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Poor Richard

Purchase options:
* £15.16 amazon.co.uk

* $23.96 amazon.com

Details:
* ISBN 0966103270

* Published by Top Floor Publishing

* Written by Peter Kent, Tara Calishain

* Book published October 1999

Other opinions:
* Review and customer comments at amazon.co.uk

Title:

Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotions

Review:

If you were to ask me to tell you about Internet promotion then I'd probably politely invite you to do your own homework. The skills of creating and marketing a successful Web site are always self-taught, and they involve reading loads of magazines, email newsletters and scanning hundreds of discussion postings. If you put in the work and commitment, then over time you will find yourself with a Web site which is very popular and achieves your objectives ... although you can't quite remember all the methods and tricks you used to get there.

Well, I have discovered a book (and not before time) which I believe is the most comprehensive and readable companion in the tricky field of online promotion. How I wish I'd had it two years ago at the birth of Free Pint, with sections on everything, including site creation, selling, search engines, how to locate your audience, advertising, affiliate programs, tracking results, using email, reaching journalists, real-world promotions ... in fact the table of contents runs to 12 pages (I kid ye not).

Now, you may have gathered that I quite like this book. Maybe I'm biased because the author seems to have taken a similar path to me in finding out what works and what doesn't. Sometimes whilst reading I would question a suggestion, however the author somehow manages to read your mind and puts it at ease in the next paragraph.

So, what do other people think? Well, these Americans are much better than we British at blowing our own trumpets, and as soon as you open the book there are five pages of compliments for Peter Kent's earlier books (and justifiably so it appears). OK, so what are customers saying at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com ... they all love it.

Therefore, I have no hesitation in saying that if you have are trying to promote "Yourself, Your Business and Your Ideas Online" (as the strapline says) then you could do little better than to read all 400 pages of this super guide to Internet marketing.

Related Free Pint links:

Internet marketing and advertising books on the Free Pint Bookshelf

Links to previous articles on Web marketing in the Free Pint Guide

Free Pint Reviewer:

William Hann is founder and Managing Editor of Free Pint.

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Readers Comments:

"I was prompted to read this book by the review in Free Pint and found it really excellent." Tom Szczepanik

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