Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. In every industry, there are existing conversations going on. It introduces your brand Is your company new? What motivates them?

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

Do you realize how valuable it is to monitor and track conversations online? Are you monitoring the trends related to conversations about your brand? Is all that social media activity paying off? Listening is just as important as sharing on social media Click To Tweet. The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. Bloggers often hold contests or group projects to encourage others to blog about certain topics. Don’t overlook mailing lists and groups. You can find niche specific social news sites and drive tons of traffic to your blog if you really work on it.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. Bloggers often hold contests or group projects to encourage others to blog about certain topics. Don’t overlook mailing lists and groups. You can find niche specific social news sites and drive tons of traffic to your blog if you really work on it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Then the comments come in, and a conversation takes place. Typically, a fair portion of the class involves group work and some interactive elements — we’ve had discussions, card games, Jeopardy, chart-making, a range of Montessori activities, videos, song-writing and much more. I see this seminar as a forum.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion.

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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. In fact, most of them had already left.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

I have NO PROBLEM with conversations happening offsite. I’ve learned to adapt by integrating those conversations on my blog wherever I can (as you can see, Richard Cunningham just posted on Louis’s site and you can read it here. You can also see FriendFeed posts below).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

On a few occasions, they also have served as focus groups providing us with valuable feedback on a number of topics. We agreed to forward the information on to this group of members, and asked for their permission to share their contact information with Royal Caribbean. This is Cruise Critic’s sole involvement in this program.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. Time will only tell.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Everything is multi: multi-screens, multi-channeled, multi-conversations, and multitasking. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

It looked like a great one, and my best intentions of attending were abruptly detoured in the chase for new biz. Anyway, I just got off the phone with a new client out of Canada, and we had nearly the same conversation that this post covers. Social Media 101 Explained by the Best Fishing Analogy EVER =-. Thanks Jason!

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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

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. Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

well……that just seems like a place for kids and even though Facebook seems to be replacing MySpace for youth conversations, it brings out the kid in me while accomplishing the networking part at the same time. In the business world, social networks help professionals share industry expertise and facilitate business networking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. Part of this, for him, revolves around being approachable and building up relationships privately via direct messages or on the Twitter stream.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream. Therefore, I suppose the nested conversations and time-line layout make complete sense. and social media sphere.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. Some communities are very open to marketers being there and contributing to the conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. And that’s the key differentiator of social media: we, the consumers, can have one loud voice, that companies and other people listen to.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) That might not apply to Facebook fan groups but the idea is similar. It’s an irritant.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 11, 2014

LinkedIn Groups – Your Secret Weapon For Sales Success [Infographic]. LinkedIn groups are by far the most powerful aspect of LinkedIn for your business. Larry is a partner and chief sales officer of Sales Empowerment Group. B2B Social Selling: Sales Megaphones or Conversation Drivers?

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Sprout Social

JULY 20, 2022

Companies use this enterprise social network to promote internal communication through direct messaging and group channels. How does it work with Sprout Social? Sprout’s pre-built integration with Slack helps social teams keep up with approval processes and task flows in real time. How does it work with Sprout Social?

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. You may find people who are surfing outside your social circle who might be potentially interested in your products. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. You never know who you might meet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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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 12, 2010

These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships. Digg is by far the largest; as a former “top user&# of the service , I built strong relationships with employees and users of the social news site. Interesting observation.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. 12 alternatives to Basecamp by Popwuping. Share this on Bebo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. Conversion expert. Rather recently, she told me that she had enough and was going to quit. Project manager.

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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 is the kind of content that spreads beyond the typical blog reader to an entirely different group of people.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

He was just making conversation, but I was concerned. At a recent client meeting, I asked a group of ten professionals if they were on LinkedIn. social networking. social media. social news. social networks. The day after doing this search, I was talking to a friend about an entirely unrelated matter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. I also added some new points in italics to clarify.] Social news is about reciprocal relationships.

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