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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

May 29, 2010 at 11:34 am Right, if you did not dive into social media 3-4 years ago, especially in business where networking is crucial (like real estate, insurance, mortgages etc.), And social media will grow stronger and stronger; I wonder what Web 3.0 @Beth Thanks for outlining the points so well. Reply Jay B. will bring!

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). Reply Manuel Viloria February 24, 2008 at 3:34 am How about an arrow from the blogger that leads directly to Newspapers or to TV? Small business is slow to catch on. I run an IT support company for small businesses. It really worries me!

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? There are days when marketers may have to serve as internal evangelist by introducing key stakeholders to social media.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. For example, let’s say you’re an insurance agency or a bank.

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Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Think of all the attorneys that do insurance defense work…no friggin’ way could I do that and sleep at night. I’ve had Zinc before and it hasn’t killed my taste. Reply Todd Mintz February 6, 2008 at 1:23 pm It’s a personal choice.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I like to think of this as “Schrodinger’s Blogger&# , referring to the famous thought experiment which explains to us the rather odd concept of the quantum state, in which an event exists only as a waveform of possibilities (1 or 0) until it is observed, and that the act of observation changes the outcome of the experiment.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This authentification process is a cover, a sneaky trick… it allows Facebook to downgrade long-standing Pages to Community Pages (which get no News Feed action) at any time they want. After being the little darling of the media and bloggers for soooooo long, they have become way too arrogant and definitely a little dastardly.

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