand their services and need to develop a proficiency in SEO as efficiently and effectively as possible.
To Group Coupon Or Not: Small Business Guide to Groupon, Google Offers, LivingSocial and Others (To Groupon or not)
If you are a small business owner, selling products like specialty cakes or in services business like running a spa, whether you have heard about group buying or not, used one of these sites in the past for running your promotion or considering using them in the near future, this book is for you.
This book helps you decide whether or not running a promotion on Groupon or similar site is an economically superior option or not. The methods are purely based on numbers and economics and not on my opinions or biases. Informed decision making based on numbers and data is hard but the alternative threatens the very viability of your business.
Decision making gets harder when all the costs are not explicit and how the options are presented to us affect our decision making process. This book brings out the hidden costs that most do not always consider, like opportunity cost, and helps you cast aside anchors and framing influences that cloud your decision making.
Consider this, if you plan to give away 2000 units of your product that is usually priced at $100 for a discounted price of $50, and give another $25 to the Group Coupon site, should you not take the time to understand the final and lasting outcome of such a promotion and whether or not it is better than all other options?
For a price that is less than the cost of an average group coupon promotion, or less than one half of one percent of your total promotion spend, this book will not only help you avoid costly promotion mistakes but also will help you understand how and when to successfully employ it to take advantage of it.
This book is not a course in business management, economics, marketing or on how to run your business. But the principles shown here are rooted in business management and are no different from the business methods used by large corporations when they decide on marketing and product investments.
This book helps you decide whether or not running a promotion on Groupon or similar site is an economically superior option or not. The methods are purely based on numbers and economics and not on my opinions or biases. Informed decision making based on numbers and data is hard but the alternative threatens the very viability of your business.
Decision making gets harder when all the costs are not explicit and how the options are presented to us affect our decision making process. This book brings out the hidden costs that most do not always consider, like opportunity cost, and helps you cast aside anchors and framing influences that cloud your decision making.
Consider this, if you plan to give away 2000 units of your product that is usually priced at $100 for a discounted price of $50, and give another $25 to the Group Coupon site, should you not take the time to understand the final and lasting outcome of such a promotion and whether or not it is better than all other options?
For a price that is less than the cost of an average group coupon promotion, or less than one half of one percent of your total promotion spend, this book will not only help you avoid costly promotion mistakes but also will help you understand how and when to successfully employ it to take advantage of it.
This book is not a course in business management, economics, marketing or on how to run your business. But the principles shown here are rooted in business management and are no different from the business methods used by large corporations when they decide on marketing and product investments.
Beginning Google Sketchup for 3D Printing (Expert's Voice in 3D Printing)
The age of 3D printing and personal fabrication is uponus! You’ve probably heard of the incredibly sophisticated but inexpensive 3Dprinters that can produce almost any creation you give them. But how do youbecome part of that revolution?
Sandeep Singh takes you through the skills you need tolearn and the services and technologies you need to know—explaining what 3Dprinting is, how it works, and what it can do for you. You’ll find yourselfrapidly prototyping and learning to produce complex designs that can befabricated by online 3D printing services or privately owned 3D printers and inyour hands in no time.
Beginning GoogleSketchUp for 3D Printing starts by explaining how to use SketchUp and itsplug-ins to make your design products. You will learn how to present andanimate 3D models, and how to use Google Earth and 3D Warehouse to sell andmarket your 3D models. You'll also get a vision of the future of 3D printing soyou can plan your future projects while mastering today's tools.
Beginning Google SketchUpfor 3D Printing is the perfect bookfor 3D designers, hobbyists, woodworkers, craftspeople, and artists interestedin the following:
Welcome to the era of 3D printing and personalfabrication!
What you’ll learn
- 3D design for beginners
- Using Sketchup
- Using the online 3D printing pipeline
- Animating Sketchup 3D models
- Becoming familiar with rapid prototyping technology
- Navigating new 3D and personal fabrication technologies
- Negotiate Google Earth and 3D Warehouse with confidence
Who this book is for
3D Designers, hobbyists, woodworkers, craftsmen and artists.
Table of Contents
- The Ins and Outs of Google SketchUp and Shapeways
- First 3D Printout
- Getting Your Juices Flowing
- 3D Model to 3D Print
- Tools and Techniques to Save Time
- Breaking the Barrier
- Modeling with Photographs
- Working with Symmetry
- Share with the World
- Animate with SketchyPhysics
- Using LayOut
- Exploring 3D Printing Alternatives
- Get Connected
App Inventor
Yes, you can create your own apps for Android phones—and it's easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces App Inventor for Android, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps for Android-based devices. Learn the basics of App Inventor with step-by-step instructions for more than a dozen fun projects, such as creating location-aware apps, data storage, and apps that include decision-making logic.The second half of the book features an Inventor's manual to help you understand the fundamentals of app building and computer science. App Inventor makes an excellent textbook for beginners and experienced developers alike.Design games and other apps with 2D graphics and animationCreate custom multi-media quizzes and study guidesCreate a custom tour of your city, school, or workplaceUse an Android phone to control a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robotBuild location-aware apps by working with your phone’s sensorsExplore apps that incorporate information from the WebLearn computer science as you build your apps
Google Sketchup for Interior Design & Space Planning (Acquiring Intermediate Skills)
Much has been written for using Google SketchUp in the building shell and its relationship to the environment or the site. Less help has been provided to interior designers who work every day with materials, textures, lights and colors. Students need to know the available tools and how they can apply them in specific cases to this particular discipline. Fundamental concepts, ideas on how to create objects and interior spaces, tips and practical exercises are what this book offers. Rather than endless lines of explanatory text this hands-on book is a compendium of practical exercises that lead students to learn SketchUp from the perspective of the interior designer.
