Updated Fall, 2019 Edition of the SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING book! Learn Social Media Marketing for business step by step in this new, 2019 book on social media by Jason McDonald. Used in his classes at Stanford Continuing Studies, the Social Media Marketing Workbook has become a beloved classic among small business owners and marketing managers. Why? The reason is that this is one of the best selling social media marketing books, one that lays it out clearly step-by-step. The book begins with content marketing, proceeds through each major platform (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube) and helps you to make a plan for how to market a business on social media. The book is based on an analogy - that social media is like a party and that you are the 'party thrower.' You need content just as you'd need food and entertainment, you need a promotion strategy just as you'd need invitations, and you need a systematic understanding of each social platform, just as you'd need a lot of technical knowledge to throw a great wedding or a great corporate meet-and-greet. Indeed, you'll be throwing a 'party with a purpose, ' using social media marketing to build your brand and ultimately sell more stuff. Compare the Social Media Marketing Workbook to other books out there on the topic. It plays well with Social Media Marketing for Dummies, for example, and is an excellent companion to more conceptual books like Crushing It or Building a StoryBrand. It's the perspiration to their inspiration. It's the zig to their zag, and it's a book that gives you more than 500 social media marketing tips. It provides practical, hands-on knowledge for 2018 and 2019. Got questions? Just Google the author, Jason McDonald, and send him a quick email or message. The book includes massive links, videos, resources, and an amazing companion toolbook with free social media tools. It's a must buy book.

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SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: A STRATEGIC APPROACH, International Edition promises to be the seminal textbook in the field with its distinctive conceptual foundation and practical approach to developing successful social media marketing plans. A proven eight-step social media planning model provides students with a cumulative learning experience, showing them how to construct social media strategies that achieve desired marketing goals.

WINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2020 - Marketing and Advertising category WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Business: Small Business and Entrepreneurship category WINNER: BookAuthority Best New Book to Read in 2020 - Social Media Marketing category FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - International Business Book category Social networks are the new norm and traditional marketing is failing in today's digital, always-on culture. Businesses across the world are having to face up to how they remain relevant in the choppy waters of the digital ocean. In an era where a YouTube star gets more daily impressions than Nike, Coca-Cola and Walmart combined, traditional marketing as we know it is dead. The End of Marketing revolutionizes the way brands, agencies and marketers should approach marketing. From how Donald Trump won the American presidency using social media and why Kim Kardashian is one of the world's biggest online brands, through to the impact of bots and automation, this book will teach you about new features and emerging platforms that will engage customers and employees. Discover bold content ideas, hear from some of the world's largest brands and content creators and find out how to build smarter paid-strategies, guaranteed to help you dominate your markets. The End of Marketing explains that no matter how easy it is to reach potential customers, the key relationship between brand and consumer still needs the human touch. Learn how to put 'social' back into social media and claim brand relevancy in a world where algorithms dominate, organic reach is dwindling and consumers don't want to be sold to, they want to be engaged.

MARKETING MADE EASY - Step by Step to a Marketing Plan for Your Business! 2019 Updated Edition A practical marketing book by Jason McDonald of Stanford Continuing Studies Do you own a business? Or, perhaps, do you work at a business as the marketing manager? Do you want to learn the basics of how to market your business in an easy-to-use format? Well, if so, then THE MARKETING BOOK is the book for you. This is a PRACTICAL step-by-step guide to basic marketing concepts. It's goal: to help you create a practical marketing plan for your business using the think / do / measure method of marketing. Each Chapter teaches a marketing task by, first, explaining how to think about the concept, second, giving you specific to-dos to actually go do it, and third, providing tips on how to measure what's working (and what's not) to do it better over time. Marketing is harder than it looks, and so this is one of the best books on marketing, breaking marketing down into - THE FIVE KEY ACTIVITIES OF MARKETING EXPLAINED STEP BYSTEP: Define what you sell, that they want. Build your brand. Make yourself easy-to-find. Create compelling content. Think and deploy; that is, promote your brand across digital and non-digital channels. One of the Best Marketing Books of 2018 for Beginners and Experts Alike Jason McDonald - written by a successful practitioner of digital marketing. Just Google 'SEO Expert Bay Area' or 'SEO Expert Witness'. He's there at the top! Stanford University - used by Dr. McDonald in his courses, both online and on campus, at Stanford University's Continuing Studies An Easy to Follow Method - written in PLAIN ENGLISH for MERE MORTALS. Learn how to do MARKETING step by step. Got Questions? - just Google 'Jason McDonald' and send a quick email or call. Mention 'the Marketing Book.'