Author

Elliott King

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A Brief History of the Internet (Part 1)

From an Amstrad CPC in the 1980s to Silicon Valley at the height of the Dot-Com frenzy, Part 1 traces how the internet grew up. The lesson: innovation requires public readiness, and timing decides who survives the correction.

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Chapter 8: Creating a Branded Video Series

A single great video is a moment; a series is a relationship. Chapter 8 walks through the five steps of branded episodic video, from strategy and planning to production, editing and distribution.

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Chapter 3: Strategic Marketing Planning

Chapter 3 builds the marketing plan: the FiMO model, vision, values and mission, SMART objectives, customer personas and the USP your marketing messages will carry into every channel.

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Chapter 7: Websites

Chapter 7 turns the website into your hardest-working asset: a planning document before any design, the sitemap-wireframes-visuals process, and the conversion discipline that lifts sales 50% on identical traffic.

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Chapter 9: Managing an Integrated Strategy

The closing chapter of Marketing Wins: the four personality traits every marketing team needs, the cure for lazy marketing, and how to blend digital, PR and traditional tactics into one integrated strategy that drives sales.

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Chapter 6: Social Media

Social media turned marketing from broadcast into dialogue. Chapter 6 covers reach, engagement, the key channels and the three pillars of a winning social strategy.

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Chapter 1: Brief History of Marketing

From the broadcast-and-hope era of print, TV and radio to the customer-led digital funnel: Chapter 1 sets the context every later chapter builds on, closing with Elliott's first-hand account of the dot-com boom and crash.

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