Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. One of my friends said, “Advertising is the price you pay for being boring.” Were they going to be interested in fashion? Nobody really knew.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

. : Yeah, well it’s definitely – I think that Twitter is still a fan of open development, just not open development that impinges upon their core revenue model, which is consumer experience enhanced with advertisements and social ads. People are starting to buy the courses. You need to go buy this course.”

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can survey your customers, although that’s not always the best approach because the questions are not fresh in their minds – they’ve already made their buying decision. Is there no place for old-fashioned “selling&# using social media? Remember the cold call? A future post perhaps? To really do so.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Is this a great way to bring remote friends’ commentary into a purchase decision (fashion) that is driven by peer feedback? In addition to their desire to be the hub of the Web, and create the greatest analytics-driven advertising platform imaginable, Facebook wants to enable our relationships to curate the world for us.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

In true big coporate fashion they ignore the little guy. They fail to take notes on good PR and instead take notes from GM b/c “they've always been a good example.&# GM ran commercials recently on “paying back their loans in full&# which is not entirely true ( [link].).

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

Having long ago passed MySpace as the most popular social network, Facebook recently replaced Google as the most-visited website in the U.S. Facebook Advertising Tricks for B2B Marketers by Buzz Marketing for Technology. Check out 40 stunning examples of pages for movies, artists, food & beverage brands, fashion and more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), Social media can be seen as a tool for a marketer, but not a static one like an advertisement. It’s not about any of the tools.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Opening the kimono and giving customers and prospects a better sense of who is part of the company, how that company operates, and what it stands for in a less formal, more spontaneous fashion is doable. The conversation is icing on the cake, and it requires much more work of the old-fashioned sort. And that’s a worthy objective.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2013

Even the biggest sites in the world eventually fail (remember MySpace?). For example, you might use OptinSkin on your fashion blog but that doesn’t mean your fashion-interested readers will want to use it as well. This guy has never, ever told us to go out and buy Nike shoes or Wilson tennis rackets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

All this stuff you can do with your friends now…except browse their submitted stories in a normal fashion?? canwediggit ) The internet doesn’t need another MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Multiply, etc. canwediggit ) The internet doesn’t need another MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Multiply, etc.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Early in my online career I did a lot of website strategy and online advertising. One of the sadder experiences of my short career occurred around an online advertising campaign. Social media for me is like selling PR to a company who had only done advertising. Why was advertising fine and pr questionable?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook provides a way for users/consumers to interact with the brand; the website is a controlled medium that provides marketing/advertising instead of user feedback. Despite their size you would have to think that a Google, Apple or Microsoft could still buy them without blinking. Facebook is a #website too after all!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook provides a way for users/consumers to interact with the brand; the website is a controlled medium that provides marketing/advertising instead of user feedback. Despite their size you would have to think that a Google, Apple or Microsoft could still buy them without blinking. Facebook is a #website too after all!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Certainly, brand communities like My Starbucks Idea and Fiskateers are successful in this arena – and we’ll soon see many more companies using their Facebook fan pages in this fashion. You could say the same about Advertising which has evolved into an array of different distribution channels (i.e. over the past 300 years.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

adults say they give advice about purchases on social networking sites, only 17% say they seek out such advice when making buying decisions. “70% of social media users between the ages of 18-34 regularly use Facebook more than other sites such as MySpace, Twitter, and Classmates.com,&# and women use Facebook more than men.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

In true Twitter fashion, it wasn’t “rolled out” per se, it just appeared as part of the API that third parties access. I don't want to play Mafia Wars, buy a cartoon pig or anything else. Regardless of the reason, as the current teen population ages, it threatens Twitter’s preeminence unless adoption rates soar. to people like me.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 26, 2009

If you are able to share your thoughts without having an “advertisement&# strategy in your mind – then it can work Reply Glen says: October 27, 2009 at 10:54 am You’re welcome Hakan, thank you for taking the time to comment. Reply Jen says: October 27, 2009 at 9:52 am Hi Glen Thank you for this. I am already doing that.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

If you can afford it, buy professional listening tools, like Radian6 or others in that category. Buy an easy-to-remember, easy-to-spell, content-appropriate domain name if you can. Facebook and/or MySpace are useful social networks where you can build outposts (see next list). advertising. Be sure to stay aware of those.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

WordPress SEO: Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog is written by WordPress optimization expert and coder Joost de Valk and gives you some great tips on how to use WordPress in a search engine friendly fashion. The “Poochie&# Effect : While I love social media, one-way advertising is still practiced by many companies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. I typically tell those kinds of people that they can go to hell or that they can buy an advertisement or an hour of consulting. Answers Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s a benefit, not a drawback that (despite what others might proclaim) there is no social media playbook that can taken off the shelf and executed in rote fashion for all companies. Flexibility There are no right answers in social media, just answers that are more likely to be correct.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

It’s not that costly to buy a few domain names (brand new or aged), invest in web hosting, and start applying that knowledge you’ve learned to websites. That’s not something you can easily do by just buying a few domain names and building up a real website presence. You then need to start executing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

That is of course more time consuming than reaching hundreds, thousands, or millions of customers at one time with a paid advertisement. I think this is a crucial point because no one is going to argue (at least seriously I hope) that social media is easy or can be automated in any fashion. How could it not be so?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

One user sees your tweet, clicks through to the blog, and eventually buys $1,000 worth of X from you. One user sees your tweet, clicks through to the blog, and eventually buys $1,000 worth of X from you. One user sees your tweet, clicks through to the blog, and eventually buys $1,000 worth of X from you.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If you come to Austin expecting it to be laid out if front of you, for it all to make sense in an orderly, pain-free fashion you’ll leave disappointed. But, if you embrace the randomness and connect your own dots, you’ll learn a lot about the industry, the people in it, and maybe even yourself. Not bad for a first try!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Within 12 months of its invention, 1,200 companies entered the radio “business&# in some form or fashion. May 6th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Does this sound familiar? So said Malcolm Gladwell in a stirring speech given Monday to the AAA Annual Meeting in Scottsdale.

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