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Top Web Business Books

Recommended Small Business & Web Business Books, Authors & Links

I have read all of the books below and I highly recommend each one of them. I have always wanted to be an expert Web person, which I realize is an ambiguous and somewhat nefarious term, and something I am still trying to become today and suspect I will always be working towards. But whatever it means, I realized early on that I would need to learn a lot. Whether you're a Web consultant, webmaster, or small business owner whose business at least partly relies on the Web, the following books will surely help you. (The links below will bring you to the Amazon pages where you can buy each one. They are affiliate links.)

- Jason OConnor, CEO Oak Web Works, LLC

Top Web Business Books

The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Business Website - The Non-Technical Person's Handbook For Hiring a Web Designer and Managing the Creation, Design & E-Marketing of a Successful Business Website - by Jason OConnor
Call to Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results - by Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, and Lisa T. Davis
The Death of "e" and the Birth of the Real New Economy : Business Models, Technologies and Strategies for the 21st Century - by by Peter Fingar and Ronald C. Aronica
Strategies for E-Business Success - by Erik Brynjolfsson and Glen Urban
The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better - by Seth Godin
Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas - by Seth Godin
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers - by Seth Godin
The One to One Fieldbook - by by Don Peppers, Martha Rogers, and Bob Dorf
Web Business Engineering: Using Offline Activities to Drive Internet Strategies - by Nick V. Flor
The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense - by Joel Comm
Place to Space: Migrating to Ebusiness Models - by Peter Weill & Michael Vitale
Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online - by Robert G. Allen

Top General Business Books

The E Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - by Michael E. Gerber
What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business - by Harry Beckwith
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success - by Brian Tracy
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - by Jim Collins
How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know - by Jeffrey J. Fox
Hypnotic Writing: How to Seduce and Persuade Customers with Only Your Words - by Joe Vitale
Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion - by Robert B. Cialdini
Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping - by Paco Underhill

Top Interent/Web General Books

The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture - by John Battelle
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web - by Tim Berners-Lee
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual - by Christopher Locke

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