eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing

In writing eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing, marketing guru Rob Stokes, along with CEO Sarah Blake of Quirk eMarketing, consolidated 11 years of real online marketing experience at Quirk into a full length textbook, drawing from both academic theory and practical experience.

There is no doubt about it’the Internet has changed the world we live in. Never before has it been so easy to access information; communicate with people all over the globe; and share articles, videos, photos, and all manner of media. The Internet has led to an increasingly connected environment, and the growth of Internet usage has resulted in the declining distribution of traditional media: television, radio, newspapers, and magazines. Marketing in this connected environment and using that connectivity to market is eMarketing.

EMarketing embraces a wide range of strategies, but what underpins successful eMarketing is a user-centric and cohesive approach to these strategies. While the Internet and the World Wide Web have enabled what we call new media, the theories that led to the development of the Internet have been developing since the 1950s.