Comprehensive Guide to Digital Marketing for Beginners

20 reviews between Jun 12, 2022 and Jun 04, 2023.

A comprehensive guide for beginners in digital marketing, covering various topics such as targeting demographics, marketing techniques, and social media strategies. The book provides valuable insights and resources, making it ideal for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Although it is not suitable for advanced digital marketers, it offers scalable options for dominating the digital marketing game. The spiral-bound format and easy-to-read content make it a valuable resource for online entrepreneurs.

Digital Marketing QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Developing a Scalable Online

20 reviews between Jun 12, 2022 and Jun 04, 2023.

Jun 12, 2022 - Jun 04, 2023

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Lots of useful information
I got this book for my son and this is his review.
This book is very informative and is easy to understand for beginners, the author did a great job on writing the book and I understood many things that were said in this Book from finding your customers to starting the sale process.
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- Positive
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- Useful for Beginners
Jul 18, 2022
Great Overview
This book is well-organized, written in plain language, and easy to follow. I’m new to digital marketing and was looking for information and insights to help me market a new business; this book is useful for someone in my situation as well as for those who already have some marketing experience. In an understandable way, Sweeney explains marketing concepts like paid, earned, and owned media; market segmentation; the value ladder; and more. The book also covers concepts that will help you lay out your objectives, such as how to formulate SMART (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) goals.

In addition to the conceptual material, Sweeney offers plenty of practical advice, including how to set up an effective landing page and other pages for your website. You can learn methods to draw and measure traffic to your website, use search engine optimization, develop advertising, and so on. Of course, social media is an indispensable aspect of digital marketing these days, and this is also covered in the book. You’ll also learn how to craft effective emails that are more likely to engage your audience and generate a response.

The book also comes with cool, useful, and interactive extras, such as access to a website with numerous worksheets you can fill out to more deeply plan how you will apply the concepts in the book to your own business. I really appreciated how many of these were available, since I’m more of a hands-on person. In the back of the book, there is also a list of resources and recommended readings.

Overall, I recommend this book as a comprehensive resource for beginners. It doesn’t go into a huge degree of depth, but that was fine with me because I was looking for an overview and practical tips. This will be helpful as I market my business.
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- Positive
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- Comprehensive Guide
Jul 16, 2022
Best Starter Books
This is my second "QuickStart Guide" from them. Something I love is that the author is someone who is experienced in the line of business. In this case Benjamin Sweeney has been in the business for years and makes it so easy to follow with an easy flow with how these topics present and should be applied in real life business senerios. Not only that but how to get clientele, retain, and ADD to your marketing plans which is rare for most books stay within a single scope where this book helps extend your options. The set up is easy and pretty straight forward and offers more than just "social marketing" but also the importance of emails and how important it is to follow up which is where most companies I've personally work with have failed or lacked. Including myself. I am a beginner but have seen first hand how important marketing is to any small business and this will help my own small business to grow and flourish. I definitely recommend this to anyone who has a small business, step in to learn this career path, or just needs a refresher on what marketing is outside of just social media. Thank you!
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- Positive
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- Small Business Strategies
Jul 11, 2022
Helps to cut through the confusion
I wish I had Benjamin Sweeny's Digital Marketing Quick Start Guide in front of me ten years ago! It would definitely helped me to wrap my head around what was being discussed. I have taken courses in PR and marketing in college, I subscribe to business learning sites, and yet, this book put out by ClydeBank Media cuts through so much that I failed to grasp before!

Because digital marketing is now more important than ever, if you're thinking of starting an online business, it can be really confusing and frustrating to learn what it is you need to know. You not only want to get your product or service out in front of potential customers, you want to convert casual online traffic sers into sales.

I love the spiral bound format of this book because it makes it easy to read and focus on. and Sweeney makes it a point to go over the importance of having SMART goals for your digital marketing - which means you want Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant and Time Bound. And he goes over the tools to help capture and direct potential customers toward not only sales but repeat business in a way that is easy to understand. He goes over social medial, email lists and SEO in a way that doesn't make you feel as if you need a marketing degree.

When you first get the book, you are immediately directed to download further digital assets and forms that can help you with your own digital marketing efforts. While it's great that you are getting these free forms, examples and resources such as Googles Analytics page, it did leave me wondering just why it wasn't simply included inside the book. I do know that this kind of approach is pretty much part and parcel of what most online marketing campaigns do - offer potential customers "free stuff" so that they will be more inclined toward giving you their email address so they can be moved further down the sales funnel.

