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The Ultimate Guide To Social Media Marketing
The Social Media Bible will show you how to build or transform your business into a social media—enabled enterprise where customers, employees, and prospects connect, collaborate, and champion your products, your services, and your way of doing business.
Using the systematic approach presented in this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to:
Determine which social media tactics you should be using with your customers and employees
Evaluate and categorize the tools and applications that constitute the rapidly evolving social media ecosystem
Make social media tools like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, blogging, podcasting, and hundreds of others a part of your business strategy
Do a social media analysis inside your company to improve internal operations and outside your company to create and monetize relationships with customers and prospects
Implement social media micro- and macrostrategies to give your business the competitive edge it needs to survive and thrive
Virtually every business can use social media to increase sales and profits, and The Social Media Bible will show you how. Part One introduces you to social media, and gives you a helpful framework, and presents practical and tactical tips for using some of these tools. Part Two introduces you to over 100 social media tools and applications in fifteen different categories, giving you a quick rundown of the features and functions of thetools that should become part of your social media strategy. Part Three offers mini exercises and assessments to help you conduct a social media audit of your company, your competition, and your customers, so you can craft the perfect strategy for your business.
If you want to grow your business, you have to stay connected to your stakeholders- whether you're a big corporation, a small business, or even a nonprofit. The Social Media Bible will show you how to harness the collective wisdom and viral value of your stakeholders and stay ahead of your competition.
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Lon Safko is an innovator and professional speaker with more than twenty years of experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, strategic partnering, speaking, training, writing, and e-commerce. He is the founder of eight successful companies, including Paper Models, Inc., and www.LonSafko.com.
David K. Brake is the CEO and founder of Content Connections, a company that uses social media strategies to help clients build economically viable relationships around their content. Visit him at www.DKBrake.com and www.contentconnections.com.
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August 11, 2009: Do you tweet or troll? Lurk or plurk? Do you have Facebook friends or a LinkedIn list? Are you a virtual world resident with a beguiling or scary avatar? What is your favorite aggregator or rich site summary (RSS) service? Are you happy with your Yelp rating? Do you have a Meebo login? You know Google, but do you know Redlasso or IceRocket? What is your favorite wiki beyond Wikipedia? Like it or not, it is increasingly difficult to function in today's technology-obsessed world without becoming an Internet geek. You need to know how to get the most out of the Web. For that, turn to Lon Safko and David K. Brake. Their comprehensive guide to the perplexing online world explains the Internet-based social media, including how to use its networks and tools to build a marketing campaign. getAbstract recommends this smart, thorough, useful book to any businessperson who sees a single unfamiliar word in this paragraph.
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July 25, 2009: Ron's book, The Social Media Bible, came along at just the right time. I'm working in marketing in a new start up company. Our goal is to maximize our marketing budget and establish our brand on an international level. Using the Social Media Bible as a "How To" guide we were able to improve existing programs and initiate programs that we hadn't thought about. I encountered one problem, emailed Ron, and got a quick response that helped me better understand what I needed to do. Ya gotta love the power of the internet and social media! Ron's book was the right tool at the right time, I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to take advantage of internet marketing opportunities.
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