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Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business

Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
By Steve Holzner

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Profit from Facebook!

High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works!

 

With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is today’s fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods won’t work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from today’s smartest Facebook marketers...and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business you’re in, you’ll learn how to create bottom-up, “viral” Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost!

  • Crafting your Facebook profile for maximum impact
  • Getting into the Facebook community: crucial dos and don’ts
  • Joining the right Facebook Groups—or starting your own
  • Creating a Facebook blog that attracts paying customers
  • Promoting products and services with free Facebook Marketplace classifieds
  • Hosting your own Facebook events: from company picnics to concerts
  • Successfully advertising on Facebook, without overspending
  • Promoting your business within today’s most popular Facebook applications
  • Tracking the results of your advertising
  • Using brand-new viral video marketing techniques
  • Driving even more Web traffic to your Facebook pages
  • Building your own Facebook applications

Introduction 1

 

1 Targeting Your Profile 5

    Welcome to Facebook Marketing 5

    Welcome to Facebook 7

    Getting Started with Facebook 8

    The Profile Tab 12

        Across the Top 13

        The Search Bar 15

        Name, Photo, Networks, and Status 18

        The Mini-Feed Section 19

        The Friends and Friends in Other Networks Sections 19

        The Photos Section 21

        The Groups Section 23

        The Information Section 24

        The Education and Work Section 24

        The Gifts Section 25

        The Wall Section 25

        Editing Your Profile 25

        Setting Profile Privacy 27

    The Friends Tab 31

        Searching for Friends 31

        Managing Your Friends 33

        Creating Friend Lists 35

    The Inbox Tab 37

        Reading Messages 38

        Avoiding Spam 39

        Reading Notifications 39

        Composing Messages 40

    Getting Help 41

 

2 Facebook Groups 45

    Welcome to Facebook Groups 45

        Messaging Your Members 46

        A Word About Spam 46

    Joining Facebook Groups 47

        What Groups Are Available? 47

        Taking a Look at a Group 51

        How Do I Join a Group? 54

        Which Groups Can I Join? 54

    Creating Your Own Facebook Groups 55

        Creating Your Group 57

        Customizing Your Group 58

        Inviting Friends to Join Your Group 61

        Seeing Your New Group 65

    Managing Your New Group 67

        Deleting a Group 70

 

3 Creating Your Own Pages 71

    Welcome to Facebook Pages 71

    Pages from a Marketing Perspective 72

        Viral Marketing with Pages 73

        Page Authenticity 74

    Finding Pages 75

        Searching for Pages 76

        Browsing Pages by Type 78

        Browsing All Pages 79

    Becoming a Fan of a Page 80

    Examining a Page 83

    Sharing a Page 85

    Creating Your Own Page 88

    Examining Your New Page 92

    Editing Your Page 94

    Updating Your Fans 98

    Promoting Your Page 99

 

4 Hosting Your Own Facebook Events 101

    Welcome to Facebook Events 101

    All About Facebook Events 102

    Checking Out Your Friends’ Events 103

    Taking a Look at an Event 104

        The Information Section 106

        The Description Section 107

        The Other Information Section 109

        The Photos,Video, and Posted Items Section 109

        The Confirmed Guests Section 109

        The Other Invites Section 109

        The Wall 110

        The Event Type and Admins Section 110

    Adding an Event to Your Event List 110

    Browsing for Events 113

    Searching for Events 113

    Creating an Event 115

    Customizing an Event 117

        Uploading the Image for the Event 118

        Setting Event Options 118

        Setting Event Access 119

        Inviting People to Your Event 119

    Seeing Your Event 122

    Managing and Publicizing Your Event 124

        Message All Guests 124

        Invite People to Come 124

        Edit Event 126

 

