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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed.

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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. I plan to provide travel services and while many will find my articles and posts interesting most will probably not use my services. Hopefully, though, you’re considering other social networks to broaden your social media reach.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

StumbleUpon How to Become a Top StumbleUpon User (or Why You Shouldn’t Really Bother) (Dosh Dosh): Maki gives a straight honest assessment of the social bookmarking site. Internet Marketer’s Guide to StumbleUpon (ViperChill): A beginner’s guide into using StumbleUpon for your marketing efforts.

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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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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

People love data, and they love knowing how data can be aggregated to make conclusions. They love charts and graphics, and they love the findings that can be made from this data in aggregate. My blog has been evolving as I’ve recognized my desire to move more into commentary, with feature length travel articles sprinkled in.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I have encountered another FB fan page issue: as owner of travel agency start-up I cannot get the fan page address until I have 25+ fans (it used to be higher in the past)…ridiculous arbitrary number…why can’t I give a fan page address directly to potential customers? Just my $0.02. You might just have to hire a lawyer.

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