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Driving a Successful Social Media Campaign by Jennifer Aaker

Using the case study of Team Sameer - a successful social media campaign to find a bone marrow donor for a man with leukemia - Stanford GSB professor Jennifer Aaker goes into detail on the effective strategies of an email plea sent to just 450 people, which lead to nearly 25,000 participants nationwide. Communicating a story through focused, humanistic messaging is an imperative element for social media that drives audiences to take action.
Jennifer Aaker

Jennifer Aaker

Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. As a social psychologist, Professor Aaker studies time, money, happiness and brands. Her interests span a wide range of research from the psychology of giving to the role of time, money and social media in getting people to do the right thing. She and her coauthors examine what actually makes people happy, as opposed to what they think makes them happy. Her work on the psychology of consumer-brand relationships won the best Journal of Consumer Research article, and her work on culture and emotion has won awards for papers which demonstrates the most potential to contribute significantly to management.

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Created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneurship.org was formed as a free, online international resource designed to help build entrepreneurial economies. Entrepreneurship.org features a vast array of content and resources to assist entrepreneurs, business mentors, policy makers, academics and investors through each phase of the entrepreneurial process. The content ranges from resources entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship.

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