Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

That’s not really convincing social proof. Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. But, like good Social Media community members, I’m thrilled to be able to help my parents out and give back as well!

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Super list of 50 social media links Have you ever wanted to know more about how to make a huge impact in social networking? The “Middleman” of Social Media is Your Friend The Next Evolution of Social Media… You can’t handle the truth!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 152

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. Social media. For the Twitter holdouts, take heed: As far away as Singapore, where Daryl Tay attends Singapore Management University, social media classes are being held. Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. ReadWriteWeb.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Weve written about a number of companies that employ crowdsourcing to produce their product or service here on ReadWriteWeb, but in this post well specifically look at companies that allow you to leverage the crowd to get something done. Fixya is a question and answer community, in which people ask and answer technical support queries.

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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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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Brand evangelism is a word of mouth marketing tactic in which the ardent supporters of your service or product feel so passionately about your offerings that they act as unofficial spokespeople on your company’s behalf. Offer them free products, samples, or gifts. Spotting your brand ambassadors should not be too tricky.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For other businesses, their brand is already so well known that they may feel that they don’t have to step into social media at all. A well known news outlet contacted me a few weeks ago asking for advice on building visibility to her articles that were submitted to a social news site where I help moderate.

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Airlines Brands Social Media News 196

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Social media needs to be coupled with a creative strategy for maximum effectiveness, especially as everyone and their mothers join these sites and services to market themselves, their services, or their products. It’s lofty to consider social media as your only marketing aim. Thanks James! He’s not alone.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. A natural by-product of that is that recruiters such as myself will network with people on LinkedIn to generate referrals for openings. mobile web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Affiliate Marketing : Affiliates are individuals who market a particular product or service and who get paid commissions by a merchant when they make the sale. Social Media Marketing : In social media marketing, you are tasked with leveraging the social space through its media to market your products.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

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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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. How many of these new tactics have you adopted? Here are 99 ways, from giveaways to community building to media connections to offering discounts and so much more. Then again, you also need a great product!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert « Netcrema – creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit [.] Social Media is not the future, it’s present day mainstream business.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. 2010 by far was the biggest year yet in the Internet Marketing realm. , also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

With 350 million+ users, a self-promoting and natural way to have people promote your product, and a very active audience full of close friends and family, what’s not to like? You probably don’t want to keep that name, so I recommend changing it to something productive, like “Welcome&# , or “Introduction&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

The question was purposely left open-ended; I wasn’t necessarily seeking out attention in the form of a product pitch, despite the fact that many of those asked are prominent bloggers. Marketers should make great products that loyal readers or long-time friends or trusted colleagues choose to tell me about!

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If 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. Was it something you said?

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Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

Due to the length of this post, I could have given this information away as a product and sold it for a lot of money. A lot has changed from the days when Digg was the only share button people used on their posts and – besides going directly to a website – RSS was the most common way to consume blog content.

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Sites Industry Blogger News 96

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2006, social media was building steam in the United States. With the rise of Facebook’s popularity, the launch of Twitter, and the surge of influence from social news sites like Digg, social media looked to be a great breeding ground for marketers to make their mark. And make their marks they did.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 5, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

The more you read, the better and more prepared you will be to communicate through various social media channels. Use tools such as alltop.com and google.com/alerts to find the right blogs and new articles, and then subscribe to them through RSS using Google Reader. On her leisure time she like to play the violin.

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Social Media Brands How To Social Networking 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

: Jason Falls explores the commonly-discussed (but not easily answered) question about social media. Scared of Social Media? Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. But “social media marketing expert?&# You May Already be Pro! She didn’t think she was one. Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

I was reading tweets from a sea of twitterfeeds , which if you’re unaware, are totally automated posts that come from processing RSS feeds. Twitterfeeds are hardly the kind of thing a real human would ever want to read, especially one that wants to embark in social media marketing. Broadcasting works better as a billboard.

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Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

The initial sentiment was highly negative , and most concluded that the algorithm will penalize users who care much about the community and use it regularly. Both Kevin and Jay say that we should give the community the benefit of the doubt. Then the community “won.&# I think they know how valuable the community is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! fan pages)?

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