Doing Business Digitally

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.