Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Is your company’s social media strategy really working? Having a company presence in social media is all well and good but it isn’t enough. Your company doesn’t have a personality. Use tools designed for it, and you don’t risk your company’s image too much in the process.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If it was a Comcast product, you’d get a near immediate response from Frank Eliason , the company’s Director of Digital Care. It can instill faith that your customers have in your company. It can make all the difference in nurturing a positive perception of your company. Empower them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2011

Given my observations, both in the “canned response&# department and the company’s engagement with other customers and prospects, they’ve got it all wrong. In very rare occasions does this company make the compelling argument to promote the brand. What’s your social media policy?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 27, 2012

The articles either end there or conclude with a self-congratulatory remark by a company rep. These stories – and the campaigns and companies they showcase – are missing an important element: the human element. Now, it’s more than just at award time when companies when should express gratitude – although I’ll speak about that later.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2012

After taking the social media plunge, companies quickly discover that it is vastly more complicated and time-consuming than they thought. But companies must avoid a panicky response, because hiring a social media marketing (SMM) partner requires careful study. This is a guest post by Brad Shorr. The normal response is, HELP!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? As small companies with limited budgets, nonprofits may feel that they are unable to dive into the wide world of social media. The big catch: Epic Change is not a large company at all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 8, 2015

As a customer, I have been so heavily inconvenienced by so many companies in the service realm, indicating a void that so desperately needs to be filled. I mean, don’t you feel great when a company does right by you? Do you feel the same way when a company markets something well to millions of people? Then show it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

While smaller companies will struggle to maintain the level of content creation that large corporations with extensive marketing budgets can, they are at no significant disadvantage when it comes to using social media for community building and customer service. Social marketing is conversational marketing in large part.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 19, 2012

They feel a stronger connection with your company, increasing the chance that they’ll stay customers for a long time. The company works with small business internationally to keep online retailers running efficiently while offering them high-value marketing tools. Medium to enterprise companies may require more powerful solutions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Update your profile every few months to reflect changes in what you’re doing and how you’re doing it – especially if you’re changing roles within the same company or moving to another company. LinkedIn can be one of the best places to find individuals or companies interested in investing in your own efforts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Companies were more or less in control of when and how they targeted consumers and tasks involving branding tended to be mostly contained in-house. Done correctly, good branding in today’s digital age can boost your company more than ever before, but the key is consistency otherwise it may do more harm than good.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Fast forward to 2010, and every business owner knows that they absolutely need a website because this is the window into their company that most customers and clients will see before any initial contact is made. In my professional opinion, most companies, industries and organizations can benefit from a Facebook page. Real Estate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Because social media is largely personality-driven, a savvy entrepreneur can level the playing field against much larger competitors and establish his company as a widely recognized, credible source. Here are 20 social media marketing errors that send people running, that make them tune you and your company out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Just because you’ve heard that other companies are doing it doesn’t mean that social media will magically work for you. It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. It introduces your brand Is your company new? What are your goals? This builds stronger relationships over time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When we’re out speaking to companies or at conferences about these Pioneers, our talks are anchored on what made these stories the most compelling, and what advice they have for the next generation. His story is a blueprint for any aspiring pioneers seeking their fortune online.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 13, 2012

Companies always strive for ways to create brand awareness. As everyone knows, the big companies will always have an advantage in this field due to their surplus of money which forces the smaller companies to think more creatively. Timberland is one of the best examples of a company that is socially responsible.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. This may be nothing more than a refresher course in the Captain Obvious department but even the savviest of companies is still missing the boat. A lot of big companies I try to engage with don’t want to talk back.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Only when the landscaping company mowed down the guy’s vegetable garden and did not rectify the situation seven weeks later did the guy decide to make a public spectacle of the situation. Sure, there are probably a few things you can point out that should work in the company’s favor. How many people really want that?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 17, 2012

I once worked for a company that had been kicked off eBay and Amazon for bad customer service (not my fault, honest!). In the old days before the Internet, angry consumers had little recourse if they were mistreated by a company. These days, one bad customer experience is all it takes to destroy your company’s good reputation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Even if you do not know much about it yourself, check for these qualities and these answers: At the very least, someone hoping to get a job with your company should have a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn account. Understanding of SEO and Analytics —Getting your company online is no doubt crucial to the success of a business.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 31, 2011

