Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

Being different and not buying into all the bells and whistles of self love (destruction in some cases) will only harm you in the long run. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Thanks for reminding me to stay the course.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If you don’t buy the extended warranty it costs you just to call and try to get help. Apple is never about the customer but their own bottom line and not begin engaged with the customers about issues through social media shows this even further. But I don’t consider it smart to try to convert new buyers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Do you always tell people to “buy now”, “buy before midnight”, “For the first 300 people”, etc? What you should do is to be insightful, insightful, insightful… and then “New price reduction on our favorite product, “X”. Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. Do I hard sell with my updates?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media (Search Engine Journal): I love how Jennifer Horowitz equates social media with the 7 sins. Twitter Twitter, the Most Important Website Since Google (97th Floor): Yes, Twitter is that important. 8 Lessons Learned as a Brand on Twitter (tins/Rick Klau): Rick Klau works for Google.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I usually do all my blogging on google docs and then export it. I am no web programming expert, but I do understand that my blog is basically hot linking pictures from google docs, but isn’t there be some kind of a work around? As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Folks that spent considerable time on Digg prior to the update, by and large, were looking for a social news site. It’s a social site with news secondary. Is there any?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued. Google, Wikipedia and FriendFeed. It’s a great system … in theory.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

Moreover, allowing users to “try before they buy&# was incredibly clever and keeps the hype strong. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Monier suggests that it could be flawed, however, as in describing a “diamond:&# what if a baseball enthusiast chooses to buy his wife a nice piece of jewelry? My favorite session by far ( sorry, Rebecca ) was the Generation Google session. Is Google loved or hated between your friends? Everyone laughs.] Rand comes up.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

With 1,200 users terminated at once, I’m not sure people can easily buy that. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. Time will only tell.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed. TV media buys are based on people picking what was on TV.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

They also were able to flex their muscles and throw around dollars to buy up all the valuable advertising and marketing opportunities. In the past 5-10 years, social media has come along and changed advertising and marketing from a dollars and quantity game to a quality game. However, things have changed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

“How much could I buy this for?&# Reply Google Tutor January 18, 2008 at 2:20 pm Tamar, thanks for sharing, great to see in this on the web. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Our thoughts are with you!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

No need to buy John Reeses’ new product that will set you back $2k. Follow with Aaron Wall in how to avoid Google or they will pentrate your right to privacy. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. comprehensive social media marketing training there is. Creative quant.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Frank Lee shares a Free Gift to guide you step-by-step to “Breakthrough Article Marketing&# – simply visit his site today and discover how you too can generate loads of free buying traffic using a simple 5 step unique article writing method in his Internet Marketing Systems.

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JUNE 3, 2010

I turned off the posts on Buzz mostly for the issue that Google doesn’t truncate the posts. Meanwhile, I always share my posts via Google Reader and at least doing so encourages people to click on the post on Buzz. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How Much Money is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business : Aaron Wall discusses the cost of that #1 link backing up the data with some hard research. SEO Mastermind Aaron Wall Brings Bad News : In an interview with Entrepreneur magazine, Aaron Wall talks about all things SEO. Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Their goal is to send press pitches, not to buy ads on your site. If a blogger outreach consultant or social media agency emails you a story pitch, read their signature. Most PR people aren’t in a position to buy ads. Rule #4: This could be the start of something big. I don’t think so.

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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. For more info search “Facebook like replaces become a fan&# on google. This further assisted in making the switch.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

My solution has been to respond with a note that the publisher doesn’t allow me to distribute that material (that’s true) and suggest that they buy a copy of the book that includes a CD. Reply Carri Bugbee July 30, 2010 at 5:00 am Todd, can I buy you lunch and pick your brain??? You get the idea. Yet people always ask!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Matt Cutts Matt Cutts is a blogger and Principal Engineer at Google, where he heads Google’s Webspam team. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. He also co-founded Weblogs Inc.

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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. fundamentals from the Google Webmaster blog. You then need to start executing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

And it doesn’t help for marketing — at least not the social kind. If I wanted to shout it out, I’d buy a billboard over the Strip in Las Vegas. I also need to be a tech geek and say while we MUST add our human touch to it, a lot sharing in social media can be automated!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. Lacy : Let’s talk about Sheryl Sandberg, the person that you just hired from Google. Lacy : You’ve created a great innovation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

« Direct Marketing Observations July 26, 2010 at 1:36 pm 3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg August 25, 2010 at 9:09 am { 84 comments… read them below or add one } Ana Hoffman YourNetBiz April 14, 2010 at 10:46 am Profound and thought-provoking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail. For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Personal > Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on February 6, 2008 Share Awhile ago, I used Twitter to talk about one of my favorite cold remedy vitamins, Airborne.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Audiences there are large, but they are there to connect, not to buy. Companies need to leverage different social media channels if they want buyers. You know, going back to my own history, Facebook [Fan Pages] and Twitter weren’t around when I started offering social media strategy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

So, Facebook, when are you going to have a Business Center that regularly communicates with owners of small businesses or larger businesses who don’t place ad buys on your network? Basically, Facebook thinks they can run a similar model to Google, not having live customer service.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

She did receive many gifts, and emails circulated frequently taking up collections: “We want to fill her room with flowers, buy her a digital camera, a scanner, send her to Disney World&#. Usually when I use Google to investigate scammy items, I will typically see references to its fraudulent nature on page 1 of results.

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