How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider's Guide to Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business

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Pearson Education, 2014 - Business & Economics - 216 pages

Set up, launch, and run your winning social/mobile media campaign! This guide is packed with actionable tools, techniques, and tips you can really use - all fully revamped for today's newest platforms and opportunities. Authors Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah have unsurpassed experience using social and mobile media to solve complex and difficult marketing challenges. Their How to Make Money with Social Media, Second Edition reads just like the conversation you'd want to have with them over coffee: it's friendly, upbeat, based on hard-won experience about what does (and doesn't) work, and focused on exactly what you need to know.

Step by step, Turner and Shah show you how to:

  • Define the right goals, strategies, and tactics - and then successfully execute on your plan
  • Integrate social and mobile marketing with your other marketing programs, so you can gain more value from all of them
  • Make the most of your resources, no matter how limited they are
  • Leverage YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and newer platforms
  • Measure brand sentiment, engagement, ROI, and more - and learn the right lessons from your metrics
  • Avoid crucial pitfalls that other companies are currently encountering

Every chapter includes easy-to-use tips in handy callouts and sidebars, concluding with Action Steps that answer today's #1 social/mobile marketing question: "What should I do next?"

Whether you're a marketer, entrepreneur, sales leader, or student, if you want to profit from social or mobile marketing, start right here.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 In the Beginning
1
Chapter 2 The Evolution of Marketing
11
Chapter 3 How to Think Strategically about Social Media
21
Chapter 4 How to Speak Social Media
31
Chapter 5 Laying the Groundwork for Success
39
Chapter 6 Why Your First Social Media Campaign Didnt Work
47
Chapter 7 Managing the Conversation
53
Chapter 8 Social Media Is More Than Just Facebook LinkedIn Google+ and Twitter
61
Chapter 15 How to Conduct a Competitive Assessment
123
Chapter 16 Conducting an Internal Situation Analysis
131
Chapter 17 Understanding the Customer Thought Process
137
Chapter 18 Establishing Your Major Objectives and Key Strategies
145
Chapter 19 Aligning Your Social Media Strategy with Your Brand Essence
153
Chapter 20 How to Measure the Impact of Your Social Media Campaign
159
Chapter 21 Measuring the Quantitative Data
167
Chapter 22 Measuring the Qualitative Data
175

Chapter 9 Closing the Loop with Email and Marketing Automation
69
Chapter 10 How to Use Networking Platforms to Help You Grow Your Sales and Revenue
79
Chapter 11 How to Use Promoting Platforms to Help You Grow Your Sales and Revenue
87
Chapter 12 How to Use Sharing Platforms to Help You Grow Your Sales and Revenue
95
Chapter 13 Its Not about Social or Mobile Its about Social and Mobile
103
Chapter 14 How to Integrate Social Media into Your Marketing Plan
115
Chapter 23 All Roads in Social Media Should Lead to ROI
183
Chapter 24 How to Ensure Your Social Media Campaign Runs Smoothly
191
Chapter 25 A StepbyStep Action Plan for Social Media Success
197
Index
205
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