All four of them were relatively larger companies and were interested in talking to us about reselling our product or integrating it with theirs. We did get many large companies that had heard of our name because of seeing the press release. Mukund Mohan is the CEO of Jivity, a social commerce and brand merchandising company.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2011

I knew that as a community manager myself, I had to ask her about her own experiences with social media within a company that seemed to have been an early adopter of sorts in the social media community management realm. Even though it’s a big company, everyone seems to have ownership over specific areas. I use Google Alerts for this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

What the Updates Mean for Your Company. Each Panda update meant something different for each company. Consider a few of the ways your company can follow the new Panda guidelines: Create new and original content. This will affect businesses in the coming weeks, so many spend their time now, in 2011, trying to get ready.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

And while I am not a consultant with the company, we have a partnership agreement that makes them a preferred vendor for Social Media Explorer and our companion learning site, Exploring Social Media. If a company has a passion for their products and team members, that should be allowed to be organically expressed on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

of the company’s revenue could be attributed to social. The client saw a 7% increase in online sales and conversions using AddShoppers technology, and through AddShoppers technology, more than 30,000 emails were added to the company’s database. A recent case study with a large home decor client determined that 15.2%

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And when you place a number like this in all of your advertisements, business materials, marketing materials, and promotional items it is going the extra mile – doing the leg-work of identifying your company and maintaining a consistent image in your market. So, ask yourself these questions: Do I know how each incoming lead found my company?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 17, 2012

If not, there are video production companies who can do it for you and not necessarily at a killer expense. Find a handful of production companies and compare their prices, what they are offering, and ultimately, their attitude; you want to work with the team that shows almost as much enthusiasm as you for your project.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Now known as the “social media hotel&# of NYC, Roger Smith is attracting a really incredible bunch of people who have raved about the ambiance and the company’s approachability online. To me, it seems most companys focus on monopolies and then forced purchase of ad-ons without which the product wont work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Using social media as a tool to position yourself or company as an expert is how you are going to gain your followers’ trust. Tweet industry news as well as your company’s current events. If you tweet for your company or any public figure, let your followers know there is more than one person running the account.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 25, 2013

For example, say that you’re a company that sells affordable luxury vacation packages. In December, that all changed when Facebook named my company, Chango, as a preferred partner in FBX, and we brought Search Retargeting to Facebook. And, as with SEM, marketers can purchase the ads as efficiently as possible through real-time bidding.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 8, 2012

More often than not, you’re working as part of a team – whether it’s a project team or your company as a whole – and teams should always work together. What position were you hoping to attain when you started with the company? What drew you to your current job?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

For business promotion with social media, the growth and maturity stages would be ideal for business promotion with social media, and it could be argued that it is better for companies to adopt earlier in the introduction phase for enhanced visibility and overall socially savviness. How can social media benefit your business?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 1, 2011

When social media started getting popular with businesses, there was a lot of excitement from consumers because they could now interact with companies on a more personal level rather than dealing with companies just like another transaction.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 13, 2010

George, a representative of a UK social media agency, emailed me last month to tell me to check out his company’s blog. You need to work to see results. Even experts do not always understand this critical fact. He also made the request that I link to his site with “social media agency [companyname]&# if I ever like what I see.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 15, 2012

The way content is shared today changes online marketing, putting content to the forefront of what users, companies, brands and products are about. This is a guest post by Joel Harrison. Google+ has just won the People’s Choice award for social media at The Webby Awards presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

It’s incredibly easy for someone to put up a web page and show how much they like or dislike a company. You’ll get exposure to case studies of companies that do this well and review cases of companies where listening severe impacted the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. That’s why social media is important.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2012

When my company, Small Business Trends, LLC, first purchased BizSugar in the summer of 2009, the best way I could describe it was as a miniature version of Digg, except that BizSugar focused soley on sharing information geared toward small and mid-sized businesses. This is a guest post by Anita Campbell. This is still true.

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