Killer Content: Value Strategies for Web Content and E-commerce (Information Technology) Book

In just a few short years, the World Wide Web has turned traditional retail business models upside down. Killer Content describes how to adapt your business, application, and network topologies to meet the needs of the most important new breed of customer--the online consumer. A well-rounded guide for IT professionals and system architects, this book defines the changing models for Web-based commerce and shows you how to correlate the demands and rewards of digital commerce and adapt them to your own business environment. Killer Content explains this important value-add information for maintaining your content-driven business. In addition to learning about the emerging digital assets and consumer communities, the author examines a series of case studies from Internet groundbreakers such as Priceline.com, TheStreet.com, Salon, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com. The book explains how these innovative companies generated revenue by understanding the needs of Net users. Killer Content also examines the emerging services and issues around digital commerce, such as personalization, privacy, and payment. Other key topics include: The business models in digital commerce that generate real return-on-investment for content sites A profile of the business problems and personal goals that drive the online consumer's browsing and navigation patterns A synopsis of the different technologies available to implement and manage digital commerce An in-depth summary of the technical challenges of delivering products ordered over the Internet Read More