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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 4th Edition
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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 4th Edition

by David Meerman Scott
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 28m
English
Wiley
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Social Networking Sites and Marketing

The popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn is phenomenal. Social networking sites make it easy for people to create a profile about themselves and use it to form a virtual network combining their off-line friends and new online friends. According to Twitter, there are more than 500 million Twitter accounts with about 200 million of those described as active, and people generate an average of a half a billion tweets a day. Facebook now reports more than a billion monthly active users and LinkedIn has more than 200 million. And it's not just the United States; social networking is extremely popular all over the world. For instance, about 80 percent of Facebook users are outside the United States. While not all visitors to these sites create their own profiles, but there are millions and millions of people who do—to share their photos, journals, videos, music, and interests with a network of friends.

While these huge numbers are impressive, we can easily lose track of what this means to us as marketers. When we consider the reach of influential people on social networking sites, we should rethink our notions about who can best spread our ideas and tell our stories. Many people tell me that they want to get quoted in important publications like the Wall Street Journal or have their products mentioned on television news networks like the BBC or on shows like The Today Show. These media hits are seen as ...

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David Meerman Scott

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