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Learn how easy it is for your market to get your message

Nowadays, if you’re not tweeting, Facebooking, or blogging, what are you doing? Everyone has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, or a blog—even celebrities! With the popularity of social networking comes the need to learn about social media marketing. Social media marketing is a cheaper and highly effective way to spread up-to-the-minute news; an easy, inexpensive way to enlarge your audience, customers, and business.

Social Media Marketing For Dummies provides an indispensable resource for small businesses and start-ups looking for low-cost online marketing strategies, as well as for marketers in larger companies who want to be more involved with social media. Learn which social media site best fits you and your business and how to:

  • Use Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and other social media outlets to full advantage
  • Create your own online spokesperson for your brand
  • Identify social media sites that appeal to your target audience
  • Tell which social platform works for which objectives
  • Develop a unique, Google-able voice in social media
  • Optimize your page to attract clicks and customers
  • Set up a program to assess your success and measure your results

Social Media Marketing helps you learn the art of social media marketing to build your business to its full potential. Includes contributions by Michael Becker, Jeannette Kocsis and Ryan Williams

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Your customers are already buzzing on social media sites; make the buzz work for you!

Social media marketing is an up-to-the-minute way to spread the word about your business. This book will help, whether you're a small or startup operation or a big corporation looking to get closer to your customers. Identify social media sites that appeal to your target audience, evaluate niche communities, develop your voice, and measure your results.

  • What it is — see how Twitter®, blogs, Facebook® fan pages, and YouTube® videos can enlist your customers to promote your brand

  • Why it works — understand how consumers influence one another in social networks

  • Funneling the media — learn how to make social media marketing a part of the marketing funnel

  • Find your voice — identify recognizable people in your organization who can represent your brand in the social Web, yet be individual and authentic

  • What's in it for them — explore incentives for your customers

  • Measure the effect — discover how to apply metrics to Facebook fan pages, viral video views, widget downloads, and tweets

  • You can't fake it — get familiar with social media and be sure your spokespeople are credible

  • Link up — find out how to link your Web site to the social Web

Open the book and find:

  • Why social influence drives successful marketing

  • How to develop the right voice for social media

  • The big and small sites ideal for marketing

  • Where the influencers hang out and how to get their help

  • Strategies for getting employees involved

  • Steps for getting your message to mobile users

  • Ways to blend traditional marketing with social media

  • Best practices of the social media experts


Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies (October 26, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470289341
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470289341
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,859 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must read. Insightful and practical, November 16, 2009
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I really enjoyed this book and found it both extremely thought provoking and practical. It has some smart insights, introduces a clear framework for understanding and approaching social media marketing and then explains the specifics of how to market on each of the social media platforms while recognizing that this is part of the marketing puzzle and not the whole one. It really seems like a one stop shop in terms of covering the basics, the more strategic concepts (including mobile social media) and the practicalities of what you can "buy" and "earn" across the social web. I definitely recommend this book to read. Its thoughtful, specific and actionable and not hype driven. The author obviously has a lot of experience in this space and it shows.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read even if you're not a dummy, November 16, 2009
Great resource for marketers looking to incorporate social strategies and tactics but not sure where to begin. Covers a wide variety of topics which makes it helpful for anyone needing best practices and tips regardless of industry or market size. Well done Shiv!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read and required to help understand and excell with social media marketing, November 13, 2009
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This is a great read, covering both the basics and advanced elements for Social Media Marketing. His deep academic, practical, and hands on understanding is unmatched. If you want your digital properties to be found, you must master this.
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