TY - BOOK AU - Siddharth Shriram Shimpi TI - Social Media as an Effective Marketing Tool: An Empirical Study PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - Associated Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd. KW - Marketing KW - Social Media KW - Management Institutes KW - Branding KW - Electronic word-of -mouth KW - Social Image N2 - Social media has introduced a unique aspect to marketing strategy, where once companies dictated what was said about their brands to a passive audience, consumers have become the creators and distributors of these messages. Designing communication for social media is a different ball game with increasing awareness and impatient audience, rising competition, and cost. This study confirmed the mediating role of impression management in electronic word-of-mouth and social media on branding of management institutes ER -