2006, Cost, Microblogging and Reddit

Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

1: Opportunity Cost – Every time you spend a minute on social media is one minute you potentially lost revenue. This inherent cost needs to be included in any equations you make when allocating resources. The good thing about social media is that the opportunity cost tends to mostly be time. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

Social Media

Social Media Yahoo Discount Training

Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Since the organization’s mission relies on storytelling, Stacey says, “social media represented a way for us to share those stories with the broadest possible audience for the lowest possible cost.&# © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Epic Change brought social media into the mix for other reasons as well. Answers Yahoo!

Social Media

Social Media Case Study MySpace Yahoo

A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

The only substantial cost for you is time. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. The best part? Access to these social media communities is free. Answers Yahoo!

Communities

Communities Marketing MySpace Yahoo

Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

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. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Never heard of that at any other company.

Apple

Apple Twitter Forums Policies

Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Your responsibility as a marketer is to understand that permission marketing might actually take work, but the other extreme is to choose an easy way out that will likely have a cost that may be hard (or impossible) to recover from. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. What do you choose? Answers Yahoo! All rights reserved.

Newsletter

Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn

Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

And since the cost of adding calls to action on a website and/or sending email messages is relatively low (email sends are arguably the least expensive weapons in your marketing arsenal), failing to do so is an almost unforgivable sin for any enterprising social marketer. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo!

Smart Phone

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO

Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Every bad sale costs you five. Here’s some more food for thought: Every blog post or negative review costs you thousands of customers. Some will go the extra mile to share with their friends exactly why they’re moving on, too, so don’t make any missteps that will cost you business down the road. Answers Yahoo!

Social Media

Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo

Reputation Management with Dissatisfied Customers and Word of.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Here’s what Sprint is thinking: you’re wasting our valuable customer service dollars and our errors are costing us too much money, so we’ll drop you and we’ll save big. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. But boy, that’s really convenient. Answers Yahoo! Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

Reputation

Reputation Airlines Digg MySpace

Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

Do you think Reddit, Propeller, etc. I like Reddit a lot but I don’t think it affords the same kind of information that Digg has (the latter being more tech-centric, and the former being more political/philosophical, and those are both areas that are not as interesting to me). © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo!

Social Networking

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking

How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. That’s gotta be more luck than skill no? Hotels in NYC are costly. Answers Yahoo! Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

Hotels

Hotels Social Media Communities Discount

Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream. But PLURK? I LOVE PLURK!

Twitter

Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison

Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

If we sell out we might make money but the cost is way to high. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Moral of the story: We need to be true to what we know to be right.

Reputation

Reputation Chemicals Issues Consultant

Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ultimately, there will be overhead “costs,&# such as monitoring your evangelists’ representation of your brand. Investing in a campaign that rewards your satisfied users to become your ambassadors is more cost effective than paying a sales agent with the added benefit that nobody likes a sales agent but we all love our friends.

Brands

Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. Twitter, Customer Service, and Good Brand Management (Conversation Agent): Valeria Maltoni writes a great primer to why Twitter is important for customer service, but then goes a step further and tells you what tools you can use to monitor your brand (and some that cost money and let you respond). Here’s 2007.

Marketing

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering

10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

This includes everything from acquiring permits, to negotiating with shippers, to figuring costs out with any non-for-profit you may be working with. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

Communities

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI

How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

There’s a cost to this, though. In both cases, you can build an app on your Facebook wall that will let you estimate your monthly renter’s/homeowner’s insurance costs or your mortgage. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. In the screenshot above, control is shifted to everyone and empowers your community members.

Facebook

Facebook How To Marketing URL

Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

My tech-friends seem to be mostly agnostic liberals, and my views – though wonderful once you hear them in detail – would cost me a solid fourth at least of my current followers. I read this article about microblogging [link] , and although it has not made a fan out of me, it has opened my eyes to its wonders.

Twitter

Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite

Is Viral Marketing for Everyone? An Interview with Language.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

I was able to interview Dave, one of the brilliant minds behind the company and the game, and he has given some really great information about the viral marketing piece, including the costs and the execution. Tamar : How much (approximately) did the whole project cost? © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo!

