Adapt your sales strategy to embrace the opportunities that digital channels can bring, with this ultimate guide to selling in the digital environment from engaging customers and generating leads to building an online network, with advice from leading sales and marketing expert Grant Leboff. Sales and marketing functions are increasingly converging, with lead generation frequently arising from digital promotional campaigns and opportunities for traditional sales techniques diminishing due to scarce customer attention and availability, not to mention the plethora of readily accessible product information online. Salespeople now need to understand and interact with customers via multiple channels, participating in social media, in collaboration with marketing, to influence purchasing decisions and convert contacts to sales. Digital Selling makes sense of the new paradigms in which a salesperson now operates, outlining the new strategies required to take advantage of the opportunities that exist, and provides the practical advice salespeople need to generate leads and sell more. Packed with great advice for engaging with customers online and via social media, this book explains: -Why embracing the social web is vital -How the sales role changes in a digital environment -The lead generation model in a digital world -How to build your online network This straightforward and practical book from one of today's thought leaders on digital sales and marketing, is essential reading for any sales professional.

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the “digital music commodity,” Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped reformat popular music’s meanings and uses. Through case studies of five key technologies—Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and cloud computing—this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods. Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding out of music’s encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.

How has the Internet changed literary culture? 2nd Place, N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by The Electronic Literature Organization Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably transformed book culture. Since Amazon’s founding in 1994, the whole way in which books are created, marketed, publicized, sold, reviewed, showcased, consumed, and commented upon has changed dramatically. The digital literary sphere is no mere appendage to the world of print—it is where literary reputations are made, movements are born, and readers passionately engage with their favorite works and authors. In The Digital Literary Sphere, Simone Murray considers the contemporary book world from multiple viewpoints. By examining reader engagement with the online personas of Margaret Atwood, John Green, Gary Shteyngart, David Foster Wallace, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and even Jonathan Franzen, among others, Murray reveals the dynamic interrelationship of print and digital technologies. Drawing on approaches from literary studies, media and cultural studies, book history, cultural policy, and the digital humanities, this book asks: What is the significance of authors communicating directly to readers via social media? How does digital media reframe the “live” author-reader encounter? And does the growing army of reader-reviewers signal an overdue democratizing of literary culture or the atomizing of cultural authority? In exploring these questions, The Digital Literary Sphere takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while probing books’ and digital media’s complex contemporary coexistence.

The must-have resource for media selling in today’s technology-driven environment The revised and updated fifth edition of Media Selling is an essential guide to our technology-driven, programmatic, micro-targeted, mobile, multi-channel media ecosystem. Today, digital advertising has surpassed television as the number-one ad investment platform, and Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising marketplace. The authors highlight the new sales processes and approaches that will give media salespeople a leg up on the competition in our post-Internet media era. The book explores the automated programmatic buying and selling of digital ad inventory that is disrupting both media buyers and media salespeople. In addition to information on disruptive technologies in media sales, the book explores sales ethics, communication theory and listening, emotional intelligence, creating value, the principles of persuasion, sales stage management guides, and sample in-person, phone, and email sales scripts. Media Selling offers media sellers a customer-first and problem-solving sales approach. The updated fifth edition: Contains insight from digital experts into how 82.5% of digital ad inventory is bought and sold programmatically Reveals how to conduct research on Google Analytics Identifies how media salespeople can offer cross-platform and multi-channel solutions to prospects’ advertising and marketing challenge Includes insights into selling and distribution of podcasts Includes links to downloadable case studies, presentations, and planners on the Media Selling website Includes an extensive Glossary of Digital Advertising terms Written for students in communications, radio-TV, and mass communication, Media Selling is the classic work in the field. The updated edition provides an indispensable tool for learning, training, and mastering sales techniques for digital media.

