Visual Social Marketing (PDF)

The book on Visual Social Media is written for students, social media lovers and professionals who aspire to use social media platforms for various business tasks. The book is drafted with a comprehensive vision of exploring the usage of social media platforms for various marketing and branding campaigns. Business is transforming from conventional to modern approach on all verticals, to be able to survive and out-perform in this era is not as easy as it used to be. Social media is platform which can facilitate the business with larger population than any other marketing medium.The first chapter of this book is about difference between conventional and social media marketing. The chapter precisely explains various strategies which makes social media marketing more effective and result oriented. The chapter gives brief introduction about various popular social media platforms and their application in social media marketing.The second chapter helps in understanding the risk factor and remedies of social media platforms. This chapter also gives insights about different tools used for social media marketing. Recent trends and practices in social media marketing is also included in this chapter.The third chapter elaborates on social media marketing platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Google Plus etc. This chapter is more about actual marketing techniques and rules used in social media marketing. This chapter includes various content forms which are used for social media campaigning. Along with content forms, this chapter also includes recommended and balanced strategies for posting and publishing the contents.The fourth chapter mainly talks about Podcasts, short videos and YouTube marketing strategies. Performance analysis, video marketing analysis and podcast integration is also included in this chapter.The fifth chapter elaborates on Facebook, twitter and Instagram marketing. Right from profile creation to paid marketing setup to performance analysis of campaigns, everything is discussed in this chapter. This chapter also emphasizes on the use of social media marketing for product and services. This chapter is written to help professionals and newbies to begin using Facebook, twitter and Instagram platforms for free and paid marketing.The sixth chapter is about Google, Google Plus, Wordpress and Pinterest. This chapter explores the other category of social media i.e. blogs. Wordpress and blogger.com are two blogging platforms discussed in this chapter at business and technical level. This chapter will help reader to understanding the use of blogging in professional marketing and branding.The seventh chapter is all about various tools used for content development. This chapter elaborates on use of many online and offline tools used for creating high quality Image, graphics, infographics, videos, animations etc. This chapter also talks about various blogging tools along with tools like Prezi and storify which are nowadays very popular among digital marketers.This book is sequenced and written to touch all the major and minor aspects of digital as well as visual social media campaigning. The content, example, diagrams used in this book are very well tested and validated against real time scenarios and case studies. Almost all popular social media platforms are discussed in detail to help reader in becoming versatile social media marketer.