Maximize Your Social : A One-Stop Guide to Building a Social Media Strategy for Marketing and Business Success

Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create—and execute—a social media game plan. Maximize Your Social details the evolution of social media and explains the absolute necessity for creating a social media strategy. It outlines the preparation for, mechanics of, and maintenance of a successful social media strategy. This practical guide allows any business, big or small, to create and maintain its own social media strategy—no more paying agencies or hiring expensive consultants. You can master social media marketing strategies and save a chunk of your business's budget while achieving more effective results. Learn how to leverage the strategic opportunities that each social media channel offers and implement a data-driven approach for monitoring the success, or failure, of your social media program. With expert guidance on all things social, you'll learn how to: Focus your efforts in order to maximize Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and blogging Staff your social media efforts with the right people in the right roles Understand the importance of creating and maintaining legal social media policies as well as social media guidelines for employees Catalog all of the social media tactics that will be done on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis Determine the ROI of your social media strategy You know you need to do social better. Maximize Your Social will help you prepare and maintain a profitable social media strategy. Follow author Neal Schaffer's advice, and you'll be able to do it yourself—and do it right.