Which social media platforms are right for your start-up? Once you launch a Facebook page, a Twitter account, or something else - how do you gain fans and followers? What will you post about? Once you have fans and followers, what should you do with them?

This will be a beginner's course that will overview the basic theories of social media marketing, with a few tips and tools to help you get started.

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