Social media for customer lifecycle marketing

Social media marketing through Social network sites (SNS) gives some of the most powerful digital marketing channels since they can be applied through the customer lifecycle with these aims:

  • Reach: Organic and paid social updates to create awareness including through lookalike targeting
  • Act: Paid social options to generate leads
  • Convert: Retargeting options at an individual level to increase conversion
  • Engage:  Customer communications through organic updates, retargeting and uploading customer lists to reach known customers

This lifecycle visual summarizes the options for using paid and organic social across RACE.

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Full details on Amazon:

Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, 9th Edition, published 2025.

With Fiona Ellis-Chadwick and Majd AbedRabbo.

Used by: Undergraduate and post-graduate degree marketing students. Senior marketing professionals, e.g. marketing managers and directors.

Digital Marketing Excellence
6th edition

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Dave Chaffey is lead author of several bestselling digital marketing books including Digital Marketing: Strategy Implementation and Practice, Digital Business Management and Digital Marketing Excellence. These are based on my 3 decades experience on digital marketing consulting and training work includin

This site is my personal blog which has ideas to help students, professionals or lecturers using my textbooks in their studies or careers. I recommend taking a look at the Digital Marketing Book Support pages on this site