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

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. Sometimes I see your postings first in my RSS reader, sometimes in Buzz. You need to consistently work at building relationships and not let them be. 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. Let me port my RSS feed to it and be done with it!&#

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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 23, 2008

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. Blogs do just that.

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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

APRIL 14, 2010

Your best bet is to consider an integrated marketing plan that consists of social media and other marketing tactics, because the act of just being nice to people online won’t bring you conversions. People Want More If the chart above is any indication, it’s without question that social media has grown by leaps and bounds.

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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. what action do we take. Project manager.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. I also added some new points in italics to clarify.] and having a real conversation first.

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Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Get the conversation started now! Mary Killelea Reply Tim Ware December 11, 2009 at 4:21 pm I’m sure the news that Facebook will be reducing the application tab width from 760px to 520px is going to affect this conversation. Reply Dee Reinhardt March 24, 2010 at 4:12 pm Do I use a FBML page to have my RSS/Blog feed?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. not via an RSS reader). 26 Comments.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media Will Change Your Business : This is an update to an old article from BusinessWeek on how blogs have changed your business. Not anymore — it’s about social media (which typically encompasses blogs too). How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? : You can learn a thing or two from it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Essentially, the actual user’s Twitter account became a broadcast medium but not a conversational one. I was reading tweets from a sea of twitterfeeds , which if you’re unaware, are totally automated posts that come from processing RSS feeds. Some publications totally can get away with merely feeding their website via RSS.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Louis Gray Louis Gray is a prominent technology blogger and Managing Director of New Media at Paladin Advisors Group. He also founded Search Engine Watch.

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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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