Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. State Indicator – Turns orange when you’re in that section 2.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 22, 2010

The intriguing piece of news for me was the fact that YouTube seemed to be taking the side of us naughty content “pirates&# complete with instructions on the YouTube blog on how to fight the charge. YouTube are learning… just like Digg did. Assassins Creed 2 and 3D Avatar game Tsuke (8). But “notice&# ?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The MyBlogLog Blog. We give you a list of all the people you consider a contact, and all the social web sites they are using. Connector looks at the public friends lists on del.icio.us, Pownce, Digg, Last.fm, and YouTube to see if youre connected there as well. Is that a blog post in your Messenger window? rocking out.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

When you tap into this power and combine Gmail with some other tools, it is perhaps the most essential site ever developed. How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified). Further, I have become a fan of Twitter - a micro blogging tool which you can control using Google Talk and other IM clients.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 8, 2009

Initially I was only following about 10-20 people that I had already known from other sites but by tracking comments and digging through my friend’s followers, I built up a decent list of people to follow on Twitter. This has been talked about on several websites like MWGblog , Global Geek News Blog , and WebProNews.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging That Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. In today’s episode I want to share my keynote at this year’s Social Media Marketing World – 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. Take the initiative to drive traffic to your blog.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

is an excellent system for archiving your favorite information from across the Net, tracking hot topics, and discovering new and useful sites. It allows you to quickly and easily add sites you like to del.icio.us So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in: [link]. Del.icio.us

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 12, 2010

We’re a new media company in many many ways, look at Avatar, that’s new media.&# So Avatar good, Google bad. It might not hurt to remember though that search engines send news sites A LOT of quality, monetizable traffic every single day, for free.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Most people who use RSS readers do so with the intent of subscribing to an aggregated river of news feeds, persistent searches and blogs. For example, I subscribe to high volume streams like Twitter timelines, AP news syndicates, various digg feeds and more. I read some blogs with google reader and some blogs with bloglines.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Dirk Singer uses data from an ExactTarget study to show that “US Twitter users in April 2010 were far more likely than general Internet users to post to forums (75% vs 25%), blog (72% vs 14%), comment on blogs (70% vs 23%) and post ratings / reviews (61% vs 20%). How-To Guides and Best Practices.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. Or, how when I worked with Bacardi we drove so much traffic to their site that we took down their servers. Leverage Facebook advertising to gauge the audience opportunity.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

ViperChill received 12,040 visitors from StumbleUpon in May , yet their average time on site was just 26 seconds (overall site average is 2 minutes and 24 seconds) and they each viewed around 1.22 With over 10 million active users on the site there is a lot of potential for certain content to get viewed thousands of times.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site. Do I have social media integration on my business blog? If you have a business blog, you have to integrate your social media profiles on it. Consider integrating your social profiles on blogs. This is wrong.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

You can save your profile (bio, URL avatar, background color scheme, and background graphic) to the server and upload a custom one at will. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

APRIL 17, 2022

There are way too many social media sites and you may not be using the best ones or get the maximum exposure. A Social Bookmarking Site – Similar to Delicious. A Social Voting Site – Similar to Digg and Reddit. This could be your image or an avatar you use. Add a Link to Your Website or Blog in Your Profile.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Every so often, a potential client comes to me and asks me to promote a blog post or article, mostly because they don’t have an audience for the blog post to spread on its own. For blogs, the answer is simple : your blog should be treated as more than just a platform to self-promote. Yes, it’s cheap.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Here are some tips you can apply to your Facebook marketing strategy that will put your Facebook Page leaps and bounds ahead of the competition: Maximize Your Avatar Visibility Profile pictures on Facebook can have a maximum size of 200×600 pixels. This applies to Pages as well.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 26, 2009

For example, I’ve managed to build a top 10 personal development blog in 12 months and I was voted the top social media marketer under 21. They hang out on blogs by people like Marc , Luciano and Tim. If you’re lucky, the top sites in your industry will be bloggers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Create multiple blogs based on multiple personal professional interests 2. Create a unique twitter account for each blog 3. I ran a sports site until just recently, and I LOVED to talk sports from that Twitter account. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here are some egregious sins that you must not perform on social media sites. Avoid these violations and learn how to manage and maintain online relationships on a variety of popular social media sites. Add an avatar and a bio at the minimum. Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Can we say spam?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

Now that Friendfeed aggregates every social site you use (for the most part — they’re still missing some ), anyone can see that you’ve just thumbed up that article on how to find porn behind a WebSense firewall even though you may have done it as a favor to your friend. I actually send people to [link] , fyi.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 26, 2010

Depending on the day, it’s either the #1 or #2 most-visited site on the web. How to set up a Facebook fan page that works by Direct Creative Blog. Facebook Marketing Tips: Make the Most of Your Fan Page by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. 10 Ways to Create a More Engaging Facebook Page by TopRank Online Marketing Blog.

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