Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Every bad sale costs you five. Here’s some more food for thought: Every blog post or negative review costs you thousands of customers. Some will go the extra mile to share with their friends exactly why they’re moving on, too, so don’t make any missteps that will cost you business down the road.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

And since the cost of adding calls to action on a website and/or sending email messages is relatively low (email sends are arguably the least expensive weapons in your marketing arsenal), failing to do so is an almost unforgivable sin for any enterprising social marketer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Here’s what Sprint is thinking: you’re wasting our valuable customer service dollars and our errors are costing us too much money, so we’ll drop you and we’ll save big. But boy, that’s really convenient.

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Reputation Airlines Digg MySpace 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. So, it is inexpensive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

That’s gotta be more luck than skill no? Reply Tamar Weinberg March 4, 2010 at 3:22 pm Hi Isaacson, actually, I don’t think it’s just “luck.&# Hotels in NYC are costly.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

If we sell out we might make money but the cost is way to high. I hope that this will change over time, but I still can’t smell my delicious children or my lovely husband. Moral of the story: We need to be true to what we know to be right. They have seen too many patients come to their offices with the same injury.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Twitter, Customer Service, and Good Brand Management (Conversation Agent): Valeria Maltoni writes a great primer to why Twitter is important for customer service, but then goes a step further and tells you what tools you can use to monitor your brand (and some that cost money and let you respond). Yes, patience is a big one!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ultimately, there will be overhead “costs,&# such as monitoring your evangelists’ representation of your brand. Reply Yuval Kaplan August 27, 2009 at 12:25 am I think that the bottom line is that marketing via social networks is not as free as it seems. What do you have to lose?

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I ran the social news site Reddit through the tool as an example and I’m told that around 55% of visitors are male (though I expect this to be a little lower than reality) and 24% of the audience are over 50 years old. Most Saved Delicious Links. Visual Inspection, Delicious & StumbleUpon). Top Site Posts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Somehow, individuals forget along the way that costs accrue when considering the venue, food, exhibit hall, and the staff required on hand to run the event smoothly. Chris puts it really nicely when he says, “But free is a choice, and it’s not your buyers who decide this, no matter what we like to think in social media kumbaya-ville.

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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. Doesn’t cost them much to assist others, and they reap many return benefits.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

There’s a cost to this, though. In both cases, you can build an app on your Facebook wall that will let you estimate your monthly renter’s/homeowner’s insurance costs or your mortgage. Let’s say you did something along the lines of what I do — social media consulting and strategy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

This includes everything from acquiring permits, to negotiating with shippers, to figuring costs out with any non-for-profit you may be working with. Also, a Community Manager might need to deal with the day-to-day sales process for a customer they’ve brought in.

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

On the other hand, my first ever interaction on AOL was with someone who was separated from my social network by only one degree. I was 12 at the time, it was 1993, and AOL cost $5.95/hour Social media was always social , just not with that funny name. Email is still email (but doesn’t cost $0.25

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The simple fact remains that Twitter is taking a pounding on traffic and spam, raking up more and more costs with no revenue model. I hate to start over building the network, though, especially since it’s very likely that Plurk will have the same scaling problems. Once Plurk starts building up traffic, it may have the same problem.

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Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

I was able to interview Dave, one of the brilliant minds behind the company and the game, and he has given some really great information about the viral marketing piece, including the costs and the execution. Tamar : How much (approximately) did the whole project cost? Dave : Well, it’s hard to say!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is Not Free When you were a kid, you probably wondered why road infrastructure projects cost in the billions or that nature preservation programs cost millions. Heck, the real question you probably had was “why does everything cost so much money?

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Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Does the fact that their costs come in the form of materials and mine in the form of time make theirs any more ‘real’? I explained multiple times that I did, in fact, donate coverage and advertising space to good causes but that I did not feel a large corporate-backed, co-branded initiative of this kind was truly not for profit.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Even though there is a cost for entry for some of the best resources, the solutions were highly worthwhile, I explained. Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. High costs don’t always translate to better quality.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

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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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

How to Write Your Social Media Plan in 8 Steps (Skyline Trade Show Tips): Need inspiration to get your social media plan in play? 5 Ways Companies are Using Social Media to Lower Costs (Mack Collier): Just what are the benefits of social media? These 8 steps are clear-cut and will guide you through the process.

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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

My tech-friends seem to be mostly agnostic liberals, and my views – though wonderful once you hear them in detail – would cost me a solid fourth at least of my current followers. I have another account that is faith-based. And that’s a shame, you know? I’m not just a business person.

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Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How Much Money is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business : Aaron Wall discusses the cost of that #1 link backing up the data with some hard research. SEO Mastermind Aaron Wall Brings Bad News : In an interview with Entrepreneur magazine, Aaron Wall talks about all things SEO. Not excess. Maybe you should.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Tagging individuals in unflattering pictures that may end up costing your friends their jobs. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships.

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Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

The first image is free, but each gift thereafter costs $1. With marketing comes another way Facebook can benefit itself and society: virtual gifts. Last week, Facebook rolled out image gifts that users can give to a special someone.

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Facebook Web 2.0 MySpace API 111

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. Andy has submitted nearly 15,000 stories to Digg and over 4200 of his submissions have hit the front page of the impossible-to-game social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

As an individual, perhaps a company or an entrepreneur who is looking to spread the word about a new product launch, you have the potential to keep marketing costs down by reaching out to bloggers and having them talk about your product. As a blogger, you have the potential to reach a tremendous audience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The SEO Angle If you’re a brand new student in the school of thought of SEO, after you’ve learned about improving your web presence via search engines, there are countless opportunities to prove to yourself that you know what you’re doing. For you, this means practice and true application of acquired skill.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Deleting Wall Posts – I did consider this deleting all the wall posts – and then individually deleting each one as I make a new one to use it as an “away message&# style of functionality…but that would literally take several hours with all the posts going back to 2005 or whenever it started.

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