Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ultimately, there will be overhead “costs,&# such as monitoring your evangelists’ representation of your brand. Investing in a campaign that rewards your satisfied users to become your ambassadors is more cost effective than paying a sales agent with the added benefit that nobody likes a sales agent but we all love our friends.

Brands 139

Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon 139

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

The only substantial cost for you is time. The best part? Access to these social media communities is free. We’re seeing an incredible paradigm shift from a paid model to a virtually free model. How many of you would really want to ignore such a viable source of business that comes at such an affordable price?

Communities 170

Communities Marketing MySpace Yahoo 170

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If you don’t buy the extended warranty it costs you just to call and try to get help. Had many issues with my Apple Ipod and they seem to just have the attitude “You bought it, your headache.&# Look at their policy about servicing you from the get go. Never heard of that at any other company.

Apple 154

Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Your responsibility as a marketer is to understand that permission marketing might actually take work, but the other extreme is to choose an easy way out that will likely have a cost that may be hard (or impossible) to recover from. What do you choose?

Newsletter 144

Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

In collaboration with Chris and a few other team members, we pitched the idea to our leadership as a low-cost, low-resource opportunity to network, collaborate on some of the tough issues facing our team, learn from other members of the team, and have an opportunity to get involved with the rest of the team beyond their individual project teams.

Gov 2.0 85

Gov 2.0 Meeting Yammer Wiki 85

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.

Social Media 153

Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

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.

Smart Phone 218

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

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.

Reputation 100

Reputation Airlines Digg MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I was 12 at the time, it was 1993, and AOL cost $5.95/hour Whereas everything used to cost money (my highest AOL bill was $267.48 The cost: over $4k for a 386SX/25mhz with 170MB of hard drive space, 2MB RAM, a 2400 baud modem, and a 13″ monitor. Email is still email (but doesn’t cost $0.25

MySpace 101

MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Tagging individuals in unflattering pictures that may end up costing your friends their jobs. December 24, 2008 at 3:29 pm Rules Beget Rules = Social Media Principle #5 « An Bui, spelled An With 1 n December 27, 2008 at 1:23 am Living Under a Bridge - Final Wrap Up | SEMpdx Blog December 28, 2008 at 12:54 am » Netiquette 2.0:

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

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!

Marketing 103

Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project 103

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.

Hotels 245

Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

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 read this article about microblogging [link] , and although it has not made a fan out of me, it has opened my eyes to its wonders.

Twitter 205

Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

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? The answer, quite simply, comes down to the real cost of labor.

Social Media 268

Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

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. Free is beautiful, and costs are part of life.&# At the end of the day, contrary to seemingly popular belief, the hosts aren’t the only ones pocketing the money.

Products 267

Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

As previously stated, users in the social news sphere find what’s newsworthy (e.g.

Social Networking 101

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

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. Work With Web Developers to Update Your Site for Web 2.0 The difference is updating your website to Web 2.0. Once the web 2.0 Once the web 2.0

Communities 237

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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. In the screenshot above, control is shifted to everyone and empowers your community members.

Facebook 279

Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

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.

Blogger 177

Blogger Press Release Advertising Review 177

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Marketing Tactics (SEOmoz): Jane Copand, the Web 2.0 guru, shows how to leverage Web 2.0 25 Headline Formulas that Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0 PR Disasters Lurk in Web 2.0 Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 sites to market your brand and control your message.

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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!

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

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.

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. Doesn’t cost them much to assist others, and they reap many return benefits. I think as web 2.0

Social Media 163

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

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.

Influencer 278

Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

If we sell out we might make money but the cost is way to high. If we allow ourselves to continue without correcting the problem, sooner or later that internal conflict will undermine our efforts and we will be forced to compensate. Moral of the story: We need to be true to what we know to be right.

Reputation 125

Reputation Chemicals Issues Consultant 125

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. How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business : This recent post on Copyblogger quotes how many businesses has found success with the microblogging service. One key is defensible traffic.

SEO 162

SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

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.

SEO 178

SEO Social Media Marketing Digg 178

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I might actually hire a VA to do it for me…but that’s going to cost a pretty penny. Is there a easier way to “mass-delete&# ?

Facebook 277

Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277

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.

Blogger 103

Blogger Yahoo Buy Twitter 103