: Social media guide for web startups I'm looking for a social media guide that would talk me through all the different steps involved with setting up social media for a new website (e.g. how

@Moriarity557

The Social Media for Dummies book sounds very appropriate for your situation. I found the first section on developing a higher-level strategy to be the most interesting part, but you should find the practical step-by-step guides in the rest of the book very useful.

However, I think I agree with @bikedorkseattle that you should leave social integration until later: There's enough work involved in building and promoting a website without losing focus on social media, which is well known to be very time consuming and hard to get right.

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@Shanna517

I know O'Reilly has a book about this: "Social Network Analysis for Startups".

Also, there is a ton of good info on SeoMoz about these kinds of topics.

I'll say this though. We are in the middle of the redesign of our site. I told the designer to not worry about ads or social media. I don't regret it. Design for the user first, add the social elements later.

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