Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB. vBulletin is another powerful option with a small upfront cost. Once you have the ball rolling, you’ll be well on your way to cutting support costs and building greater brand loyalty. Medium to enterprise companies may require more powerful solutions.

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How to Create a Kickass Product Without Touching the Dev Cycle

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If that ad makes much of an impression, I may eventually ask my friend about the product, but I probably won’t buy unless I get some sort of endorsement from people I know — especially if the product or service is costly. Maybe two or three people will buy.” I consider myself a former marketer. ” Lame.

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Is SMS Marketing Still a Viable Strategy?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Marketers are being forced to find ever more cost effective ways of engaging with users. Costing as little as $0.05 (2.5p) per message, there are few other methods than provide such a strong ROI. In terms of rate of response, the simple SMS dominates the market. A few statistics…. Implementation. is a post written by Tamar Weinberg. ].

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Product Life Cycle (PLC) refers to the life of a product in the market with respect to business/commercial costs and sales measurements and a social media life cycle goes through similar phases as well. Babu is a management graduate who tries to view social media from a management perspective. [ Like this post?

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8 Questions to Answer Before You Pay to Advertise Your Business

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

She’s not ready to buy a tablet right now, but she’s been researching tablets because once she gets her year-end bonus, she’s going to buy one. Her boss has been talking about buying a tablet next week. Is your brand and site optimized? Meet Sally. Like this post?

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When to Thank Your Social Media Fans

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These are the people who take the time to read the company’s posts, and in spite of information overload and hyper-extended schedules, respond by clicking, “Liking,” or buying a company product. Social media can indeed provide a time- and cost-effective way to conduct market research. Why is that? Another nice perk of being kind!

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Facebook Fans: Are They Worth the Excitement?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The cost of 1000 impressions is $5 (according to Vitrue) so the cost of 60 million impressions is $300,000 (60 million x 5/1000=300,000). Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Per year, this calculated the number $3.6

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