This book focuses on the fundamentals for the interior design field and promotes independent study. A series of four books offer separate courses progressing in complexity. At the end of every course you will find practical exercises that will broaden your experience in the acquired knowledge. These resources enable students to think about how the knowledge can be applied to any situation. At the end of the four courses you will be able to express your ideas to others in a more efficient and attractive way.
"Training Course 2. Acquiring Intermediate Skills" may be applied to any discipline, but all exercises are designed especially for interior designers, stage designers and space planning focusing on the tools required to use Sketchup in those fields. One of the strengths of SketchUp is the way it allows users to maintain the geometry of a model under control. Having a disorganized model can be a real headache and can even cause the computer to operate very slowly. There are four indispensable tools if you wish to reach a good end: Groups, Components, Outliner and Layers.
Learn how to stay organized in SketchUp by using these tools. Learn how to control your model through the Outliner and access to the 3D Warehouse.
This book focuses on the fundamentals for the interior design field and promotes independent study. A series of four books offer separate courses progressing in complexity. At the end of every course you will find practical exercises that will broaden your experience in the acquired knowledge. These resources enable students to think about how the knowledge can be applied to any situation. At the end of the four courses you will be able to express your ideas to others in a more efficient and attractive way.
"Training Course 2. Acquiring Intermediate Skills" may be applied to any discipline, but all exercises are designed especially for interior designers, stage designers and space planning focusing on the tools required to use Sketchup in those fields. One of the strengths of SketchUp is the way it allows users to maintain the geometry of a model under control. Having a disorganized model can be a real headache and can even cause the computer to operate very slowly. There are four indispensable tools if you wish to reach a good end: Groups, Components, Outliner and Layers.
Learn how to stay organized in SketchUp by using these tools. Learn how to control your model through the Outliner and access to the 3D Warehouse.
Google Juice - Get Found Online
Finally a book that explains how today's web works in "non-tech" speak! Google Juice breaks down all aspects of using today's internet for the average business person and shows how to get better search and social media results from your online efforts. Google Juice is perfect for small businesses, bloggers, real estate agents, musicians, or anyone else looking to increase their online presence.
Google Juice covers:
- How to research the best keywords to use on (and off) your website and where to place them.
- Setting up Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and LinkedIn profiles to maximize being found online.
- The top 32 sites to place content and move yourself closer to Google's page one.
- Using social media and press release to bring awareness to your brand - the right way!
- Free tools to update all accounts at once and put your social media on auto-pilot.
- Testing your keywords with paid search advertising and tracking the results with free analytical software.
"After reading Google Juice, I now get more leads daily through my website than a single agent can handle! If you're in the Real Estate business, you should be reading this book NOW!"
- Gary Ashton begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, The Ashton Real Estate Group of Re/MAX Elite, NashvillesMls.com
"My blog would not be what it is today without Scott's expertise. Google Juice helped me piece together the basics of using Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks correctly to bring more awareness to my blog. Scott knows all the best practices and makes them easy to understand, even for a techie novice like myself."
- Heather of HeatherEatsAlmondButter.com
"After reading and applying the techniques I learned in Google Juice, my music video on YouTube went from hundreds of views to THOUSANDS. It continues to grow each day. I highly recommend this book for musicians trying to navigate today's internet in order to better optimize their brand."
- Jessica Rae, JessicaRaeMusic.com
Google Juice covers:
- How to research the best keywords to use on (and off) your website and where to place them.
- Setting up Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and LinkedIn profiles to maximize being found online.
- The top 32 sites to place content and move yourself closer to Google's page one.
- Using social media and press release to bring awareness to your brand - the right way!
- Free tools to update all accounts at once and put your social media on auto-pilot.
- Testing your keywords with paid search advertising and tracking the results with free analytical software.
"After reading Google Juice, I now get more leads daily through my website than a single agent can handle! If you're in the Real Estate business, you should be reading this book NOW!"
- Gary Ashton begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, The Ashton Real Estate Group of Re/MAX Elite, NashvillesMls.com
"My blog would not be what it is today without Scott's expertise. Google Juice helped me piece together the basics of using Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks correctly to bring more awareness to my blog. Scott knows all the best practices and makes them easy to understand, even for a techie novice like myself."
- Heather of HeatherEatsAlmondButter.com
"After reading and applying the techniques I learned in Google Juice, my music video on YouTube went from hundreds of views to THOUSANDS. It continues to grow each day. I highly recommend this book for musicians trying to navigate today's internet in order to better optimize their brand."
- Jessica Rae, JessicaRaeMusic.com
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