Idaconcpts

JANUARY 25, 2011

However, things changed dramatically in December 2010 as Compete reported that Groupon had over 17,000 referring sites, while LivingSocial was under the 7,000 mark. As a response to this valuation, LivingSocial promoted for the first time in its history a major brand, Amazon.com, through a $20-gift-card deal at just $10. Tweet This!

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Search engines and social networks are competing (and combining) in a myriad of ways. Heres a brief play-by-play: First, Googles Social Search feature graduated from an opt-in Google Labs experiment to a default feature on Google.com for signed in users - although it wont leverage much of Facebook. What do you think? View an alternate.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites. Like The Huffington Post there are also competing Facebook buttons at work.

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 26, 2010

Your brand name is not doing very well and you would like a part of the business to be re-branded and market it separately. The more competitive your site’s niche is, the more time and money you would need to spend so your microsite will be in a position to compete with other long established power websites. The Key Questions.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 24, 2010

Posted | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places : Comments Chad Thanks for sharing. In the meantime, here is Facebooks official video about the new Facebook Places.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Also, if a publisher has made a brand for himself online, even if a rival manages to mass -1 his content, how can we discount the publisher’s followers? They wouldn’t want their favorite brand to be mass -1ed, would they? They wouldn’t hesitate to +1 to salvage their favorite brand.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. link] People are talking about your business, service or brand.

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises? Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Face it, it’s a competitive landscape out there, especially for tourists who flock to familiar names but perhaps do not realize that there are other options in the city.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Across the Internet, in news, blogs, tweets and other social media , millions of people are talking about major brands. The volume and character of this buzz are predictors and influencers of brand performance; these exposures “count” in the real world, sometimes even more than the advertising-derived exposure typically measured.

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News Report Social Media Reputation 111

Viper Chill

AUGUST 28, 2012

But there it is, growing at an extremely profitable rate, competing with some extremely well established brands and companies with huge marketing budgets. My advice to people who haven’t started yet would be to get a blog host and your own domain name (which you’ve done) and create a brand that is distinctive.

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Adsense How To Forums Sites 77

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

But while a company blog should carry over certain key branding elements (e.g., Compendium , HubSpot ) to tools built into web content management system (CMS) platforms , but it’s tough to find an alternative that can compete with the flexibility, affordability, capability and search engine-friendliness of WordPress.

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WordPress Hubspot URL Widget 185

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Generally, these sites exist in the form of graphic design contest web sites where clients put up a call for submissions for a piece of graphic design work, and designers compete for a cash prize by submitting designs. Most recently, the site launched a co-branded version of their service for Best Buy. Answers for tech support.

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Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make. People are different, communities are different and marketers/brands are different. As a result, the acceptance or success of a social media marketer will vary in different communities, using different tools and for different brands.

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 9, 2010

I’ve been reading “Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders&# by Adam Morgan, and as any AdWeek publication, it is a wonderful and captivating read filled with a lot of actionable insights. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn. Post on Google Buzz.

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Airlines Wireless Insurance Technorati 117

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

These should align with your overall company or brand marketing and customer service plan. You are competing against millions of other blogs for the eyeballs of your readers. Social Bookmarking Sites (Digg, Delicious, Technorati, etc.) If someone took the time to write it, respond to it. A set of tactics that can be measured.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

1 spot to Google in February 2008, and now sits in third place, according to Web analytics research by Compete. Facebook Outpaces Yahoo to Become No. 2 Site on Web By Jon Brodkin Facebook is now the second most popular Web site in the United States, passing Yahoo with 133 million unique visitors in January, according to new research.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

In fact, I used a Sony Vaio laptop that had no hard drive (really), ran from a Xubuntu Live CD, and every time it booted up I would be presented with a brand new operating system. Tweetdeck If you’re using Twitter in any way to build your personal brand or business, then Tweetdeck will help keep you organised. No problem.

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Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. I can tell you that finding these articles isn’t easy!

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Brands that are already established naturally have it a lot easier; they already have a following. Yes, Twitter and Facebook and Digg and other niche sites cost nothing to join, making social media a relatively free marketing option. Building a brand name. Have you ever become someone’s best friend in a week?

