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8 Questions to Answer Before You Pay to Advertise Your Business

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

So you think your business is ready to get into paid advertising channels? She’s not ready to buy a tablet right now, but she’s been researching tablets because once she gets her year-end bonus, she’s going to buy one. Her boss has been talking about buying a tablet next week. Or are you into them already? Meet Sally.

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How to Create a Kickass Product Without Touching the Dev Cycle

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If that ad makes much of an impression, I may eventually ask my friend about the product, but I probably won’t buy unless I get some sort of endorsement from people I know — especially if the product or service is costly. Maybe two or three people will buy.” I consider myself a former marketer. ” Lame.

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Is SMS Marketing Still a Viable Strategy?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Marketers are being forced to find ever more cost effective ways of engaging with users. Messages can deliver text alerts, subscriptions, broadcast advertising, competitions, campaigns for customer loyalty, customer profiling, cross-selling and reminders, the list goes on. A few statistics…. Implementation. Like this post?

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Facebook Fans: Are They Worth the Excitement?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In other words, having a Facebook page for your small business is a great way to advertise. The cost of 1000 impressions is $5 (according to Vitrue) so the cost of 60 million impressions is $300,000 (60 million x 5/1000=300,000). But after spending 14 minutes per day on Facebook, you probably already knew that. Like this post?

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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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.

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How to Hire Your Social Media Marketing Partner

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The advantage here is, or should be, full integration with all advertising activities. Possible downsides are cost and lack of flexibility. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Like this post?

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How to Select an Interactive Marketing Agency

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A couple of side notes: First, a quick definition of terms : An interactive agency is one that provides a full suite of digital services that typically includes SEO, paid search advertising, email marketing, social media, mobile marketing, and branding support. Web development could be part of the mix, but not necessarily. Like this post?

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