Become a LinkedIn power user and harness the potential of social selling With the impact of COVID, remote working has become big, and so has the use of digital/virtual sales tools. More sales teams want and need to understand how to use social media platforms like LinkedIn to sell, and most do not use it properly. The Ultimate LinkedIn Sales Guide is the go-to book and guide for utilizing LinkedIn to sell. It covers all aspects of social and digital selling, including building the ultimate LinkedIn profile, using the searching functions to find customers, sending effective LinkedIn messages (written, audio & video), creating great content that generates sales, and all the latest tips and tricks, strategies and tools. With the right LinkedIn knowledge, you can attract customers and generate leads, improving your sales numbers from the comfort and safety of your computer. No matter what you are selling, LinkedIn can connect you to buyers. If you’re savvy, you can stay in touch with clients and generate more repeat sales, build trust, and create engaging content that will spread by word-of-mouth—the most powerful sales strategy around. This book will teach you how to do all that and more. In The Ultimate LinkedIn Sales Guide you will learn how to: Use the proven 4 Pillars of Social Selling Success to improve your existing LinkedIn activities or get started on a firm footing Create the Ultimate LinkedIn Profile, complete with a strong personal brand that could catapult you to industry leader status Generate leads using LinkedIn, then build and manage relationships with connected accounts to turn those leads into customers Utilize little-known LinkedIn “power tools” to grow your network, send effective messages, and write successful LinkedIn articles And so much more! The Ultimate LinkedIn Sales Guide is a must read for anyone wishing to utilise LinkedIn to improve sales.

Unlock the secrets of successful digital entrepreneurship with "Digital Profits." This beginner-friendly guide takes you through the essentials of setting up your digital store, crafting compelling products, and building a strong online presence. Learn practical strategies for pricing, marketing, and customer engagement, all distilled into actionable steps. Whether you're starting fresh or aiming to elevate your online business, "Digital Profits" is your go-to resource for turning digital dreams into profitable realities. Get ready to thrive in the competitive world of online selling!

Want to learn how to create digital products on your home laptop or computer and sell them for profit? Digital product creation is one of the best ways to generate a fast online income. Not only are they easy to make and simple to sell, they offer a number of big advantages over physical products: - 100% profit, with the only cost the time taken to create them - Can be sold all over the world 24/7 even while you're asleep in bed - Endless inventory with no shop and no stock holding required Paul Teague has been making digital products for over a decade and has several 6-figure launches to his name. He's sold thousands of online training products and e-books in that time and is passionate about the power of online sales as one of the best ways to do business in the 21st Century. He's now condensed a decade of experience into one book. Topics covered in How To Create & Sell Digital Products include: - Why Create & Sell Digital Products? - Digital Formats & Types of Product - Essential Tools For Digital Product Creation - Digital Product Creations Tips & Techniques - Product Delivery Tools - Going It Alone With Product Delivery - Digital Sales Platforms - Taking Payments Directly - Promotional Strategies To Boost Digital Product Sales - Product Support Options - Digital Product Creation Next Steps - How to re-purpose existing content for profit If you want to know how to create digital products which sell using only free and low-cost tools, you need to start reading How To Create & Sell Digital Products today.

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the “digital music commodity,” Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped reformat popular music’s meanings and uses. Through case studies of five key technologies—Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and cloud computing—this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods. Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding out of music’s encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.

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How to Get Started Selling Your Own Digital products Selling digital products is a great source of income for entrepreneurs—it's a semi passive income source because efforts are required for marketing your created products to attract traffic to your online Moneysites and provide customer support for them, unless such supporting services are being outsourced. It may seem like a pretty intimidating idea if you have never created your own product, but it really doesn't have to be that complicated, and in this ebook, we'll take a look at what is involved with creating your very own hot selling digital product. While there are endless possibilities when it comes to creating and selling digital products, there are a few types of products that tend to be the most common. This ebook will offer various in depth understanding to various options. If it's possible to make money by promoting other people's products as an affiliate, why would you want to go to the trouble of creating your own product? Well, there are several reasons to this , one of the most significant is the unlimited income potential and you will have full control over all the details of the product and its pricing, which is not the case if you are promoting a product as an affiliate. Many of the most successful technopreneurs have made it Big online and usually are with their own digital products. Having your own exclusive product is great for branding yourself as an authority on a particular subject. Think about it, which other businesses will allow you to work where, when and how you want? In case if you are wondering that this journey might involve thousands of dollars to invest and risk? Well, that has never crossed my mind as digital product business has little to NO RISK. There will be some expenses involved to register some domain names, get web hosting and perhaps outsource some content. But all in all, it will not exceed the price of an iPhone or a digital tablet as long you start with small steps. Another reason why you should start a digital product business is that it's a completely automated business. You set everything up once and simply drive traffic, all repeated sales income automatically will be deposited into your payment gateway account on 24/7 365 days, all at its own operation.