Marketing

Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project

The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Somehow, individuals forget along the way that costs accrue when considering the venue, food, exhibit hall, and the staff required on hand to run the event smoothly. Free is beautiful, and costs are part of life.&# At the end of the day, contrary to seemingly popular belief, the hosts aren’t the only ones pocketing the money.

Products

Products Consultant Price Social Media

Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I was 12 at the time, it was 1993, and AOL cost $5.95/hour Whereas everything used to cost money (my highest AOL bill was $267.48 The cost: over $4k for a 386SX/25mhz with 170MB of hard drive space, 2MB RAM, a 2400 baud modem, and a 13″ monitor. Email is still email (but doesn’t cost $0.25 Answers Yahoo!

MySpace

MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. Doesn’t cost them much to assist others, and they reap many return benefits. Answers Yahoo!

Social Media

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 Â» Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Reddit Reddit: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It (10e20): Guest writer Maki talks about how to submit links to Reddit, to hit the front page, and to become a power user. 6 Things that Work Right Now on Reddit (10e20): We saw the introduction to Reddit, but what else can we learn? This kid is awesome.)

Marketing

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation

Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Does the fact that their costs come in the form of materials and mine in the form of time make theirs any more ‘real’? Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

Blogger

Blogger Press Release Advertising Review

7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is Not Free When you were a kid, you probably wondered why road infrastructure projects cost in the billions or that nature preservation programs cost millions. Heck, the real question you probably had was “why does everything cost so much money? The answer, quite simply, comes down to the real cost of labor.

Social Media

Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos

Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

” Among social networks driving traffic, Twitter and Reddit came out on top. Costs are rising: “a promoted trend on Twitter now costs $120,000 daily, up from between $25,000 and $30,000 when Twitter first launched in April 2010.” .” 30 Terrific Twitter Facts And Figures by Geeky Stuffs.

Statistics

Statistics Research Social Media B2B

Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Even though there is a cost for entry for some of the best resources, the solutions were highly worthwhile, I explained. High costs don’t always translate to better quality. Finally, I haven’t tried it yet, but Viralheat sounds promising , especially for the cost. …so thanks for showing the foundational parts.

Marketing

Marketing How To SEO Training

13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

The first image is free, but each gift thereafter costs $1. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo! Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

Facebook

Facebook Web 2.0 MySpace API

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008: Social Media, SEO, and More " techipedia | tamar weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How Much Money is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business : Aaron Wall discusses the cost of that #1 link backing up the data with some hard research. 7 Social Media Websites and their Impact on SEO explores Mixx, Sphinn, Twitter, Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon, and Reddit and shows the positive and negative impact of using each.

SEO

SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation

The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Tagging individuals in unflattering pictures that may end up costing your friends their jobs. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Further, if your friends request to be untagged, don’t make a stink of it.

Handbook

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon

How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Simply give a person a 3 or 4 sentence email explaining what it is & does why it was created how it can benefit them and then…if it is something where incremental access costs next to nothing (like a SAAS offering) then give them a free account to check it out. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo! All rights reserved.

Influencer

Influencer How To Press Release Blogger

Why SEO is Easier than Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

And hopefully you know the communities that you’re pitching to, because what works on Reddit might not work on Digg. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo!

SEO

SEO Social Media Marketing Digg

Make a Wish for Someone Else this Holiday Season (and the Power of.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

As an individual, perhaps a company or an entrepreneur who is looking to spread the word about a new product launch, you have the potential to keep marketing costs down by reaching out to bloggers and having them talk about your product. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. As a blogger, you have the potential to reach a tremendous audience.

Blogger

Blogger Yahoo Buy Twitter

An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I might actually hire a VA to do it for me…but that’s going to cost a pretty penny. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo! All rights reserved.

Facebook

Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy

Social Media Informer

Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Reputation Management with Dissatisfied Customers and Word of.

Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Is Viral Marketing for Everyone? An Interview with Language.

The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 Â» Techipedia | Tamar.

Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008: Social Media, SEO, and More " techipedia | tamar weinberg

The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Why SEO is Easier than Social Media Marketing

Make a Wish for Someone Else this Holiday Season (and the Power of.

An Open Letter to Facebook

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