Donald I. Barker

Learn to market effectively using social media with the unique emphasis and best practices found only in SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: A STRATEGIC APPROACH, 3E. You learn how to create a strong personal brand that is invaluable at any stage of your career, as you master the social media techniques detailed throughout this popular book. Insightful discussions address both online and offline elements for creating a viable personal branding strategy. Expanded coverage of consumer behavior guides you in identifying with virtual communities and mastering visual storytelling. This edition delves deeper into using content marketing, while new chapters address managing today's digital marketing organization and using paid advertising and social media influencers. A step-by-step planning model leads you through creating an actual social media marketing plan. You also learn how to incorporate important branding strategies within your organization’s overall integrated marketing communication approach.

Prepare for a successful career in social media marketing or a related field with the unique emphasis found only in SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: A STRATEGIC APPROACH, 2E. Each chapter in this popular book includes a section on creating a personal brand, which is useful to current or future professionals at any stage of career development. This edition emphasizes how to use social media techniques, detailed in the book, to develop and maintain a strong personal brand. Helpful discussions also address a full range of online and offline elements you can use to create a viable personal branding strategy. You learn how to use graphical concepts to structure and strategize within what is otherwise a chaotic social media milieu. This edition summarizes many of today’s best practices for marketing activities on social media platforms to assist you in functioning most effectively and dealing with the rapid change that is a hallmark of social media.

With both conceptual and step-by-step lessons, this book teaches students the strategies and skills required to use the Internet as a valuable research tool.