This course is part of the Social Media Marketing Specialization

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Social Media Marketing SpecializationNorthwestern University

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In a 2014 study of CEOs and CMOs, IBM found 63% wanted social strategies which generate business metrics while only 20% of businesses worldwide actually have them. This means strategies which not only grow your company’s social footprint but link to your sales and marketing systems. With this critical linkage, your social and mobile strategies will provide you with the ability to engage consumers at a 1-to-1 level and measure your social investments in terms of costs, revenues, profits and ROI. In this fifth MOOC of the Social Marketing Specialization - "The Business of Social" - you will learn how to transform your organization's social marketing from an untracked investment to an integral part of your company’s marketing strategy. You will learn the legal considerations involved as well as proven performance metrics and management tactics for success.
Additional MOOC 5 faculty include:
* Rich Gordon (Professor & Director of Digital Innovation, Medill, Northwestern)
* Tom Collinger (Executive Director Spiegel Research Center and Senior Director Distance Learning, Medill Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern)
* Seth Redmore (CMO, Lexalytics, Inc.)
* Jeff Davidoff (CMO, Donuts.Domains) 
* Matt Krull (Business Unit Executive, IBM Security) 
* Frank Mulhern (Associate Dean, Department Chair, and Professor, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern)

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Social Marketing
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Course 5 of 6 in the

Social Media Marketing Specialization

Approx. 6 hours to complete

English

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Randy Hlavac

Northwestern University & CEO of Marketing Synergy, Inc

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Legal Considerations

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 19 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Metrics

1 hour to complete

6 videos (Total 40 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 3

1 hour to complete

Performance

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 27 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Management

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 25 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM THE BUSINESS OF SOCIAL

by JGAug 13, 2019

Randy and the team are brilliant. I am redoing this entire specialization to remain engaged with the content. Great work Randy and Northwestern!

by NVFeb 13, 2016

Super course

Thank you Professor and Northwestern University and Coursera for some wonderful material

by DCNov 19, 2018

Great course. The Week 3 Quiz/Assessment didn't really make sense because Klout doesnt exist anymore. Other than that, I enjoyed it.

by RBApr 18, 2021

I learned lot of things in this course, Thanks Coursera to giving us an oppurtunity

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About the Social Media Marketing Specialization

In a 2018 survey of businesses, Buffer found that only 29% had effective social media marketing programs. A recent survey of consumers by Tomoson found 92% of consumers trust recommendations from other people over brand content, 70% found consumer reviews to be their second most trusted source, 47% read blogs developed by influencers and experts to discover new trends and new ideas and 35% used blogs to discover new products and services. Also, 20% of women who used social considered products promoted by bloggers they knew. Today, businesses and consumers use social media to make their purchase decisions.

Created in 2014, this Specialization is updated every quarter to ensure you are receiving the most up-to-date training. The Social Media Marketing Specialization is designed to achieve two objectives. It gives you the social analytics tools, and training to help you become an influencer on social media. The course also gives you the knowledge and resources to build a complete social media marketing strategy – from consumer insights to final justification metrics. In each course, you will also receive special toolkits with timely information & when you pay for the Capstone, you receive a market planning toolkit. Each of the individual courses can be audited for free. To see more, visit each course: 1-What is Social?, 2-The Importance of Listening, 3-Engagement & Nurture Marketing Strategies, 4-Content, Advertising & Social IMC, 5-The Business of Social.

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