Local Online Advertising For Dummies

394 Pages·2010·6.69 MB·English

by  Court Cunningham

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Court Cunningham is CEO of Yodle, a leading local online advertising ISBN 978-0-470-49742-5
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company that works with thousands of businesses. Before joining Yodle, he
held positions at Community Connect and Double Click. Stephanie Brown CEO of Yodle
is a local business consultant who has been helping businesses market
Stephanie Brown
online since 1994.
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Local Online
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by Court Cunningham and Stephanie Brown
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Local Online Advertising For Dummies®
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About the Authors
Court Cunningham is the CEO of Yodle, a leading local online advertising
company that works with over 6,000 local businesses across America. At
Yodle, Court oversees all aspects of operations and strategy, including
technology, product development, sales, and marketing. Prior to joining
Yodle, Court held the position of COO at Community Connect, a niche social
networking company, where he lead consumer marketing, product management,
and development efforts. Before that, as SVP/GM of the Marketing Automation
group at DoubleClick, he was instrumental in establishing DARTmail as the
industry leading e-mail marketing solution. Court received a BA in English
from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
For more information about Court and his company Yodle, go to www.yodle.com.
Stephanie Brown has been evangelizing Internet marketing since 1994. In
fact, she specializes in helping clients use many of the tools and techniques
contained in this book to grow their businesses. Over the years, she has
held management positions at marketing fi rms and Internet companies,
where she has led teams in creating customer-focused online solutions for
accounts big and small, local and national. Today she is a partner at Word
Communications, an integrated marketing fi rm in Albany, New York. Her
clients are a living laboratory for exploring the latest best practices — in
e-mail, social media, search marketing, landing page design, Web analytics
and optimization, and offl ine integration.
Stephanie can be reached at [email protected] or www.
wordcommunications.com.
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Dedication
Court Cunningham: I want to dedicate this book to all small business
owners, the hardest working people I know.
Stephanie Brown: This book is dedicated to the people and the dogs I
ignored during the researching and writing of it. (You know who you are.)
I also dedicate this book to my mother, Helga Olsson, and my stepmother,
Ruth Brown, whose examples have always taught me to persevere.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
Court Cunningham: A large number of people on the Yodle team played
signifi cant roles in creating this book — not the least of which was Cam
Lay — who was instrumental in helping to organize the content of this book,
leveraged his own marketing background to give us another set of eyes for
each and every chapter, and arduously provided the fi rst round of edits.
Additional content contributors from Yodle included Joseph Sievers, Michael
Baker, Arpan Jhaveri, Milind Mehere, and the invaluable John Switzer. Finally,
I want to thank the Yodle Marketing team members who provided further
feedback including Kara Silverman, Herman Mallhi, Allyse Coughlin, and
Alisa Adler — as well as our Senior Director of Marketing, Joel Laffer, who
encouraged me to do this book in the fi rst place.
Stephanie Brown: It would be a sin not to acknowledge the two people who
worked tirelessly (and occasionally feverishly) to bring the best out in this
book: Editorial Assistant David Idema, whose wry humor makes this a fun
read, and Yodle’s Cam Lay, whose steady support and gentle task-mastering
got us through. Eat your peas!
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