ABOUT ME

My Dear Friends,

I’m glad to meet you here, at my Blog “Social Media: Ideas and Experiments”. Let me introduce myself – Julia Rakova, Skolkovo Business School MBA graduate, entrepreneur, marketer and blogger. In this Blog I will share my ideas and thoughts on social media marketing and commerce with you.
Why have I chosen such a topic? I got acquainted with real buzz on social media in Boston, the US, where I studied in MIT (Entrepreneurship and Innovation program), visited prominent SEO and SMM companies and listened to such SEO Gurus, like Dharmesh Shah, the author of “Inbound Marketing” bestseller, and Brian Halligan, Hubspot Company CEO and Founder.

Besides, I had my business internship in Forrester Research, the technology and market research company, whose employees published such social media marketing hits as “Empowered” and “Groundswell”. All the books mentioned above sit on my table now. What I concluded after meeting such people, gaining experience from visiting and working in such companies and reading these books, is that Future belongs to Social Media. They are the source of information, field of communication and great possibility to develop and promote businesses.

After my graduation from Skolkovo B-School, where I studied Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in BRIC markets particularly, I decided to start my own business in Social Media Marketing and Commerce in Russia. This country has enormous potential and not only because of its oil&gas resources but also because of its residents’ talents, intellectual abilities and passion for innovations. I hope in my blog I will be able to tell you more about this country, social media development here and best practices of Russian companies in this field. I plan to write in my blog in English and Russian. And I am thankful to you for your time and attention!

Sincerely,

Julia Rakova