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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Whatever your motivation, your blog needs traffic to achieve those goals, and to do that, you need great content. Get Your Blog Read and Followed When it comes to the internet, there’s one golden rule that stands head and shoulders above the others: content is king. It is vital to master writing great content on your blog.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. It doesn’t do us any good if the content being passed around is garbage. Funny thing to mention.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

(The Future Buzz): Adam Singer writes an excellent piece on the qualities that make up the most popular “power users&# of the social web — that is, those individuals whose content people want to consume always. What Makes People Share Content? Share This or Else! Sending products to bloggers helps too!)

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A Travelmole source, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “It is clear that RCCL’s Royal Champions initiative has created an uneven playing field, not only on the Cruise Critic bulletin boards, but, quite possibly, in regard to user reviews in their main content area.

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Blogging: Social Media is Not Only About Social Media Sites

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Does social media convert?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In short, you’ll need to install the Static FBML app, add a custom tab, and learn the language, which is very similar to HTML, to create content that is appealing to your customers and prospects. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) This is basic News Feed Optimization. Need some inspiration?

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