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Electronic Selling: Twenty-Three Steps to E-Selling Profits

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Internet Sales and Security in a Nutshell
It is not that great book
Excellent guide to getting your business on the Web!

Electronic Selling: Twenty-Three Steps to E-Selling Profits
Brian Jamison , Josh Gold , and Warren Jamison
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Written by the co-founders of an agency that designs Web sites for major corporations, Electronic Selling: 23 Steps to E-Selling Profits provides an overview of the entire process for executives who don't have backgrounds in technology. Following a step-by-step action plan that moves from project conception through marketing assignments, it offers detailed information on critical topics like the actual mechanics of cyber sales and the issues surrounding online security. Numerous successful Web sales efforts also are profiled.

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At last: Sound strategies for E-selling success. Still waiting to be convinced your business can really make money on the Net? Pick up Electronic Selling: 23 Steps to E-Selling Profits, by Brian Jamison, Josh Gold and Warren Jamison, and get the action plan you need to handle everything from setting sales goals to choosing a payment system to attracting repeat Web business. Bursting with hands-on help for setting up and managing your own high-profit, 24/365, zero-commission, virtually unstaffed order operation, this plain-English primer steers you clear of dangerous Internet selling pitfalls... introduces you to Net cash payment service providers... shows you how to beat the security bugaboo for online transactions... serves up eye-opening success stories... guides you through organizing your Website for Net cash and credit card sales... and much, much more.

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Internet Sales and Security in a Nutshell.......1999-05-21

There is an old adage which says 'never judge a book by its cover'. Well, I don't know how a book with such an attractive cover could fall so short. Granted, the writing style is fluid, fast, and highly readable, and the organization is good; yet the content of Jamison and Gold's treatise on ecommerce seems to be missing something. Jamison and Gold do get to the point quickly in their text, but one has to wonder if there is something more to the internet and ecommerce than just sales and security as they boldly assert.

Organized into eight light and readable chapters, the book takes the reader on an in-depth tour of sales and security on the internet while at the same time introducing other vital areas such as website creation, maintainance, and promotion. The first five chapters, each roughly twenty pages long, are devoted to a skim tour of website development, marketing and promotion. By the end of the first chapter, the reader is thoroughly indoctrinated in all of the obligatory hype and marketing spin the internet is infamous for, and is encouraged by all means to jump on the modern incarnation of the American Goldrush. The second chapter outlines the internet selling process in twenty three steps, while chapters three, four and five are devoted to the various processes, strategies, and tools necessary to implement these twenty three steps. Chapters six and seven deal with the real meat of the book, sales and security issues respectively. Chapter eight profiles what Jamison and Gold believe to be ecommerce success stories; bear in mind that more than a few of these companies have yet to show a profit even after several years of operation. Four appendices containing useful information, such as a glossary of key terms, companies that are eager to get other companies on the eselling bandwagon, online transaction processing companies, and contact information for Jamison-Gold, round out the book.

On the plus side, the book did contain a very good overview of security related issues on the net, some of them even new to me, in a very understandable and non-technical fashion. The book was definitely written with an eye for the non-technical executive who is not very tech savvy, yet has money to spend.

On the minus side, on top of the usual marketing spin to be found in any internet book, the authors also include several shameless promotional plugs (some of it quite informative, but most of it annoying) for a variety of software companies. In more than a few cases, the authors merely grafted the marketing hype, advertising and promotional literature of the software companies featured in the book liberally throughout the text.

Finally, though the book is dated, and the terrain has changed drastically in the last two years, it does serve as a good introduction to and reference on sales and security issues related to ecommerce for those executives who are not in tune with the potential usefulness of the web in business. Bear in mind that the potential uses of the web and the internet are not solely limited to increasing sales, revenues, and ultimately profits, but also encompass increased productivity, efficiency, and faster communication and turn-around time in business- four significant and vital areas the authors failed to cover completely. A better book in the same category with well-rounded information is Phaedra Hise's Growing Your Business Online.

It is not that great book.......1999-04-19

It is not that great book. There are other great books out ther

Excellent guide to getting your business on the Web!.......1997-03-29

If you're business is not yet on the Internet, this book is an excellent resource to provide you with the tools to get you started with a Web site. It guides you through a simple 23 step to get you started. Very informative. No overly-technical gibberish. A must read for any business, large or small, interested in making money on the Net

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Electronic Selling: Twenty-Three Steps to E-Selling Profits
Josh Gold, Warren Jamison Brian Jamison
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFDTSG

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