Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

But at what cost? I once calculated time spent blogging vs. number of RSS subscribers. I look at it a little differently. Sure, you can get a ton of followers by doing all the right things ( Mack Collier has a great post here about how he got to 20,000 followers ). link] jaybaer Seriously, you are missing the boat on the Double Down.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. When you show them the costs, they begin to understand it’s marketing, but then they wonder why pay you to do it when a 14-year old in their parent’s basement can do it? Social Media is Inexpensive False. Social Media is Fast False.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

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). Ultimately, there will be overhead “costs,&# such as monitoring your evangelists’ representation of your brand. What do you have to lose?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Total cost of this incredibly helpful marketing effort is very low, and Mike even offsets that by including ads from sponsors! link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success. It’s a Bird.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. link] [link] Bob Johnson 5 predictions of the end of email, 2004 to 2010 (RSS to FB): Why it isn't happening soon at [link] [link] Allison B.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

link] [link] Jen Grant You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] by @jaybaer (who in my opinion is worth 10x more than the cost here #justsayin) [link] Skip Bensley RT @jaybaer: Wow. RT @jaybaer: You’re Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] (best Webinar series of the year) [link] Sarah Hartshorn You’re Invited to the Socialpalooza.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class. The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class.

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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. High costs don’t always translate to better quality. Finally, I haven’t tried it yet, but Viralheat sounds promising , especially for the cost.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A really nice layout doesn’t have to cost a lot, but shows you’re more than a social media dabbler. Build RSS outposts on Facebook. Add Flog Blog, and several other RSS tools. There are 60+ rss readers in my blog, I write daily with at least 1 article. But most people who want to develop a personal brand do.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. In the case of this blog, you'll see the top level “like&# in the top right corner by the RSS icon. subscribe to my RSS feed. Build a website.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. In the case of this blog, you'll see the top level “like&# in the top right corner by the RSS icon. subscribe to my RSS feed. Build a website.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

35 Guaranteed Ways to Increase Your RSS Subscribers (Newest on the Net): Newcomer Fred Peters talks about how he increases his RSS subscriber count. Reply Daltonsbriefs December 26, 2007 at 11:02 am Thanks, that will cost me hours of trying to keep up. That said, submit your blog to many directories to get maximum visibility.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Simply give a person a 3 or 4 sentence email explaining what it is & does why it was created how it can benefit them and then…if it is something where incremental access costs next to nothing (like a SAAS offering) then give them a free account to check it out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Tagging individuals in unflattering pictures that may end up costing your friends their jobs. Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Especially agreed with “Streaming only your blogs RSS feed on Twitter.&# Private matters should be handled privately: via email or even in Facebook private messages.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The only disappointing fact is that still other companies are not taking note - they are still outsourcing, purely for cost reasons. Lijit Search. But it has meant they are trying to ger closer to their clients which is good. Why don’t companies get it, that without customers they don’t have a business? chrisbrogan.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Which is why I always say that after a period of community development, there should be initiatives to gather RSS registrations and email subscriptions at your home site. I might actually hire a VA to do it for me…but that’s going to cost a pretty penny. Expect and plan for your account to be deleted at any time.

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