A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media - Brossura

Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan

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ISBN 10: 0691169268 ISBN 13: 9780691169262

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives--from friendship and dating to news and business.

What makes social media so different from traditional media? Answering that question is the key to making social media work for any business, argues Miko?aj Piskorski, one of the world's leading experts on the business of social media. In A Social Strategy, he provides the most convincing answer yet, one backed by original research, data, and case studies from companies such as Nike and American Express.

Drawing on his analysis of proprietary data from social media sites, Piskorski argues that the secret of successful ones is that they allow people to fulfill social needs that either can’t be met offline or can be met only at much greater cost. This insight provides the key to how companies can leverage social platforms to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Companies need to help people interact with each other before they will promote products to their friends or help companies in other ways. Done right, a company’s social media should benefit customers and the firm. Piskorski calls this "a social strategy," and he describes how companies such as Yelp and Zynga have done it.

Groundbreaking and important, A Social Strategy provides not only a story- and data-driven explanation for the explosion of social media but also an invaluable, concrete road map for any company that wants to tap the marketing potential of this remarkable phenomenon.

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L'autore:

Mikolaj Jan ("Misiek") Piskorski is professor of strategy and innovation at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he was an associate professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he wrote numerous case studies on how companies can use social media platforms to improve their competitive advantage.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

"Piskorski accessed Silicon Valley's storied social media firms and has returned with the keys to the kingdom for understanding what makes 'social web strategies' the real killer app behind social media. Anyone who wants to enhance the user experience must read this book."--Brian Uzzi, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

"A Social Strategy is a remarkable book--perhaps the first truly comprehensive examination of one of the transformative phenomena of our time: the emergence of the social web. Broad in reach and appeal, it will interest readers who want to think about web-based social platforms in a new light and gain new insights about social media."--Toby Stuart, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

"Rich in analysis and information, A Social Strategy provides a timely and very insightful view about why some social media platforms succeed and others fail--and why some digital marketing strategies do better than others. The book's arguments are supported by an impressive array of quantitative and qualitative evidence and its ideas have the potential to become central to understanding social media."--Martin Gargiulo, INSEAD Asia

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691169268
• ISBN 13: 9780691169262
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 275