The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 17, 2009 - Business & Economics - 608 pages
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:

  • Increase your company and brand value by engaging people in new forms of communication, collaboration, education, and entertainment
  • 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 the tools 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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Contents

CHAPTER
3
Everyones a Publisher
58
CHAPTER 9
119
CONTENTS
125
CHAPTER 10
193
CHAPTER 12
210
Got Audio? Audio Sharing
223
CHAPTER 13
231
Audio
509
Video
519
Microblogging
533
Livecasting
539
Virtual Worlds
551
Gaming
561
Productivity Applications
571
Aggregators
599

CHAPTER 14
244
Virtual WorldsReal Impact
305
Virtual Gaming
325
RSS Really Simple Syndication Made Simple
343
Spotlight on Search Search Engine Optimization
355
Marketing Yourself Search Engine Marketing
373
The Formidable Fourth Screen Mobile
391
CHAPTER 15
398
Let the Conversation Begin Interpersonal
417
CHAPTER 16
442
PART II
447
Social Networks
449
Publish
473
Photo
493
RSS
615
Search
623
Mobile
639
Interpersonal
655
The Four Pillars of Social Media Strategy
673
Your Social Media SWOT Analysis
699
The ACCESS Model
717
Evaluate and Organize Existing Resources
743
Your Implementation Plan
757
theSocialMediaBible
774
BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR EXPERTS
775
INDEX
787
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

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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