The free and easy-to-use tools of social media such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn offer an incredible opportunity for bloggers to promote their blogs and build their brands and audiences. Following are 10 of the best social media books for bloggers that you can read to start growing your blog right away.
30-Minute Social Media Marketing
This book shows small business owners (including bloggers) how to successfully use social media tools to promote their blogs, businesses and themselves in as few as 30-minutes each day.
Twitter Power 2.0
This book was updated in 2010 to the second version. It offers an easy-to-read guide to using Twitter, which can be applied to growing your blog.
Blogging All-in-One for Dummies
This book includes an entire minibook dedicated to blog marketing via social media as well as a minibook dedicated to Twitter.
The New Rules of Marketing and PR
This book offers a very simple look at why social media marketing can help you build your blog's audience.
Twitter Marketing for Dummies
This book focuses on the basics of marketing a business, brand, product, blog or anything else using Twitter.
Content Marketing for Dummies
No one will want to read your blog if your content isn't good. This book teaches you how to write content that people want to read, talk about, and share.
Facebook Marketing for Dummies
If you want to learn how to use Facebook to promote your blog, then this is the book for you.
Crush It!
Written by one of the best examples of a small business owner using social media to build a successful business, Gary Vaynerchuk, this is the motivational and instructional book that every blogger should read.
ProBlogger: Secrets to Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
Written by one of the most successful bloggers, Darren Rowse, this book teaches the tricks of the trade for turning a blog into a money-making business.
The Zen of Social Media Marketing
This book offers a variety of step-by-step instructions for leveraging the tools of the social Web for marketing purposes.
