"The Bible of Digital Marketing", the best-seller book of the digital marketing guru Claudio Torres, is used as the textbook in many digital marketing undergraduate and MBA programs in Universities, guiding thousands of consultants and companies around the world.This book presents a comprehensive view of digital marketing, digital technology, and digital transformation. It is useful for marketing and business executives, entrepreneurs, advertising professionals, marketing and business students, and anyone that needs to understand how to work in the digital ecosystem.At this book, you will learn about the Digital Ecosystem, Digital Agents, Digital DNA, and its constructive and functional components. Also about what is and how to build a Digital Identity, as a combination of three digital footprints: the Persona, the Presence, and the Influence. You will see how to develop a Digital Culture for your business and its four dimensions: Consumer, Influencer, Collaborator and Specialist, and the four Digital Strategies to manage the digital culture: Digital marketing; Digital engagement; Digital empowerment; Digital management.Finally, you will dive into the seven digital marketing strategies: Talk, Interact, Spread, Tell, Push, Search and Track, and the Digital Excellence Process to implement and keep them.WHY YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK?Today, in the business world, either you understand what's going at the digital world or you're devoured by the market. Understanding the Internet and the digital environment is no longer a matter of choice. Do not hide behind the idea that it is possible to do marketing without the Internet. Don't make a mistake, thinking that just creating a website solves your problems. As the Sphinx would say: the wrong answer.As you become aware of the importance of the Internet in your marketing strategy and your business, you still have to decipher the riddle, for which without a correct response you do not enter the palace, that is, you do not enter the Internet.When you hear about digital marketing, online advertising, web marketing, mobile marketing, inbound marketing, or any other similarly creative names used to describe this, we are talking about effectively using digital technologies as marketing tools, involving communication, advertising, and the whole arsenal of strategies and concepts already known in marketing theory.And when we talk about marketing, make no mistake, we are also talking about sales, attracting new customers, maintaining customer loyalty, and ultimately doing business. As some companies divide the marketing and sales areas into two departments, many people end up creating the misconception that they are two distinct things when in fact, sales are a part of marketing. It is one of its products, but not the only one. Selling profitably, fostering customer loyalty, expanding the business and valuing the brand in the market - these are all functions of marketing. Effectively using digital technologies as marketing tools means taking action, creating an active marketing strategy, ensuring that it is executed and that its results are effective. It is not enough to act like the man who meets with a friend and asks them: 'what will the weather be like today?' to which the friend responds: 'ask me again at the end of the day.'Doing anything and waiting for the result to then think about whether the strategy was good was the behavior adopted in the early days of the Internet, and what caused the dot-com bubble burst in the 2000s. Today some theorists call it "failing fast" and try to convince us that this is the right way. I do not think so. Creating new experiences and being innovative is important, and they may be one of your business strategies, but the hope is not a strategy. Your planning must be coherent, consistent and based on an effective model, and can also be complemented with experimental and innovative actions.
