Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 4

Integrating Social Media

IN THIS CHAPTER

Integrating social media with e-newsletters

Incorporating social media into press releases and public relations

Leveraging social media with website features

A volatile debate rages in marketing circles: Has social media become so prohibitively popular — and social media companies so desperate to monetize their sites and satisfy their investors — that it’s no longer possible to be successful with only free posts and content?

Statistical analysis by Wordstream.com (www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2016/01/25/does-facebook-advertising-work) shows a steady decline in organic reach for brands. Instead, promoted posts, ads, and posts from friends squeeze out your attempts to communicate for free.

You can address this problem in two ways: Beat ’em or join ’em. In this chapter, we talk first about beating ’em by combining social media with email, press releases, or websites to increase reach.

If those methods don’t work, you can always join ’em by paying to promote your posts, tweets, and pins to reach the audience you want. We discuss a range of advertising possibilities on four primary social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, ...