Series: For Dummies
Paperback: 840 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (April 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118951352
ISBN-13: 978-1118951354
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.6 x 9.3 inches
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I've been self-employed since 1993 and have owned four businesses. I currently have my own website where I sell products internationally, and I'm on several social media sites. I'm just not a marketer, and I hoped this book would help me understand how to use the various social media sites. As a small business owner, I don't have a lot of money or time, and here was one book that I thought would teach me everything I needed to know to grow my customer base using social media. But I think this book is geared more toward large businesses with ample staff (and funds) to handle the ins and outs of researching, designing, and executing a grand social media marketing plan.The first third of the book covers topics such as developing a marketing plan, establishing your target market, determining ROI, researching and segmenting your market, building your marketing team, setting policies, copyright issues, protecting brand reputation, using ecommerce tools, keywords, SEO, link building, etc. There's no scarcity of paid programs and products offered to help you and your "team" research and execute. I consider these business basics, not social media-specific aspects of marketing.So I slogged through this tedious (and repetitive) introductory information to get to the meat of the different platforms only to find a bunch of appetizers and no actual meal. You'll learn how to set up your social media accounts and do some basic structuring, but there's nothing here to get the brain to brainstorm, nothing that inspired me. This book refers you to other Dummy books specific to the social media platforms of interest.
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