Social Media Marketing - Softcover

Tuten, Tracy L.; Solomon, Michael R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9351509249 ISBN 13: 9789351509240

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

The book provides an interesting insight into how the power of social media tools can be harnessed to succeed in business, non-profit organisations and any situation that involves buyers, sellers, makers and users. 

Social Media Marketing effectively demonstrates how social media fits into and complements the marketer’s toolbox. The book melds essential theory with practical application as it covers core skills such as strategic planning for social media applications, incorporating these into the execution of the brand’s marketing communications and harnessing social media data to yield customer insights.

This book outlines the ‘Four Zones’ of social media (namely, community, publishing, entertainment and commerce) that marketers can use as a part of their strategic planning processes to achieve their core objectives. This second edition includes new examples of industry developments and academic research to help students remain current in their marketing studies. 

Key Features
· Comprehensive, strategic, well-organised and result-oriented coverage
· Integration of latest examples and research data  available in a user-friendly layout
· Free companion website with PowerPoint slides, instructor’s manual, test bank and additional case studies

 

About this title

About the Author

Tracy L. Tuten, Ph.D., is a professor of marketing and author of several books including co-author of the award-winning textbook, Social Media Marketing. Her first book, Advertising 2.0: Social Media Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, was followed by others on using social media and digital marketing for the enterprise, and the book, Advertisers at Work, which features interviews with luminaries in the field. Dr. Tuten’s publications have appeared in such journals as Journal of Marketing Communications, Psychology & Marketing, and Journal of Business Research. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, she frequently speaks around the world on marketing topics. She’s been recognized with teaching awards at her respective institutions and with national awards, such as the O’Hara Leadership Award in Direct & Interactive Marketing Education. In 2013, she was inducted into the Incredible Women of ECU series, which highlights female graduates of East Carolina University who have reached exceptional levels of achievement in their respective careers.

Review

Hands down, this is the single best textbook about social media marketing out there. This radically revised and fully updated edition is even more comprehensive, strategic, organized, visual, results-oriented and inno vative than the first. If you teach or study social media marketing or digital marketing, then you need this book!
Author: Robert V. Kozinets

The book, Social Media Marketing, by Tuten and Solomon explains the evolution of digital marketing using the building blocks of traditional marketing and provides insights, using essential theory and examples from real world situations, on how social media can be used as a tool for strategic planning to achieve core objectives by facilitating exchanges between consumers and organization. 

The text builds on by highlighting the four channels (zones) of social media and summarizes by stating the metrics that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies. The book, in the beginning, discusses the horizontal revolution, a change which social media is bringing in the daily lives of ‘digital natives’, modern day consumers. 

From an academic viewpoint also, the book successfully integrates closely the concepts of traditional digital marketing practices with those of digital marketing that it would encourage and facilitate students, and managers apply digital marketing concepts for succeeding in their business strategies and processes. The book is well versed and neatly covers all the essential components of social media marketing that will enable students to channelize their social media marketing skills.

 

Author: Vision, 10 May 2018

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9351509249
• ISBN 13: 9789351509240
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 344