5 Introducing Advertising 129

    Welcome to Advertising 129

    News Feed Advertising with Posted Items 131

        Posting Items from External Sites 131

        Posting Items from Facebook 134

        Posting Items with the Share on Facebook Button 135

        Posting Items from Partner Websites 135

        Deleting Posts 137

    Using Ads 139

        There Are Ads, and Then There Are Social Ads 139

        Cost Per Click or Cost Per Thousand? 141

        Bidding for Ad Presentation 141

    Creating an Ad 142

        Setting Up Your Account 142

        Starting Your Ad 143

        Choosing What to Advertise 144

        Choosing Your Audience 145

        Creating the Ad 147

        Setting the Budget for Your Ad 151

        Review Your Ad 153

        Congratulations 154

 

6 Optimizing and Monitoring Your Advertising 157

    Understanding Your Campaign 158

        Tuning the Number of Impressions 159

        Tuning the Click-Through Ratio 160

        Tuning the Average CPC 160

    Getting an Ad’s Daily Details 161

    Changing Your Ad’s Settings 163

        Changing Your Bid 163

        Changing Your Budget 163

        Pau...


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #20036 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-09-25
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 288 pages

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From the Back Cover

Profit from Facebook!

High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works!

 

With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is today’s fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods won’t work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from today’s smartest Facebook marketers...and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business you’re in, you’ll learn how to create bottom-up, “viral” Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost!

  • Crafting your Facebook profile for maximum impact
  • Getting into the Facebook community: crucial dos and don’ts
  • Joining the right Facebook Groups—or starting your own
  • Creating a Facebook blog that attracts paying customers
  • Promoting products and services with free Facebook Marketplace classifieds
  • Hosting your own Facebook events: from company picnics to concerts
  • Successfully advertising on Facebook, without overspending
  • Promoting your business within today’s most popular Facebook applications
  • Tracking the results of your advertising
  • Using brand-new viral video marketing techniques
  • Driving even more Web traffic to your Facebook pages
  • Building your own Facebook applications

Introduction 1

 

1 Targeting Your Profile 5

    Welcome to Facebook Marketing 5

    Welcome to Facebook 7

    Getting Started with Facebook 8

    The Profile Tab 12

        Across the Top 13

        The Search Bar 15

        Name, Photo, Networks, and Status 18

        The Mini-Feed Section 19

        The Friends and Friends in Other Networks Sections 19

        The Photos Section 21

        The Groups Section 23

        The Information Section 24

        The Education and Work Section 24

        The Gifts Section 25

        The Wall Section 25

        Editing Your Profile 25

        Setting Profile Privacy 27

    The Friends Tab 31

        Searching for Friends 31

        Managing Your Friends 33

        Creating Friend Lists 35

    The Inbox Tab 37

        Reading Messages 38

        Avoiding Spam 39

        Reading Notifications 39

        Composing Messages 40

    Getting Help 41

 

2 Facebook Groups 45

    Welcome to Facebook Groups 45

        Messaging Your Members 46

        A Word About Spam 46

    Joining Facebook Groups 47

        What Groups Are Available? 47

        Taking a Look at a Group 51

        How Do I Join a Group? 54

        Which Groups Can I Join? 54

    Creating Your Own Facebook Groups 55

        Creating Your Group 57

        Customizing Your Group 58

        Inviting Friends to Join Your Group 61

        Seeing Your New Group 65

    Managing Your New Group 67

        Deleting a Group 70

 

3 Creating Your Own Pages 71

    Welcome to Facebook Pages 71

    Pages from a Marketing Perspective 72

        Viral Marketing with Pages 73

        Page Authenticity 74

    Finding Pages 75

        Searching for Pages 76

        Browsing Pages by Type 78

        Browsing All Pages 79

    Becoming a Fan of a Page 80

    Examining a Page 83

    Sharing a Page 85

    Creating Your Own Page 88

    Examining Your New Page 92

    Editing Your Page 94

    Updating Your Fans 98

    Promoting Your Page 99

 

