Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. Do you mean conversions? It’s why the future looks exciting thanks to movies, and why we all feel great when discovering that through the story of man and animal, love is never truly forgotten. It also depends on goals.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Ignore Social Media Checklists or ‘Top’ Lists It’s nice to be featured in press both online and off, but allowing that to influence your ego or strategy is just silly. There are socially “accepted&# standards, practices and norms in SM; after reading so many “how to Twitter&# posts I wrote my own.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old. Be responsive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, if you know them and can actually have lengthy conversations with the person day after day, that obviously means your relationship has made it to the next level.) Truth be told, perhaps they do. However, there are still boundaries that should never be crossed, no matter how approachable someone seems. (Of » ????? ?????

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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. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. Worse, many don’t really understand what to do once they start. It’s not always about numbers and it’s not about sporadic participation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Unfortunately for Digg, the savviest users of the bunch have also been the most vocal about Digg thus far (save for the few blogs that cover everything web 2.0 This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

They’re designed to be chatty – as if you were having a conversation with a friend. In the long run, you can achieve phenomenal readership and conversion. That will not only hurt the conversion but also gaming the search engine which will not survive in the long term SEO game.

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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.&# Targeting an audience of social media heavyweights that frequently visit New York City is a really useful marketing strategy. It’s pretty specific.

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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

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

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. I am just working on a social media strategy for my thesis in a German company. 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

MARCH 12, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media , Viral Marketing > When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? the viral marketing infiltration. Sad, actually.

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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. It’s really not that hard! It just requires a small shift in mindset.

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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

JULY 8, 2008

To succeed, they need to do the following well: Data analysis Provides holistic strategies to clients Training, presenting, and research Relationship-building and networking Outreach to online users and bloggers A social media marketer’s job never ends. They usually work 70 hour weeks and need to be extremely flexible.

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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. You market, by not marketing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. Thankfully, you don’t have to go at social media marketing alone. Engagement in a process called brand evangelism is one beneficial strategy to get your brand known and to help spread your message.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

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.) You should still consider your blog or website as a viable way to build community and/or to drive sales and conversions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Their monetization strategy What they have in common Their Blog Age I will be using when they started writing blog posts to calculate their blog age which can be found in their blog archives. Anyway, thanks both of you, for your thoughtful conversation on the issue. Their domain name Their post type – length, frequency and value.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site. It helps build loyalty, generate conversations, and it also gets you more followers if you do it right. Do I have social media integration on my business blog? Do your updates request for conversations?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

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. It’s lofty to consider social media as your only marketing aim. You can’t only write comments on forums.

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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

With regards to Search Conference, I refer to Search Marketing Expo, PubCon, and Search Engine Strategies, but I also met a few people at Affiliate Summit. These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Once you fire up your social media strategy, it doesn’t travel as fast as that silver bullet either. Social media is a lengthy, tedious process. Most of social media relates to relationship building, which is a time-consuming process. It is nice to see people having an honest conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Link Building : Part of a search engine marketing strategy includes the process of building relevant links to your website. Pay Per Click Marketing : PPC is another search engine marketing strategy that utilizes contextual advertising; based on a search query or the content of a web page, ads will appear.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

This strategy of trying multiple accounts won’t work for everyone. Let new prospects find you organically based on your messages and reap the rewards. Start conversing with the people you want to have follow you, and do it consistently. You only need to use it when you want to have lengthier conversations.

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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). That means the conversations we have when we do get together can be much more productive. Who are your favorite bloggers and why?

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you had any doubt, just go on over to their stats page and see for yourself why it is something you want as part of your marketing strategy. I Need Social Media Advice… August 5, 2010 at 3:26 pm 100?????????? | ????? As of the time of this writing, over 10 million users become fans of Fan Pages every day.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Moreover, the person who contacted me had an email pointing back to their PR company’s website on which they described their overarching re-branding strategy for the juice subsidiary in question. In fact, this entire parallel was actually mentioned to me in passing by someone who was aware of the conversation that was happening there.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Here’s how this works : In the Internet Marketing Best Posts “series,&# I take posts that are typically timeless — they’re not confined to a specific event or news occurrence — they’re valuable for the long haul in terms of Internet Marketing and creative strategy. What is the ROI for Social Media?

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

|Dan is not always able to tweet b/c of responsibilities or out on missions…but here are a couple more of my favorite tweets from Dan sent on 5/21 @AdScientist : ‘What is beautiful about social media are the relationships that can be built/started, conversations shared.’ Andreas Ramos – @Andreas_Ramos.

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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. Sadly, that same strategy was passed onto the client’s Twitter feed as well; with the exception of a single @ in a full month (that was a response to a question), the entire Twitter account was fully automated.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2009

You need to determine what kind of strategy you’ll implement. If we’re considering link building, a more general search engine marketing strategy, we might as well combine SEO and social, since that’s a way to get killer results. Most say they care most about conversions. You need clients.

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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. Unless top-down social business strategy totally stinks, yes.

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