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AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a major consideration for us, given how much I travel (and how much I’ll likely travel in the next couple years after The Now Revolution – my forthcoming book with Amber Naslund – is published in February). Safe travels! Safe travels to you all. Happy travels. Welcome and best of luck.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. Unlike your blog, which is on an island, the Pitch is mobile and travels around to all the places you need it to – email, social networks, search engines, etc., Im Jay Baer.

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JULY 28, 2010

.&# Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Buy your own product.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

From what I’ve heard and read, one of the largest hurdles to clear is getting leadership to buy off on Web 2.0, How much, if any, outreach do you do on other blogs/social networks? Having the Blogger team speak on our behalf has made our mission a bit easier and more understanding to the traveling public.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Combine that with location and mobile data, and you get real-time smart agents that tell you whom you should approach in a restaurant to buy a drink. Customers could tell everyone about your product face to face, as they have for centuries, but it's more efficient through social media and we, as marketers, can measure the result.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. 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. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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APRIL 13, 2010

While it pre-dates the Internet (and commercial air travel, ATMs, competitive eating, Red Bull and a lot of other stuff we take for granted), its core premise serves as the foundation for social media effectiveness. After getting my drink, I went up to him and began to express my frustration with networking. An App, I'm in!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Buy something, get something. Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. If so, don’t.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it). It’s not about any of the tools.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. Help clients take their message to consumers directly, impacting purchase intent by providing truly helpful information at the right time in the buying cycle. As Jay Baer recently [.] Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Money makes the world go round. You get the idea. I mean, really.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. There are some elements of Disqus I don’t like, especially that it doesn’t always play nice with other plug-ins, but it does make commenting easier and faster for most of you who already have a Disqus account.

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APRIL 8, 2010

I've heard others claim that they keyboard and USB adapters allow it to be laptop-like, but to me what buy a device when you're just going to attach a bunch of things to it that makes it more like a laptop? I've been thinking about making it my conference travel/presentation device. link] Zack Nice analysis!

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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. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Word travels. Oh…and I MAKE them buy your book… hehee~! While I’m a big fan of the O’reilly books, I will certainly buy the one you recommended since IMHO you are a very credible resource. Still, people buy into programs without knowing and doing research. Make educated buying decisions!

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

LinkedIn is the most popular business-oriented social networking site there is. Once you create your account, start by following these people/lists: Read LifeHacker’s The Six Ways You Should be Using Twitter Take a look at the people I’m following for a good mix of social media, Government 2.0 (and Hope this helps.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Once you fire up your social media strategy, it doesn’t travel as fast as that silver bullet either. Social media is a lengthy, tedious process. Most of social media relates to relationship building, which is a time-consuming process. Audiences there are large, but they are there to connect, not to buy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

Even more, when he learned that my husband and I would be traveling, he made specific arrangements with the parking tenant to let us park in the lot for those 9 days to save us the unnecessary fees and hassle. My safety was more important to him than anything and he was not enthusiastic about me traveling underground if he could avoid it.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Ultimately they are likely losing three customers who travel a lot because of their social media responses, probably more from this than from the room problem – I can overlook an underpaid hourly staff member at the desk or cleaning service. 2) Kara is right, social media is still relatively new. They seem to get it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

I was recently moved by “The Secret Millionaire&# and wanted to realize the dreams of someone who may not be able to buy anything at all — so I decided to make sure my own purchases included gifts for young children.? At 78 years old, there isn’t much of her social security to buy extras.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Today, I’ve fortunately been upgraded to first class, which happens infrequently because I travel enough to make it exhausting, but not enough to make it rewarding. Air travel has devolved to the point that it’s essentially a shared national joke, like Trump’s hair or Paris Hilton’s vacuousness. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. So while we manage many pages, we don’t buy FB advertising for all of them, some clients do it through their media buying agency.

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