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Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. Trackur is sort of Google Alerts on steroids and competes with products like Radian6 and Attentio. A social media monitoring tool that combines powerful features (e.g.,

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Tools Social Media Radian6 CoTweet 188

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Thanks to brand new technologies that consistently and constantly claim our attention spans, thereby requiring us to shift our focus on a very regular basis, we’re no longer willing or able to sit still. Brands have to actually put in the work now to see results because the gold rush has ended. But that point was inevitable, no?

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Dan Neely discusses which social networking sites get the most attention from marketers (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, no surprises there), how marketers can best use social media for branding and business development, and concerns about the use of social media in brand planning. No bells, no whistles, just business.&#

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Viper Chill

MARCH 2, 2011

I won a brand new PC running Windows Vista for my winning entry on marketing. I contributed to the site with posts about my success getting on the homepage of Digg and getting tons of traffic from Fark, but I had no idea those posts would lead to what they did. One day I received a random friend request on MSN.

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Forums Project Sites Digg 79

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

If you’re a brand new Internet Marketer, choose a discipline and a niche that you can tackle head on and be successful at. Not All Agencies are Created Equal As evidenced by the the story I provided in this article, not all agencies are competent. All of it, SEO, building sites, creating brand awareness…whatever it took.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Myrland Marketing

JUNE 29, 2010

And nothing against them, but there are just some brands that we don’t want to be social with? Would you follow a brand like Monistat? And despite the “relationship&# discussions around SM, I still think that most brands are using SM as a different way to broadcast. Share Share this on del.icio.us

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RFP Social Media Comments Training 77

Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

First, if you look at their traffic stats with Compete you can see that they have traffic spikes and dips at around the same time: Then, looking at feed subscribers , despite the large difference at the start of the graph, their growth rate is on a very similar consistent rise. I welcome creative criticism too! Keep up the great work.

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Blogger Sites Delicious Comments 76

Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Use Postrank to Find Engaging Posts When I wrote a post about the 28 items in my internet marketing toolbox, I covered a nifty little service called Postrank Analytics which lets you see your most shared blog posts on sites like Digg, Delicious and Twitter. You no longer need to have a big bag of cash to start an international business.

How To 77

How To Delicious StumbleUpon Postrank 77

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

— If you liked this article, please share it on del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg. — If you liked this article, please share it on del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg. Posted on 12 October 2008 in Productivity & Organization , Technology | Digg |. I’d appreciate it. :). Productivity 2.0: Del.icio.us |.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

Brand new blogs like The Verge are being flooded with more traffic than those that have been around for the best part of a decade. A lot has changed from the days when Digg was the only share button people used on their posts and – besides going directly to a website – RSS was the most common way to consume blog content.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 18, 2010

Will you sign a 6-month non-compete agreement? I will never buy a site without speaking to the seller on some form of instant messaging service (usually Skype) and the questions I usually ask include: Why are you selling? What are the sites expenses? How many hours per week do you work on the site? What is that time spent doing?

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Buy Sites Questions Project 68

Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Check aggregation sites like Inbound.org, Growth Hackers, Hacker News, Panda, Digg, etc. If you have a particular keyword or two that is central to your brand or area of expertise, look for people sharing content with that keyword. Other options: Digg Reader , The Old Reader , Flipboard. Digg Deeper. Add to Pocket.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. As of January 2010, Craigslist boasts close to 50 million unique visitors per month, according to Compete.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The SEO Angle If you’re a brand new student in the school of thought of SEO, after you’ve learned about improving your web presence via search engines, there are countless opportunities to prove to yourself that you know what you’re doing. No, building your personal brand in social media does not count.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Digg 178

Idaconcpts

OCTOBER 29, 2010

With most brands shifting their social efforts online to networks like Facebook and Twitter, online reputation management (ORM) has become an important, if still new aspect of online marketing. ORM combines both SEM and SMM: building a brand’s social user base and monitoring its search results to maintain its overall online image.

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SEO Journal Technorati Campaign 132

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Support Slowness It’s up to all of us to redefine what social media “success&# looks like, to focus our efforts on building kinship day-to-day, and yielding sustained passion for the brand. I tried to explain to him that it was an investment in brand building and brand awareness which is a long term commitment.

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