Facebook® Marketing: An Hour a Day

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Edition: Original
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-01
Publisher(s): Sybex
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Summary

Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day is the ultimate step-by-step guide to developing a winning Facebook strategy, implementing the campaign, and then measuring and reporting on the results. The first part of the book quickly gets readers up to speed on today's Facebook conventions and demographics, and then outlines the broad strategic considerations marketers must consider. Readers are then guided step-by-step through crafting a successful initial presence on Facebook and then guided day-by-day through how to develop an overall Facebook marketing strategy by setting goals, defining metrics, developing reports, getting corporate buy-in, and integrating the Facebook strategy with other internet marketing activities.Readers are then shown how to execute on the strategy and leverage and incorporate all of Facebook's relevant features, including events, applications, advertising on Facebook's stand-alone pay-per-click platform, using Facebook Connect, and more. The final portion of the book discusses the marketing metrics that matter and how to update, monitor, refine, and maintain a Facebook marketing campaign.Full of interesting case studies, step-by-step guides, and hands-on tutorials and written in the popular An Hour a Day format, in which intimidating topics are broken down into easily approachable tasks, this book is sure to help marketers and others develop, implement, measure, and maintain a successful Facebook strategy.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Internet Marketing 1985-2010
The Humble Beginnings of Social Marketing
The Emergence of Social Networks
Social Media by the Numbers and by Feel
What Social Media in 2010 Tells Us about the Future of Marketing
Realistic Social Marketing Expectations
A Few Thoughts Regarding Consumer Engagement
What Is Facebook?
Social Networking and Social Media Defined
Social Network Landscape
Seven Truths of Social Networks
What You Want: Viral Marketing
Other Opportunities in Social Networking
Campaign Ideas
Facebook Basics
Friending
The News Feed
Develop a Facebook Strategy and Measure Success
Defining Your Facebook Presence
Close-Up of a Successful Social Media Campaign
Defining Your Social Media "Product"
Your Facebook To-Do List
Month 1: Create the Plan and Get Started
Lay the Groundwork
Draft and Present the Plan
Establish a Presence with the Facebook Profile and Friends
Use Basic Facebook Features to Promote Yourself
Month 2: Establish Corporate Presence with Pages and Groups
Learn About Pages and Groups
Determine and Execute Content Strategy
Add and Experiment with Content
Monitor and Modify the Plan
Month 3: Create Demand with Facebook Ads
Learn the Basics of Facebook Advertising
Build the Dashboard and Collect Data
Refine Your Campaign Using A/B and Multivariate Testing
Analyze and Adjust the Campaign
Month 4: Advanced Tactics and Campaign Integration
Understand Essential Advanced Tactics
Learn About Facebook Connect, Widgets, Fan Boxes
Integrate Your Efforts with Multichannel Marketing
Conduct Advanced Analytics
Customized Experiences via Facebook Applications
Facebook Applications: A Brief History
Facebook Apps Today
Optimize Your Fan Page with Apps
What You'll Need to Build a Facebook Application
Monetize Your App
The Future: Applications on Mobile Devices
The Analytics of Facebook
Keep Score with Metrics and Monitoring
Facebook Return on Investment and the Mayo Medical School
Measure Engagement with Insights
When Facebook Isn't Quite Enough: Landing Pages
Organizational Considerations
Roles and Responsibilities
How Facebook Works in Different Organizations
Resources
Some Final Tips on Facebook for B2B Marketing
Companion Website
Other Reading Material
Social Media Tools You Can Use
The Future of Facebook
Dave Kerpen
Scott McCaskill
Lauren Cooney
Jesse Stay
Nick O'Neill
Kevin Tate
Glossary
Index
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