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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Growth means that the network has reached enough mass that businesses and marketers have taken note. At this stage, people start using these networks for commercial purposes, such as business networking, sales promotion, customer relationship management, and general marketing. The Case Study of a Full Life Cycle.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This isn’t a real post about social media strategy, but it’s an important issue that follows from our social media behavior online. Buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , a primer to social media marketing, and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Photos by Shutterstock. Like this post?

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Their monetization strategy What they have in common Their Blog Age I will be using when they started writing blog posts to calculate their blog age which can be found in their blog archives. All of these blogs also make use of affiliate marketing and it works for them since they have a large audience. Answers Yahoo!

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Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m sure the internet marketing industry isn’t alone in this regard. See, I’m one of those Facebook users who have been on the service since February 2004, which is quite a long time considering Facebook was open to about three schools at the time that I signed up. I actually practice what I preach.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, you can validate that by cross checking my user ID, 102991, which should indicate that I’ve been around for a real long time (since February 2004, to be more precise). Unless top-down social business strategy totally stinks, yes. Will this mean that they’ll have to spend $5k/year to reach their Facebook Fans?

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