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10 Areas Where Small Businesses Lack an Online Competitive Edge

Kikolani

WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr have made it so that anybody can put up a website. Making yourself known online requires building relationships with influencers as well as keeping consumers engaged with online conversations and community building. A Cluttered, Ugly Website Design.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Taking advantage not only connecting with people but building relationships with them before selling. I think you can learn something from aggressively working at relationship building – doing it often, connecting with people who sync with you rather than your company. Selling should not even be a big part of the picture.

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5 Fundamentals That Determine How Fast Your Blog Grows

ProBlogger

Poor content doesn’t get shared on social networks. Of course you can always trick people into sharing your articles with all these “Social Locker” plugins (those will hide the content from readers unless they click on social sharing buttons). 50 Awesomely Inspiring Tumblr Blogs for Photographers.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. Then, everyone will go to his/her respective home(s) on the web. You may have more than one. But PLURK?

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply John Exley August 26, 2009 at 2:16 am Tamar, I came across your article on Forbes.com tonight titled “Brand Building, Tweet by Tweet&# and really loved what you had to say about community building so I decided to check out your blog.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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).

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SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. I think we want to do well and build a good business.

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