Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business (Paperback)

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Profit from Facebook!

High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works!

 

With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is today’s fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods won’t work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from today’s smartest Facebook marketers...and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business you’re in, you’ll learn how to create bottom-up, “viral” Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost!

• Crafting your Facebook profile for maximum impact
• Getting into the Facebook community: crucial dos and don’ts
• Joining the right Facebook Groups—or starting your own
• Creating a Facebook blog that attracts paying customers
• Promoting products and services with free Facebook Marketplace classifieds
• Hosting your own Facebook events: from company picnics to concerts
• Successfully advertising on Facebook, without overspending
• Promoting your business within today’s most popular Facebook applications
• Tracking the results of your advertising
• Using brand-new viral video marketing techniques
• Driving even more Web traffic to your Facebook pages
• Building your own Facebook applications

Introduction 1

 

1 Targeting Your Profile 5

    Welcome to Facebook Marketing 5

    Welcome to Facebook 7

    Getting Started with Facebook 8

    The Profile Tab 12

        Across the Top 13

        The Search Bar 15

        Name, Photo, Networks, and Status 18

        The Mini-Feed Section 19

        The Friends and Friends in Other Networks Sections 19

        The Photos Section 21

        The Groups Section 23

        The Information Section 24

        The Education and Work Section 24

        The Gifts Section 25

        The Wall Section 25

        Editing Your Profile 25

        Setting Profile Privacy 27

    The Friends Tab 31

        Searching for Friends 31

        Managing Your Friends 33

        Creating Friend Lists 35

    The Inbox Tab 37

        Reading Messages 38

        Avoiding Spam 39

        Reading Notifications 39

        Composing Messages 40

    Getting Help 41

 

2 Facebook Groups 45

    Welcome to Facebook Groups 45

        Messaging Your Members 46

        A Word About Spam 46

    Joining Facebook Groups 47

        What Groups Are Available? 47

        Taking a Look at a Group 51

        How Do I Join a Group? 54

        Which Groups Can I Join? 54

    Creating Your Own Facebook Groups 55

        Creating Your Group 57

        Customizing Your Group 58

        Inviting Friends to Join Your Group 61

        Seeing Your New Group 65

    Managing Your New Group 67

        Deleting a Group 70

 

3 Creating Your Own Pages 71

    Welcome to Facebook Pages 71

    Pages from a Marketing Perspective 72

        Viral Marketing with Pages 73

        Page Authenticity 74

    Finding Pages 75

        Searching for Pages 76

        Browsing Pages by Type 78

        Browsing All Pages 79

    Becoming a Fan of a Page 80

    Examining a Page 83

    Sharing a Page 85

    Creating Your Own Page 88

    Examining Your New Page 92

    Editing Your Page 94

    Updating Your Fans 98

    Promoting Your Page 99

 

4 Hosting Your Own Facebook Events 101

    Welcome to Facebook Events 101

    All About Facebook Events 102

    Checking Out Your Friends’ Events 103

    Taking a Look at an Event 104

        The Information Section 106

        The Description Section 107

        The Other Information Section 109

        The Photos,Video, and Posted Items Section 109

        The Confirmed Guests Section 109

        The Other Invites Section 109

        The Wall 110

        The Event Type and Admins Section 110

    Adding an Event to Your Event List 110

    Browsing for Events 113

    Searching for Events 113

    Creating an Event 115

    Customizing an Event 117

        Uploading the Image for the Event 118

        Setting Event Options 118

        Setting Event Access 119

        Inviting People to Your Event 119

    Seeing Your Event 122

    Managing and Publicizing Your Event 124

        Message All Guests 1...

About the Author

Steven Holzner is the award-winning author of 112 books and has been a contributing editor at PC Magazine. His books have sold three million copies and have been translated into 18 languages.He specializes in web topics such as Facebook. He has been marketing his own companies on the Web for years, using marketplace experience; banner ads; Google,Yahoo!, and MSN pay-per-click campaigns; viral marketing; Usenet marketing; and more. He’s a web entrepreneur and has three online companies, which keep him busy.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (September 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789738023
• ISBN-13: 978-0789738028
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,804 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rough guide to Facebook. But not a how-to on social media marketing!, November 5, 2008

By	Jeff Lippincott "www.Jlippin.com" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I liked this book. I thought it was well written and well outlined. I'm not sure I would have included on the cover the following: "Leverage social media to grow your business." But the book provides a "rough guide" to Facebook. And I think it does a pretty good job.

Over the past year some leaders in the social media marketing realm have been materializing. Besides blogs of all kinds, it seems fair to me to say these leaders include MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I've read and reviewed the following books on some of these platforms:

YouTube for Business (ISBN: 9780789737977)
The Rough Guide to MySpace (ISBN: 9781843538424)
Amp Your MySpace Page (ISBN: 9780071490726)
I'm on LinkedIn, Now What? (ISBN: 9781600050695)

Until I read the instant book being reviewed I had not read any on Facebook. I am aware of "I'm on Facebook, Now What?" (ISBN: 9781600050954). But I haven't seen or read it. If it is anything like the book its author wrote on LinkedIn, then it is probably a good book. However, I think "Facebook Marketing" does a better job covering Facebook than the LinkedIn book did regarding LinkedIn.

This book is NOT about social media marketing per se. It is not going to tell you how to leverage social media in order to grow your business. You will have to read other books on that subject. And the coverage on that topic is expanding and changing as I write this review. What this book is about is the Facebook platform that can be used as a marketer's tool when practicing social media marketing. It tells us about User Profiles, Facebook Groups, how to create Web pages within Facebook, hosting events on Facebook, and other things that one can take advantage of at Facebook.

It's the "other things" that take up half the book that may be nice to know about. But I doubt they are practical for growing a business. But the first half of the book is worth its weight in gold for anyone who wants to use Facebook in a big way to practice social media marketing. 5 stars!

PS. Examine the Search Inside feature offered by Amazon on this book. It provides a detailed Table of Contents for you to examine and see for yourself what is included in this book.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Little more than a rehash of the menus, January 8, 2009

By	JCK "jayceekay" (MD, USA) - See all my reviews

I am glad I got this book from the library and didn't pay money for it. It is little more than a rehash of the menus. I am always disappointed in computer books that just list and describe menu items. There are maybe ten pages of worthwhile material. To make matters worse, all the screen shots are based on outdated formats. Save your money and search the internet for more useful and current information. Sorry to be so negative, but that's the way I see it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Facebook Marketing but "how to " , February 17, 2009

By	S. Hwong - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is just a "how to" use facebook. How to create Groups, Pages, Ads m but disguise as a marketing book. In some chapters, it has "cut and paste" information from Facebook. I was looking for case studies or examples but instead all the examples were the author's trying to rent out his town house. Not worth it!