Setting up a social media marketing strategy: what do you want to achieve and where do you stand today?

People marching In a previous post about setting up a social media marketing strategy, I looked at the first step in defining it. As promised, back then, here is a first follow-up post for all of you out there trying to find some simple answers to some simple questions that unfortunately become complex in a jungle of social media marketing opinions. For the record: my look at setting up a social media marketing strategy is an opinion as well. All I can promise is that I’ll try to avoid the hype and keep it simple yet relevant, deal?

In case you didn’t read the first post in this developing series, I advise you to do so. Here is the link. Come back later?

OK, last time I talked about the decision to start with social media marketing, the importance of having a strategy and how to compose a team to define that strategy. I also talked about the role of that team.

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Facebook F8: the main announcements and a small fairy tale


Mark zuckerberg I guess no one needs this blog to know about all the new features Facebook plans to roll out (and has rolled out).

Yesterday, the company killed the fans. And today it’s creating a lot of excitement and buzz with an avalanche of new features, services and partnerships on its F8 developer event.

What can I offer you? A summary of what has been and is being announced and a fairy tale.

First the summary.

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