Social Media 101 : Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online

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Pub. Date: 2010-02-01
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Summary

100 ways to tap into social media for a more profitable businessIn Social Media 101, social media expert and blogger Chris Brogan presents the best practices for growing the value of your social media and social networking marketing efforts. Brogan has spent two years researching what the best businesses are doing with social media and how they're doing it. Now, he presents his findings in a single, comprehensive business guide to social media.You'll learn how to cultivate profitable online relationships, develop your brand, and drive meaningful business. Brogan shows you how to build an effective blog or website for your business, monitor your online reputation and what people are saying about your business online, and create new content to share with your customers. Presents specific strategies, tactics, and tips to improve your business through improved social media and online marketing Looks at social media and the wider online universe from a strictly business perspectiveIf you aren't using the Internet and social media to market your business and stay in touch with your customers, you're already falling behind. The Social Media 100 gives you 100 effective, proven strategies you need to succeed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why in the World Should You Care ?
Above All Else-People
What Social Media Does Best
Social Media Does Not Replace Marketing Strategy
Making Business Sense of Social Media
Social Media as Personal Power
Social Media for Your Career
Threading Some Trends Together
The Vital Importance of Your Network
Using Social Networking and Media Offline
Velocity, Flexibility, Economy
Snake Oil in Social Media
Who Cares?
Participation: The Key to Social Media
Social Media Is a Set, Not a Part
Media Is a Mix-Get Mixing
Social Media Starter Pack
Five Starter Moves for Introducing Social Media into Your Organization
Five Starter Moves: Should Blogging Go Next?
Five Starter Moves: Audio and Video
Five Starter Moves: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter
A Sample Social Media Toolkit
Social Media and Social Network Starting Points
What Friends and Seinfeld Teach You about Growing Your Audience
Twitter Revisited
Case Study: For Those Who Pea on Social Media
Basic Business Blogging Suggestions
A Sample Blogging Work Flow
If You Intend to Blog Seriously
Performance and Your Audience: Blogging Tips
Some Tips to Fine-Tune Your Blog
How to Create Business from a Blog
50 Blog Topics Marketers Could Write for Their Companies
Growing Your Audience: Some Basics
Be Effective in Meetings, and Use Social Media Tools
Programming for the Masses: Social Computing
Creatives and Your Secret Mission
Advice for Traditional and Local News Media
Social Networks Are Your Local Pubs
Facebook and the Social Graph: Who Benefits?
The Value of Networks
Five Things to Do at a Social Networking Meetup
Delivering Content Value to Market Your Product
The Community Play
The Power of Links
Authority, Ownership, and Mechanics
Enabling Peer Collaboration Using Social Networks
10 Ways to Make Your Next Conference Better
Who Is Secretly Pitching You?
The Sound of Content Ripping Free from Its Page
Social Media-Talk Is Cheap for Businesses
The Community Ecosystem
Social Media Starter Moves for Freelancers
Making a Business from Social Media
Make Your Blog Design Work for You
Social Media Starter Moves for Real Estate
How Do Realtors Demonstrate Community?
Social Media Starter Moves for Entertainers
Social Media Starter Move for Entrepreneurs
Customer Service Needs New Channels...or Does It?
What I Want a Social Media Expert to Know
On Managing a Community
Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You
Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online: Part 1
Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online: Part 2
100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media
Blog Topics for Business-to-Business Customers
Starting a Social Media Strategy
Social Media Strategy: The Planning Stage
Social Media Strategy: Aligning Goals and Measurements
Writing E-mail That Gets Answered
Where I Learn Even More
What Do You Think People Want from Your Site
Musicians Play for Tips: The Importance of Comments
50 Ways Marketers Can Use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
Should Hotels Have Social Networks?
Essential Skills of a Community Manager
50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice
How to Reach and Influence Prospects
How Content Marketing Will Shake the Tree
Write Your LinkedIn Profile for Your Future
Consider a Marketing Funnel
Content Networks and Storefronts
How to Do More with Less Time
Creating Honest Content Marketing
How I Do It
What I Want PR and Marketing Professionals to Know
Best Social Media Advice from chrisbrogan.com
Index
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