Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

That was somewhat addressed in last week’s chat with a goal to have “town hall&# meetings and forums where Digg staff can interact with the users to make the experience more pleasurable. This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us We have all engaged in debates over the past few years about social media. If so, how?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. Did I post on forums? Did I promote by IM?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. Maybe it’s on a forum. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! And you need to be consistently monitoring the space.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

That’s why you need to paint a picture that’s more meaningful and encompasses what “social media&# as a label really is. Some of us have been thrust into social media simply because the online landscape showed potential for online conversations. These are conversations, not broadcasts. Be responsive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So if you’re spending $200 a day on your Social Media campaign, and let’s say your product is $100 worth per item, let’s say you’re bringing 100 people to the website, and your Google Analytics shows a 15% conversion rate to a warm lead, and a 15% conversion rate of warm leads to paying clients purchasing one item.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Working on campaigns for several clients and its been a slow haul, especially for a new brand. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. Conversation Agent): How do you want to use Twitter? It’s really not that hard!

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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. get Twitter mentions of your brand via RSS or email) or use a service like Backtype (backtype.com) to see comments across blogs and other social media sites (such as FriendFeed).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Other industry connections that have simply flourished since the very “early days&# of social media. I may have met these individuals by chance (long-standing relationship) or through the blogosphere or forums. The chart above illustrates the breakdown of the “social media&# friends.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Conversion expert. And read this post from Mat with some good suggestions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Bloggers like Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent , who don’t have a team of bloggers at arm’s length, offer content on a very regular basis (in Valeria’s case, 6 days a week). This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

You can’t only write comments on forums. 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. Social media marketing, too, is now a reality for many.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

I explicitly had this conversation with this guy this morning… and I got the sense that he was overly generous. It usually ends the conversation right there. I asked them, even if they chose not to proceed to bring me in, to give me a 1 line recommendation about the value of our conversation that I could use.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Start conversing with the people you want to have follow you, and do it consistently. I had it for my NY METS buddies as we tend to have conversations that are lengthy which interferes with my twitter stream for biz but it was still me. You only need to use it when you want to have lengthier conversations. I was still me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

That’s to say that if you use a public forum to insult, attack, or demean others on your personal time, you may find that impacting your company by association. If you blog or post comments, you should make sure it adheres to your company’s social media policy. It is nice to see people having an honest conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&#

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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?&# How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? : Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

In an effort to make Facebook data more public, Community Pages let people share ideas, thoughts, and their interests in a fully open forum. People simply *won’t* do it because they do not want to lose their friends in the conversion process when their friends elect not to Like the entity in two places (or at all anymore!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Thanks Reply Barry Schwartz December 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm Tamar, A few comments… (1) I believe you are wrong on the point about everyone being a social media expert but not the same with SEO. I see it in forums and on blogs. Most say they care most about conversions. 2) SEO is far from immediate. and michael is right.

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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. but it’s because they want to encourage the ensuing conversation.

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