Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. As they write on their blog : A Twitter community is just like your workplace or your neighborhood: it’s made of real people.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

. “I’m from XYZ Corp, and we sell blah blah&# isn’t interesting, but “I’m from XYZ Corp, and we’ve got some ideas for simplifying network security and reducing costs&# is. Social media marketing is about earning your audience’s attention. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# More importantly, Epic Change has a mission to empower individuals to tell stories in order to acquire financial resources to make positive change in their communities. Why social media?

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

This trend is welcomed not only by consumers who like the convenience of anytime banking, but also by financial institutions that like to streamline operations and cut down costs. opening a money market account ) from friends and family or a significant other than from an online community. opening an online savings account ).

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

If you are still evaluating the platform and are trying to estimate the possible returns, here are a few tips which you would want to consider: It doesn’t work for all – Business & Stakeholder Introspection Creating a campaign on Facebook & nurturing an online community requires a lot of time and effort. What is your Facebook plan?

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Using social media channels for customer support can both improve a company’s image—by demonstrating, publicly, responsiveness to customer issues—and reduce customer support costs. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn groups, community sites (e.g. Perform competitive and market research. Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. Digg: Newsworthy, Informational, and Funny Chris also mentions that he has used Digg as a news source. Twenty-two minutes after it hit the front page, it sat at 2099 Diggs. Seven minutes after that, it had 2661 Diggs. How do you get your news?

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 20, 2010

Quality at All Cost. Any website that offers great value, quality products and good after-sales service may benefit from a positive review, or mention on a topic-related community forum. This is where the trust factor plays such an important part. A website is only as good as the product it sells. But this also works both ways.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

My Bookmarks Digg Del.icio.us He turned the discussion to patients whose heart disease is so severe that they undergo bypass surgery, a traumatic and expensive procedure that can cost more than $100,000 if complications arise. million heart patients have angioplasties -- all at a total cost of around $30 billion. Start a Blog.

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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. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Your responsibility as a marketer is to understand that permission marketing might actually take work, but the other extreme is to choose an easy way out that will likely have a cost that may be hard (or impossible) to recover from. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

for this and sceptical organizations could roll-out this app to save productivity costs. Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under Social Media Conversation , Social media , Web 2.0 Third-party app: If (1) doesn’t hold true, a third-party vendor could build an app.

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The Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2009

While I would highly recommend all the ’5′ posts, here are some interesting pieces that I really like: “If there is no “R”, then the “I” becomes a “C” and that cost is always going to be too high.” Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under Web 2.0 In a presentation by Aaron Julius Kim about ROI]. [In

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Every bad sale costs you five. Here’s some more food for thought: Every blog post or negative review costs you thousands of customers. Some will go the extra mile to share with their friends exactly why they’re moving on, too, so don’t make any missteps that will cost you business down the road.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

And since the cost of adding calls to action on a website and/or sending email messages is relatively low (email sends are arguably the least expensive weapons in your marketing arsenal), failing to do so is an almost unforgivable sin for any enterprising social marketer. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Here’s what Sprint is thinking: you’re wasting our valuable customer service dollars and our errors are costing us too much money, so we’ll drop you and we’ll save big. It hit the Digg front page and then was blogged by hundreds of people. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 5, 2008

How much does it cost? Shopkeeper – Price slightly higher than 15k it costs 19k bucks. I must say its fulfills most if not all the features you’re looking out for. the shop-keeper uses all his experience to market the cellphone) Buyer – Ah. looks quite cool. Buyer – 19k ? I really cannot stretch beyond 15k.

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. Sounds a great proposition, especially when recession is on upward swing & markets are hitting rock bottom.

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The Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2007

Motivated by the desire of learning by sharing and to share your work with the communtiy, OSS Camps are not-for-profit events and we depend on our sponsors for covering our costs.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Before creating an online community of practice (COP), Michael Behounek, KM director for $1.25 Behounek once created a community to devise performance enhancements for a particular 2,000-horsepower pump used in the companys oil refineries. That gave us fertile ground to kick off the community. Comments Digg This.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 29, 2008

Kinshuk is an individual, a fresh MBA working for as a community manager for an open-source consulting company. Set of attributes, properties, features which neither me or my market not. Hidden/unknown to everyone. has four section.

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The Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

The first thing that strikes my mind when I talk about REVA is “cost&#. Yeah, REVA has been promoted so far as a cost-effective fuel efficient car for a typical Indian consumer. Having said that no can deny the cost-advantages it offers in the long run). If you have, what is the first impression that you get about it?

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 24, 2008

MindMaps allow you to do just that in a cool way MindJet’s MindManager software is the best tool around but it comes at a cost. Mindmapping tools ensure faster and smoother collaboration There is the famous old saying having your thoughts in mind is one thing and putting them on paper is another.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 23, 2008

Reply Randall Flynns August 4, 2008 at 2:33 am The main advantage of email marketing is to distribute information to a wide range of specific, potential customers at a relatively low cost using services. __ Randall Flynns Social Media Marketing – 727450031.175073 [link] Reply daksh July 26, 2008 at 1:01 am Hi gaurav, Thanks for dropping by !

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 30, 2007

Velnet shows a lot of promise and is best-fit solution if you are looking for a cost-effective domain hosting solution. Image source : Host Designs) Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 7 Comments Filed under Cool Stuff , Internet Marketing , Service Marketing 7 Comments Mayur September 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm visit [link] for more info.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 17, 2009

Good news [link] internous very interesting article… can you send other articles by email thanks [link] internous very interesting article… can you send other articles by email thanks [link] john janial Hi, Just found your blog on Technorati & Digg upcomming news feeds and read a few of your other posts. Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 22, 2008

Revenue model Revenue sharing tie ups with SMS service provider, Accessory Providers etc Low cost Banner Advertisements (Local/National) Generating traffic for CPC/CPM based ads.

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Myrland Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2009

Will you be slightly embarrassed when you answer that you cut staff, cut marketing, cut participation in the community, reduced your ability to have discussions with current and potential clients…on and on and on…which helped cash flow but didn’t result in any growth? Share Share this on del.icio.us

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Reply Linda February 14, 2008 at 11:36 pm I posted this on Digg. If we sell out we might make money but the cost is way to high. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make. Others aren’t.

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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. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Who is it that leaves comments, links to you on their own blogs, talks about you to their friends, Diggs and Stumbles your latest posts, and, eventually, buys whatever products you sell from your blog? But we’re talking about blogs, and on blogs, it’s the community that matters. Think about it for a second.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

And in his case, there would literally be thousands of people in other countries who would not have access to the valuable information to help improve their communities. For many, it still costs a lot or takes too much time to build the right type of interactivity. These are three examples from the dozens of people I talked to.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. Ultimately, there will be overhead “costs,&# such as monitoring your evangelists’ representation of your brand. Spotting your brand ambassadors should not be too tricky.

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