Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB. vBulletin is another powerful option with a small upfront cost. Once you have the ball rolling, you’ll be well on your way to cutting support costs and building greater brand loyalty. Medium to enterprise companies may require more powerful solutions.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reduce overall costs. Additional recruitment costs. Powerhouse networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote specific trials to targeted demographics while significantly lowering the cost per patient. 2) Reduce the Cost Per Patient. Drive more pre-qualified patient referrals. Extended study periods.

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Is SMS Marketing Still a Viable Strategy?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Marketers are being forced to find ever more cost effective ways of engaging with users. Costing as little as $0.05 (2.5p) per message, there are few other methods than provide such a strong ROI. In terms of rate of response, the simple SMS dominates the market. A few statistics…. Implementation.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Product Life Cycle (PLC) refers to the life of a product in the market with respect to business/commercial costs and sales measurements and a social media life cycle goes through similar phases as well.

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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

1: Opportunity Cost – Every time you spend a minute on social media is one minute you potentially lost revenue. This inherent cost needs to be included in any equations you make when allocating resources. The good thing about social media is that the opportunity cost tends to mostly be time.

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How to Create a Kickass Product Without Touching the Dev Cycle

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let’s say the cost of your product is just a few bucks. If that ad makes much of an impression, I may eventually ask my friend about the product, but I probably won’t buy unless I get some sort of endorsement from people I know — especially if the product or service is costly. I consider myself a former marketer.

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Facebook Fans: Are They Worth the Excitement?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The cost of 1000 impressions is $5 (according to Vitrue) so the cost of 60 million impressions is $300,000 (60 million x 5/1000=300,000). Per year, this calculated the number $3.6 million (300,000 x 12=3.6 million).

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