Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If you don’t buy the extended warranty it costs you just to call and try to get help. Apple is never about the customer but their own bottom line and not begin engaged with the customers about issues through social media shows this even further. But I don’t consider it smart to try to convert new buyers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Folks that spent considerable time on Digg prior to the update, by and large, were looking for a social news site. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. Is there any?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media (Search Engine Journal): I love how Jennifer Horowitz equates social media with the 7 sins. However, how many of you actually knew that Delicious has tools to help you get the most out of it? Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007. Yes, that’s right.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Do you always tell people to “buy now”, “buy before midnight”, “For the first 300 people”, etc? What you should do is to be insightful, insightful, insightful… and then “New price reduction on our favorite product, “X”. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Do I hard sell with my updates? All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It would be awesome if you chose to consider my earlier feedback (keep the shouts for those who want them but let us Digg our friends’ stories from the friends/submitted page) but overall, this is actually a step in the right direction. Thanks guys. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. Specially, dealing with starting a cart and posting items buy using PayPal. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Based on my findings, Problogger started in 2004, Copyblogger started in 2006, Daily Blog Tips started in 2006, Steve Pavlina’s Blog started in 2004, and Entrepreneur’s Journey started in 2004. No need to buy John Reeses’ new product that will set you back $2k. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

Moreover, allowing users to “try before they buy&# was incredibly clever and keeps the hype strong. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. One usually isn’t enough, but it will get you started. Facebook lets you network correctly. Just about every Facebook user I know of is a real person. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

With 1,200 users terminated at once, I’m not sure people can easily buy that. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Note that this was told to Consumerist anonymously but on the record. Does that really give the insider’s claim any credibility? Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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Reputation Airlines Digg MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Reply Dennis June 29, 2008 at 11:58 pm I hear Google made an offer to buy Plutter Kite for $6.4B! Add health records and Social Security #s to Plutter Kite, and Google will double their offer. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Thank you for that! Reply Dana Lookadoo June 30, 2008 at 12:10 am Don’t sell! All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

Here are just some of those contributions: While I got married in March of 2005 (this photo was taken at our wedding), we delayed our honeymoon until December 2006. My grandparents are snowbirds: they reside in Florida (near my folks) for half of the year and in New York (where our family originally hails from) for the other half.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media : In case you’re still emphasizing submissions on social sites, here’s why your content … uh, appears to suck. How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media. Not excess. Maybe you should. Find out why.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

The 5 NEW Rules of Social Media Optimization (Influential Marketing Blog): In 2006, Rohit Bhargava formulated the concept of SMO, or Social Media Optimization. It’s changed slightly in the past four years, so here are the new rules. Be proactive and you will win. C’mon. Want to find sites to link to?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

They also were able to flex their muscles and throw around dollars to buy up all the valuable advertising and marketing opportunities. In the past 5-10 years, social media has come along and changed advertising and marketing from a dollars and quantity game to a quality game. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Monier suggests that it could be flawed, however, as in describing a “diamond:&# what if a baseball enthusiast chooses to buy his wife a nice piece of jewelry? © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Personalization : presenting results based on past activity. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed. TV media buys are based on people picking what was on TV.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Frank Lee shares a Free Gift to guide you step-by-step to “Breakthrough Article Marketing&# – simply visit his site today and discover how you too can generate loads of free buying traffic using a simple 5 step unique article writing method in his Internet Marketing Systems. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Tagged as: digg , Internet , kevin rose , social media , social news { 10 trackbacks } links for 2007-11-08 « Trials and Tribulations November 8, 2007 at 5:27 pm Nuudelisoppa » Blog Archive » Kevin Rose: Diggs Biggest Hypocrite November 9, 2007 at 12:07 pm AllSux.com » I Sux, You Sux, All Sux dot Com!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Oh…and I MAKE them buy your book… hehee~! And so much more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

And it doesn’t help for marketing — at least not the social kind. If I wanted to shout it out, I’d buy a billboard over the Strip in Las Vegas. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s a great tool, but it’s not one you’d exclusively want to dedicate your Twitter efforts to. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Their goal is to send press pitches, not to buy ads on your site. If a blogger outreach consultant or social media agency emails you a story pitch, read their signature. Most PR people aren’t in a position to buy ads. Rule #4: This could be the start of something big. I don’t think so.

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Blogger Press Release Advertising Review 177

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail. For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s not that we don’t want to do IPO; we’re just not focused on it. Some companies have that as a goal, but for us, that’s not what we’re trying to go for. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Buy something, get something. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Of course, you can also just use a Facebook application for that. Where would I find them?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

My solution has been to respond with a note that the publisher doesn’t allow me to distribute that material (that’s true) and suggest that they buy a copy of the book that includes a CD. Reply Carri Bugbee July 30, 2010 at 5:00 am Todd, can I buy you lunch and pick your brain??? You get the idea. Yet people always ask!)

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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The SEO Angle If you’re a brand new student in the school of thought of SEO, after you’ve learned about improving your web presence via search engines, there are countless opportunities to prove to yourself that you know what you’re doing. I have bought many products based on simple awareness through social channels.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Personal > Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on February 6, 2008 Share Awhile ago, I used Twitter to talk about one of my favorite cold remedy vitamins, Airborne.

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APRIL 14, 2010

« Direct Marketing Observations July 26, 2010 at 1:36 pm 3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg August 25, 2010 at 9:09 am { 84 comments… read them below or add one } Ana Hoffman YourNetBiz April 14, 2010 at 10:46 am Profound and thought-provoking. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Andy has submitted nearly 15,000 stories to Digg and over 4200 of his submissions have hit the front page of the impossible-to-game social news site.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Audiences there are large, but they are there to connect, not to buy. Companies need to leverage different social media channels if they want buyers. You know, going back to my own history, Facebook [Fan Pages] and Twitter weren’t around when I started offering social media strategy. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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APRIL 28, 2010

So, Facebook, when are you going to have a Business Center that regularly communicates with owners of small businesses or larger businesses who don’t place ad buys on your network? So while we manage many pages, we don’t buy FB advertising for all of them, some clients do it through their media buying agency.

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