Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Your tweets, posts and comments should all be coordinated to meet the ultimate goal, which is to establish trust, build your brand, and increase sales. Which is why, of course, your business needs a killer social media strategy. Does your brand need a makeover? What are their issues? You’ll find out here first.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

You can still draw attention to yourself and use one of the aforementioned content hooks…however, you need to remember that your role is to advance the conversation, not take it over, and that furthering the dialogue ultimately furthers your social media brand & helps you develop relationships with all the participants.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

And the more intricate your external efforts become, the more social, mobile, and interactive your website must become. Here are three examples of brands that appear to be taking this message to heart: Fandango.com Best-known as a portal for buying movie tickets online, the site is actually quite diverse in terms of its content offerings.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Page is a great way to use it for building brands, calling people to action, and/or build ideas. GetSatisfaction The best way to offer your clients the best customer service is by also allowing them the ability to resolve the issues themselves and share their questions and answers with anyone, even if that person is not a client.

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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. What’s the moral of the story?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Wouldn’t it be safer, for the sake of maintaining the integrity of your business name or your personal brand, to ask permission first? And then it’s not an issue of apologizing to me; you’ll publicly have to apologize to everyone who I’ve shared my dismay with. Why should you do now, apologize later ?

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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. Marketing on the Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients (Michael Fruchter): I love the graphic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 2, 2008

Michael Reply Michael Brito April 2, 2008 at 11:22 am I’m getting mine redone as well but I am having MySQL issues at the moment. As far as Custom search concern, you have to create new page with page title “Search Results&# and paste the code from Googles Search results code text box. Soon though. Glad I did.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

However, it’s been a long-standing issue that Digg has not acknowledged its users to satisfaction. This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. It’s hard to say if that will happen again.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 5, 2023

With more than one billion active members, Instagram is one of the most prominent social networking channels among brands. Here, 83% of consumers discover new products and services, and brands can reach over 850 million people with ads. Here, Instagram competitor analysis tools are the way to go.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

As someone who is required to monitor your brand, there will never be a day when all is quiet. And if you do go on a real vacation, when you get back from that trip, you’ll need to tend to your child yet again and most likely address issues that arose when you were gone. Maybe it’s on a forum.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Of course, the entirety of social media cant be summed up in one blog post, so these are just a handful of subjects listed below. Lesson # 1 Personal Branding. Dan Schawbel , EMCs first social media specialist, returned to Bentley College to do a presentation about personal branding and social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Part 2 hasn’t been posted as of the compilation of this report, but you should know that SEO is about a strong brand, that you must perform research, real value produces great results, and you must understand where to circulate the message to get the best results. New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live !

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

People interact with brands online because they want deals. Based on this information, fresh content with actively engaged brand adopters are is key. This is basic News Feed Optimization. You’ll find that as your page grows, you’ll likely be tasked with handling customer service issues. Sure, I guess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

If you’re going to participate in social media marketing, you better be prepared to wait. Brands that are already established naturally have it a lot easier; they already have a following. If you’re a new face in the crowd, people will be especially skeptical of who you are and why you are here. (You

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

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. But those basic rules will apply everywhere social media and marketing collide.

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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. Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. You can’t do everything at once. Word travels.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

What happened to a simple news site? All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. If they wanted social networking, they had their options: Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, etc.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Additionally, because we feature an exclusive ad inventory from some of the biggest brands in the world including Blackberry, L’Oreal, Dominos Pizza, National Geographical, and Microsoft our ads are actively of interest to site visitors. Anyway, thanks both of you, for your thoughtful conversation on the issue.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

They just want the freebies without being specific about their issue. Reply Preston Ehrler July 29, 2010 at 4:30 pm This issue is not only common, per your evidence, in the Social Media circle, but has permeated every corner of the business world. I have two perspectives on this issue. Thank you for writing this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s why Zappos is always the big Twitter brand awareness case study. The answer for that is: “it depends.&# ) The @tamar Twitter account is my personal brand and what I love to do above all else, but it’s business account with just a bit of personal stuff. The issue of time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The best place you can place your brand on Facebook is through a Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P&# , not to be confused with your personal Profile). This number should be no surprise — when people “fan&# your Page, their friends see it, and your brand spreads organically.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

StumbleUpon is different from many other social sites in that it works via a toolbar installation on your browser. Once it gathers personalized information from you (hobbies and interests), you can start surfing with StumbleUpon to find brand new sites that are related to your interests as suggested by other users on the service.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

A good company leader would actually recognize that a social news network implies that there are participants involved and that the users are the most important part of the service. As a brand, it is cold, cynical and not as smart as it thinks. It cannot change, but it has to change. A bit like a lot of it’s users.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

There’s relationship building (see rule #6), influence, branding, and more. Handling all incoming inquiries professionally (and even quickly) can do wonders on indirectly building up your blog (and maybe even your brand) with high regard. Excuse me, but since when is branding worthless?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Kaycee Nicole Swenson brought her sparkly brand of wholesome, flirtatious courage to a wide audience on the internet from 1999 through May 14, 2001 , when her mother Debbie announced that Kaycee had passed away suddenly. The main one: give to reputable non-profit groups and *steer* individuals towards these groups when in need.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

And bravo for bringing up the issue of eloquence. Reply Rosemary ONeill February 24, 2010 at 1:32 pm This article should be issued with every new blog username. Great for new bloggers and old-hand bloggers alike. The issue of the “personality&# leaving with the brand is something that is totally understandable.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

What I do think, is that this video raises important questions — like whether or not we know we’re being marketed to; and how successful a marketing campaign can be if it doesn’t tie in to the product or branding or encourage us to take some form of action.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

4 Reasons Many Big Brands Downplay SEO : Why aren’t all Fortune 500 companies engaging in SEO? How to Get New Web Sites to Rank Quickly : Aaron Wall discusses some strategies to get high rankings with a brand new site — and we know those are sites that often need to take time to build trust. Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

By this point, it was evident that it was going to be difficult to reach a representative on behalf of a company about an issue that actually has some legitimacy. There’s a clear error in their promotion and they aren’t acknowledging the issue. That’s not how social media works. Here’s to you, TLC.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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JUNE 6, 2011

His company provides traditional & social pay-per-click (PPC) management, natural search optimization (SEO), social media/feed marketing (SMO) and online reputation management (ORM) services to national clients. Contributor to the Social Media Marketing Magazine – B2B Column. Michael Brenner is a Sr.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

You create a brand new account on Facebook. Reply Susan Blood June 24, 2010 at 7:06 am My biggest issue with businesses using personal pages is that if you friend them, they have access to your information. If I find someone that I have friended is less than reputable, I unfriend them. The one on your birth certificate).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > An Open Letter to Facebook An Open Letter to Facebook by Tamar Weinberg on April 28, 2010 Share I started this letter before f8, so for the record, it’s not about anything new. It’s sad, really.

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