Web design for serious, business applications:
BooksThese are not books about how to build a web site. They are books about how to build a web business and about how to write effective advertising copy for your web site.
Tested
Advertising Methods by John Caples, Fred E. Hahn 
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In most advertising books, you get clever ideas on ads. Some of those ads may
have worked, and some may have flopped. If you want tested advertising methods,
then get the book "Tested Advertising Methods". If you want one book that will
show you how to sell a product or service, then get this book.
(This book discusses statistical studies of what was found to work and not work in old-fashioned direct-mail advertising in magazines over the years. In these you could get actual feedback on which ads worked and which didn't. They are a perfect analogy to today's web based advertising with immediate user response, and much more relevant than studies TV or other non-interactive advertising.)
Advertising
Secrets of the Written Word : The Ultimate Resource on How to Write Powerful
Advertising Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters by Joseph Sugarman,
Dick Hafer (Illustrator)
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A step-by-step process on how to write effective advertising copy from
one of the nation's top copywriters and mail order entrepreneurs. You'll
learn how to take any product or service and discover what key words
and techniques will sell that item to a mass market or a small niche
area. There are many ad examples which give compelling insights into
the buying process, the use of salesmanship in advertising and the techniques
that the author uses to grab attention and keep it while convincing prospects
to exchange their hard-earned money to buy a product or service.
Net
Results.2 : Best Practices for Web Marketing by Leland Harden (Editor),
Bob Heyman, Rick Bruner 
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Reveals the proven strategies used by the authors to execute profitable and
successful online marketing campaigns for such companies as America Online
and Barnes and Noble. Filled with expert advice from three online pioneers
who have twenty years of collective online marketing experience.
Internet
Direct Mail : The Complete Guide to Successful E-Mail Marketing Campaigns
by Stevan Roberts, Michelle Feit, Robert W. Bly
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Price: $39.95
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Direct marketing via the Internet is the best way to avoid the rising printing
and mailing costs of traditional direct mail. Plus, it's more effective! An
online campaign will often turn a profit even if the entire mailing produces
only 1 percent response or less! If you're ready to try e-mail marketing, or
if you're already doing it and want to know more, Internet Direct Mail has
all the information you need.
E-Service
: 24 Ways to Keep Your Customers-When the Competition Is Just a Click Away
by Ron Zemke, Thomas K. Connellan
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Price: $25.00
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The Web has made the concept of "competitive edge" into a virtual anachronism.
Location means little, and vendors can routinely beat each other's prices and
offerings at a moment's notice. So how can an e-business differentiate itself?
How can it stop fickle surfers in their tracks and turn them into loyal buyers?
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Eternal E-Customer: How Emotionally Intelligent Interfaces Can Create Long-Lasting
Customer Relationship by Bryan Bergeron, Ray Kurzweil
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Price: $27.95
Explains why Emotional Interfaces are a critical factor to e-commerce success
and how to take advantage of this new technology. Provides clear examples and
advice for turning collected customer data into a strong competitive advantage.
Place
to Space : Migrating to Ebusiness Models by Peter Weill, Michael Vitale
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Price: $35.00
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Weill, director of the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan
School, and Vitale, dean and director of the Australian Graduate School of
Management, identify and examine eight "atomic e-business models" and propose
ways these can be adapted to create individualized e-business initiatives in
all types of existing firms.
World
Wide Web Marketing, 3rd Edition by Jim Sterne
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Sterne shows how to apply classic marketing strategies to the latest technologies
and explores the Web's impact on the way we do business. Readers will find
expert guidance on how to take advantage of hot new technologies and Web marketing
tools