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Marketing Communications in Social Media

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Social Commerce

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1. List and define the six social media promotion steps. 2. Identify the key social media communication objectives. 3. Explain how to select social media tools and platforms to achieve campaign objectives. 4. Compare and contrast the essentials of owned, paid and earned media. 5. Give examples of several owned social media channels and tactics. 6. Explain the advertising formats for social media.

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Turban, E., Strauss, J., Lai, L. (2016). Marketing Communications in Social Media. In: Social Commerce. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17028-2_4

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