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Build your brand, market your products, and gain a following on social media's hottest destination. This guide shows you how to nurture a following, encourage participation, and engage your audience as you implement effective marketing techniques!

"This comprehensive guide to developing an online marketing plan shows how to establish an online presence with social media, target consumers in different market segments and age brackets and turn online prospects into loyal customers"--

Marketing has changed forever-this is what comes next. Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital is the much-needed handbook for next-generation marketing. Written by the world's leading marketing authorities, this book helps you navigate the increasingly connected world and changing consumer landscape to reach more customers, more effectively. Today's customers have less time and attention to devote to your brand-and they are surrounded...

Attention is the new commodity. Visual Storytelling is the new currency. Human brain processes visuals 60,000x faster than text. Web posts with visuals drive up to 180% more engagement than those without. Viewers spend 100% more time on web pages with videos. Filled with full-color images and thought-provoking examples from leading companies, The Power of Visual Storytelling explains how to grow your business and strengthen your brand by leveraging...

"New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that really works. When managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they plan for the "right hook"--their next...

This is your step-by-step guide to using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and YouTube to promote your business. In 10 quick and easy steps, you will learn how to use social media effectively, establish a simple marketing plan and measure the results of your efforts. You'll learn the basics of building profile pages, and how to create appropriate content that can be accessed by thousands of potential customers. This new edition is packed...

Gary Vaynerchuk contends that the people and companies harnessing the word-of-mouth power provided by multiplatform media -- those that can shift their outlook and operations to be more customer-aware and fan-friendly -- will pull away from the pack and profit in today's markets.

Your business can't afford to be left behind, and if you need a guide through the social media maze, this book is just what you're looking for! Learn how to take full advantage of social media marketing while boosting your social media savvy.

The first edition of Marketing to the Social Web has become one of the strongly backlisting titles on the hot topic of social media. Three new chapters, and additional updates to this 2nd edition will enable the book to stay relevant and compete with the slew of business books on social media and marketing that will be releasing in the next 12 months. New chapters cover: Facebook: The Google Killer This chapter will discuss how Facebook will monetize...

How to effectively use Pinterest to market your business, product, or service

Pinterest, the rapidly growing social networking site that allows users to post and share images and videos on "pinboards" (a collection of "pins," usually with a common theme), is providing businesses and savvy entrepreneurs with a new platform to market their products and services. And, as with any new platform, learning what works best and what doesn't

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