The facebook marketing book, by Dan Zarella and Alison Zarrella

This book can be used as a guide to using the power of Facebook, the network originally made for select college students, then expanded to larger networks of high schools and colleges, then larger networks of people, and finally becoming today’s huge network of more than 500 million active users around the world, to make it work for the benefit of your company.

It describes and explains all the marketing tools that exist in Facebook, like pages, events, ads, applications, which anyone can easily and cost effectively use, for promoting their business.

The book is written in simple English language, that I very much appreciated because English is not my mother tongue. It is a book that can easily be read by people who are not technically oriented, and who are not professionals either in computers or in marketing. Yet all can have a benefit from reading it.

It is well formatted in twelve chapters, each chapter consisting of several units, and a number of screen shots. However screen shots are not enough or very well positioned in the book, and sometimes I had to go to Facebook itself to fully understand the subject and see more examples.

Another strong point of the book is its down to earth approach of using Facebook as a marketing tool. The writer does not claim that Facebook marketing tools are the magic solution to every marketing problem, but explains the “laws”, and the inherent logic, that runs Facebook, so that the user can take them into consideration in designing their marketing campaign. I believe this is the stronger point of the book, although in some cases more examples may be needed, for to take the full advantage of the tool.

Finally, a weak point of the book is chapter 12, Analytics and ROI. I would like to see more detailed information of how to use those tools, because statistics are very important to marketing planning. Though, it may be out of the scope of this book, to go in depth in fields that should be supported by Facebook documentation.

Generally speaking the book is very good and it gives a sound foundation to anyone who wants to build their marketing campaign using Facebook tools.

Disclosure: I received a free ebook copy for review purposes.