Engage!
non-fiction work by Brian Solis
Engage!: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web is a book by digital analyst Brian Solis. In Engage!, Solis provides an in-depth analysis of social media as a tool used in businesses. He focuses on how to leverage it to be successful in the world of business. In other words, Solis brings forth the tips that people can use to best market their products or services. Actor Ashton Kutcher wrote the foreword.
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The first half of Engage! introduces social media entities such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, with chapters labeled "The New Media University: Social Media" 101, 201, 202, etc., all the way until "MBA Program—Second Year." Solis uses this university metaphor to help anyone at any place in their career start where they need to and go back and study the basics as necessary.
The second half of Engage! explores how to start social media programs, how to sell the program once started, and how to measure return on investment (ROI). Solis also explores the murky separation of personal and professional interactions in social media.
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