Dear Professor

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Contemporary Issues in Social Media Marketing

Published by: ROUTLEDGE

Edited by

Dr. Bikramjit Rishi

IMT, Ghaziabad, India

 Dr. Subir Bandyopadhyay

School of Business & Economics

Indiana University Northwest, USA

OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK

The book aims at providing the relevant theoretical, empirical, and experiential frameworks and findings in the area of social media marketing. The book will cover all the relevant aspects related to social media marketing.

TARGET AUDIENECE

The book is targeted at students of social media marketing, social media marketing professionals, researchers and academicians who are interested in knowing more about social media marketing. The book will also be interesting for the allied disciplines of marketing i.e. sociology, psychology, information science and economics. The book will also become a reference resource for those organizations which want to use social media marketing for their brands.  

RECOMMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED, TO THE FOLLOWING:

This book seeks behavioral, empirical, or managerial work studying the marketing
implications of social media from both a consumer and managerial perspective. Scholarly article on topics including, but not limited to, the following will be considered for publication in the book.

·         The consumer journey in a social media world

·         Social media engagement and return on engagement

·         Social media and customer relationship management (CRM)

·         Mechanisms for incentivizing and encouraging social interactions

·         Consumption of social media platforms and services

·         Typology of social media interactions in marketing settings

·         Social media marketing goals and objectives

·         Selection strategy for social media platforms

·         Identifying target audiences

·         Content marketing

·         Publishing blogs, podcasts and webinars

·         Microblogging strategy

·         Marketing through social networks

·         Hiring employees through social media

·         Strategy to gain new customers 

·         Strategies for sharing photos

·         Social media marketing for B2B

·         Mobile computing strategy

·         Location marketing strategy

·         Selection of monitoring tools

·         Managing social media in-house vs. by an agency

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

This book invites original chapter proposals from academicians, researchers and practitioners. Neither published nor submitted anywhere else chapter proposals can be sent for review on or before March 31, 2016. A 2-3 pages chapter proposal highlighting the objectives of the proposed chapter will be appropriate. Authors of the accepted proposals will be communicated about the status of their proposals by April 30, 2016. Full chapter's submission is expected by June 30, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on double blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.  

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Proposal Submission deadline: March 31, 2016

Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2016

Full Chapters Submission: July 31, 2016

Review Results Returned: May 31, 2016

Final Chapter submission: June 30, 2016

Please submit your chapter proposals at: drbikramrishi@gmail.com; sbandyop@iun.edu

REFER TO GUIDELINES BELOW FOR WRITING THE CHAPTERS

What follows is a concise guide to the best way to prepare your text in a style and format that is suitable for production at Routledge. If, after having read through this document, you have any questions, or would like further clarification on any points, please contact your editorial assistant.

Preparation

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Referencing

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·         With this system it is essential that the bibliography lists every work cited by you in the text.

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Jaeger, J.C. and Cook, N.G.W. (1979) Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics, 3rd edn, London: Chapman & Hall.)

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·         Make sure that you have permission to reproduce any materials in both print and electronic formats, as almost all of our books are now produced in an eBook format.

·         Your editorial assistant can provide a template permission request letter should you require one.

Words

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Tables

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