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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). All this took a few weeks, a time scale we’ve never seen before. Again, by no means is this new.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Reply Jamie Gorman May 5, 2010 at 6:02 pm Tamar, I had a friend show me a FB page he is designing for an insurance agency where he put a promotional picture (save money on your insurance) where the profile picture would normally be.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Knowing the right people to send something to on StumbleUpon or keeping a conversation going on FriendFeed for example. 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. Answers Yahoo!

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

The most social media “active” industry sectors include healthcare, telecomm, retail and automotive, while companies in heavily regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, energy and utilities are among the social media laggards. such as financial services, insurance, energy and utilities are among the social media laggards.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You really want it to be removed from the sites that Spokeo aggregates from? – “Georgia health Insurance&# ) only a business name — who the heck is going to find me?! You might just have to hire a lawyer. Reply Chris Myles April 29, 2010 at 9:36 pm Yeah, I’m having quite the battle about that on Buzz.

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