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Shiv Singh
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (27 Oct 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0470289341
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470289341
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 235,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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

From the Back Cover

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


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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
By Geena D
Format:Paperback
When I ordered this book I was slightly concerned that it might not be suitable for someone who'd been practising marketing professionally for many years but I was completely wrong. This has proved my most useful reading on the topic so far, particularly in terms of identifying the opportunities for my business and putting together a plan. Each chapter is packed with ideas for approaching each phase of your social media plan and there are loads of web resources referenced for collating research and monitoring customer/prospect behaviour online. I was reading a chapter a day (about 30 mins), highlighting content I thought could be relevant and actions I wanted to take. Once I'd finished the book (couple of weeks), I went back to the pages I'd highlighted and realised I'd pretty much got the basis of my plan right there. I'd definitely recommend this book to any offline marketing practitioners that need to get up to speed quickly with social media.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
For the Advanced user 20 May 2010
By Wendy Jones TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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This is an extremely comprehensive book and I would therefore say it is aimed at the intermediatte to advanced user. In order to use it fully I would say that you need a sound grasp of marketing and the language and tools used within marketing. As someone new to both marketing and the use of social media within this I found some of it somewhat confusing. Saying that, I also found a lot about this book which was extremely useful. Having read it I now feel that I am more ready to use social media as a marketing tool, and will use many of the ideas the book provides. I would recommend this book for those within marketing who wish to harness the power of social media to expand their customer base.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Quite a good overview 17 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback
I bought this book to find out more about whether social media marketing could benefit my work and business. It was quite good with lots of comprehensive information. The book could be improved in the following ways:
- It mentions a LOT of different online tools but very rarely says whether they are free or what they cost.
- There's quite a lot of duplication, with some advice being given in several different chapters.
- I would have liked more advice on how to cut through all the hype that surrounds social media marketing in order to make an informed decision on whether it is a good opportunity for a particular business or campaign.

It was a useful book but I gained less practical knowledge from it than I expected.
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