The myth of "If you build it, they will come" is definitely not true. You need to have some sort of digital marketing strategy to make your online business work for you. "Digital Marketing Quick Start Guide" is a great place to start if you are considering launching a new or improving your existing online business efforts.
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- Positive
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- Digital Marketing Basics
Jul 09, 2022
Good all around, digital marketing 101.
This book does a good job of covering a wide amount of digital marketing from beginning to end. It also includes access to even more free online information and worksheets.

The book takes readers through several worksheets and formulas to help you zero in on your target demographic as well as how much time and money you should spend with your marketing to them.

The book covers key topics and helps to dial everything down, into a specific customer avatar. It then explores specific techniques to market to this avatar through websites, blogs and landing pages,.. as well as various forms of social media.

All in all, it’s a good guide for digital marketing but most of the marketing solutions covered do cost money. While you may need to spend money to make money, the book does give you worksheets and formulas to get an idea of how much you should be spending.

It also cuts out the cost of the middleman, by allowing you to do the leg work of figuring out your target demographic and narrowing that audience considerably, so that your marketing dollars go further.

As a digital marketing 101, or marketing for dummies type book, this is an easy read at a fair price. Each chapter includes a chapter review at the end, similar to most textbooks.
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- Positive
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- Practical Tips and Insights
Jun 29, 2022
Helpful for beginners
The book is a complete guide to digital marketing suitable for someone who is not in the field but has knowledge of e-commerce and wants to learn a little about the terminology. The book is easy to read and follow, and I like the order of the content. If you are new to e-commerce, you will find the books enjoyable.

I recommend the book to small business owners who have to transition to e-commerce; this book is an excellent source for understanding the terminology and process. I did not discover any secrets, but I learned to organize my ideas and understand a thing or two about the process from beginning to end. The takeaway for me was understanding the sequence of events.
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- Positive
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- Digital Marketing Basics
Jun 19, 2022
Great tips for marketing
Lots of information here that is very helpful for online entrepreneurs. The author helps you determine your goals, who your audience/customer is, how to interact with them and how to keep and grow your client base, etc. I like the spiral bound format. The type is not too small either.
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- Positive
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- Practical Tips and Insights
Jun 18, 2022
great product
I am only 25 pages into this book and it is already so useful. I have been running my business for 3 years now, basically winging it, until now. With the help of this book, it is time to make my business legitimate, and, more importantly, successful. And, the book comes with great free online resources. I highly recommend it.
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- Positive
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- Digital Marketing Basics
Jun 17, 2022
Not a bad start, but will require supplemental reading if you want to advance further.
In style and format, this is close to the Idiot's Guides and For Dummies series that are long-running and very popular. It also shares those series' principle shortcoming: this is a good introduction, but *only* that. If you want to go any further with most of these concepts, you will need to read further. The explanations are brief and useful as a quick shorthand to get acquainted with concepts, typically followed by further explanations of certain key concepts, or a slightly more in-depth look at something.

There are three reasons why I say you'll need to read further:

-- Outdated information: to the author's credit, he does avoid spammy/black hat tactics when it comes to things like SEO and email marketing. As he points out -- correctly, I think -- there are some timeless principles that underlie most of marketing, and he spends most of his time on these. However, there are instances where even what's timeless could use a bit of a conceptual refresher. To choose just one example from many, there are a couple of pages spent on the customer lifecycle, but scant mention that the author's chosen endpoint of that cycle (the sale) is really only a midpoint; your lifecycle really needs to be more circular, rather than linear, in nature.

-- Lack of examples: It's all well and good to know that you need email sequences, and/or to know what the nature of those different sequences are. Each has specific needs, and even different stylistic considerations, which are generally glossed over (in fairness to the author, however, I do understand that he's trying to give a broad overview of concepts that, if discussed in full, could easily each be books in their own right).

-- Lack of examples, continued (supplemental materials): There are some worksheets and checklists available for download, covering some facets of your marketing needs, but these are far from complete.

I could go further, but I'll close with this: I've worked either in, or on the periphery of, marketing for nearly 20 years (mandatory disclaimer, I suppose: the views expressed here are mine, not my employer's). If you're new to marketing and want an overview, you could easily do worse than this, especially if you're getting a handle on unfamiliar concepts and terminology for marketing a one-person business. It's also a handy reference of sorts if you're broadly familiar with marketing, but trying to either identify or fill in minor gaps in your knowledge. That said, my own experience tells me that in some respects, "simplified" can easily tip over into "simplistic," so I'd suggest approaching this book with an open mind, and the understanding that it's only a beginning, not the end, of your journey.
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- Positive
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- Content Organization and Structure
Jun 12, 2022
Good handbook for small business
This is a good handbook for small business if you are looking for learning digital marketing knowledge and make your own strategies to grow your profitability. It is well printed and spiral-bound is easy to ready and turning pages.
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- Positive
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- Practical Tips and Insights
Jun 12, 2022
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