4 Hosting Your Own Facebook Events 101

    Welcome to Facebook Events 101

    All About Facebook Events 102

    Checking Out Your Friends’ Events 103

    Taking a Look at an Event 104

        The Information Section 106

        The Description Section 107

        The Other Information Section 109

        The Photos,Video, and Posted Items Section 109

        The Confirmed Guests Section 109

        The Other Invites Section 109

        The Wall 110

        The Event Type and Admins Section 110

    Adding an Event to Your Event List 110

    Browsing for Events 113

    Searching for Events 113

    Creating an Event 115

    Customizing an Event 117

        Uploading the Image for the Event 118

        Setting Event Options 118

        Setting Event Access 119

        Inviting People to Your Event 119

    Seeing Your Event 122

    Managing and Publicizing Your Event 124

        Message All Guests 124

        Invite People to Come 124

        Edit Event 126

 

5 Introducing Advertising 129

    Welcome to Advertising 129

    News Feed Advertising with Posted Items 131

        Posting Items from External Sites 131

        Posting Items from Facebook 134

        Posting Items with the Share on Facebook Button 135

        Posting Items from Partner Websites 135

        Deleting Posts 137

    Using Ads 139

        There Are Ads, and Then There Are Social Ads 139

        Cost Per Click or Cost Per Thousand? 141

        Bidding for Ad Presentation 141

    Creating an Ad 142

        Setting Up Your Account 142

        Starting Your Ad 143

        Choosing What to Advertise 144

        Choosing Your Audience 145

        Creating the Ad 147

        Setting the Budget for Your Ad 151

        Review Your Ad 153

        Congratulations 154

 

6 Optimizing and Monitoring Your Advertising 157

    Understanding Your Campaign 158

        Tuning the Number of Impressions 159

        Tuning the Click-Through Ratio 160

        Tuning the Average CPC 160

    Getting an Ad’s Daily Details 161

    Changing Your Ad’s Settings 163

        Changing Your Bid 163

        Changing Your Budget 163

        Pau...

About the Author

Steven Holzner is the award-winning author of 112 books and has been a contributing editor at PC Magazine. His books have sold three million copies and have been translated into 18 languages.He specializes in web topics such as Facebook. He has been marketing his own companies on the Web for years, using marketplace experience; banner ads; Google,Yahoo!, and MSN pay-per-click campaigns; viral marketing; Usenet marketing; and more. He’s a web entrepreneur and has three online companies, which keep him busy.


Customer Reviews

Laughably weak - has nothing to do with Marketing1
The blurb above says the author has written 112 books, and the blurb in this 2009 book says 108, I am surprised it is not higher as 'writing a book' seems to be mostly copying and pasting screenshots and rephrasing the help text from Facebook. To be fair he has also asked a few pundits to share 'secrets' with him. None of them seem to be that qualified to do so and mostly it is the same pundit. What is really disappointing about this book though, beyond the lack of content and poor style is that it is totally missold. The book spends nearly all its time taking the reader through making a page and other basic features of being a Facebook *user*. Little if any time is devoted to *marketing* in Facebook. Where are the case studies of organisations and campaigns that have been successful? Where is the analysis? Where are the trends? What should one bear in mind (beyond the chillingly obvious, 'don't spam')? There is a great book to be written about social media and marketing. This is so very not it.

Facebook Marketing5
When many people think about Facebook, they tend to think of a social network for the younger generation. They assume that Facebook is just a glorified chatroom. Therefore, when doing social marketing, most businesses focus on MySpace and Linked In.

Facebook Marketing states that businesses that exclude Facebook in their social marketing are missing out on important opportunities. There re countless ways that individuals and companies can be noticed, without spamming. If done properly, social networking and even advertising on Facebook can provide a good deal of promotion for any business.

Facebook Marketing takes the entrepreneur through the process of setting up a Facebook account and then making the best use of the network's applications. It also gives information on how to advertise on Facebook. Throughout the book is advice on best practices and how to assure that you won't be accused of spamming.

Pretty poor, more like an instruction on how to use facebook2
A pretty poor book. Doesn't tell much about marketing at all. It seems like an instruction book on how to use facebook, and lets face it, most people who want to market on facebook already will have some basic knowledge, and this book does little to add to that knowledge.