Facebook Marketing : An Hour a Day by Chris, Smith, Mari Treadaway

“Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day” is the ultimate step-by-step guide to developing a winning Facebook strategy, implementing the campaign, and then measuring and reporting on the results. The first part of the book quickly gets readers up to speed on today’s Facebook conventions and demographics, and then outlines the broad strategic considerations marketers must consider. Readers are then guided step-by-step through crafting a successful initial presence on Facebook and then guided day-by-day through how to develop an overall Facebook marketing strategy by setting goals, defining metrics, developing reports, getting corporate buy-in, and integrating the Facebook strategy with other internet marketing activities.

Readers are then shown how to execute on the strategy and leverage and incorporate all of Facebook’s relevant features, including events, applications, advertising on Facebook’s stand-alone pay-per-click platform, using Facebook Connect, and more. The final portion of the book discusses the marketing metrics that matter and how to update, monitor, refine, and maintain a Facebook marketing campaign.

Full of interesting case studies, step-by-step guides, and hands-on tutorials and written in the popular “An Hour a Day” format, in which intimidating topics are broken down into easily approachable tasks, this book is sure to help marketers and others develop, implement, measure, and maintain a successful Facebook strategy.