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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To have credibility, you need to have other people in your field willing and able to testify to your competence. People will expect you to back up your brand with the truth, so when you fail to perform, they immediately begin to question your competence. Rather than stay in your own zone all the time, get out there and meet people.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The major “Web 2.0″ ″ and social networking technologies that have been created in the last several years have been a major boon for consumers and web users. MBA 101: you can only compete on price or product differentiation. Let’s be honest for a second here.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises? Brian Simpson is a cancer survivor and discovered Twitter in the spring of 2008 when he endured the grueling process of chemotherapy for a period of 7 months. Is it even possible? We can say that it is. In fact, the Roger Smith Hotel did it quite successfully.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. Everything today can be turned into a public spectacle that can make or break you.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, not only does your blog need to stand out from the average ones that are popping up every day, but you also need to compete with established blogs, with their loyal fan bases, that have been around for years. The trouble is, with so much competition out there, your blog really has to stand out from the crowd.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Nicole Dominguez June 10, 2010 at 10:05 am As a young blogger myself, I find it hard to compete with those adults that are older than me. I just checked out your blog and it’s great. Reply Apostolos June 10, 2010 at 9:42 am Thanks, Tamar! Reply Tamar Weinberg June 10, 2010 at 10:26 am Hey Nicole – you do!

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on July 8, 2008 Share With many individuals finding great success with social media (and as an aside, a basic understanding of search engine optimization ), they immediately consider themselves social media marketers and consultants (as well as seasoned SEOs) and offer to sell their promotional services. (All