Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Before the rise of MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr, the “original” social media was created in the unglamorous yet impactful world of discussion boards and forums. Other discussion boards and forums were built and managed by brands, as a special place for enthusiasts to gather and interact.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Over the past couple years, one of the most common questions from business owners has been, “Do I need to be on Facebook and/or Twitter?&# On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. To Facebook or Not to Facebook?

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

There’s no perfect solution for tracking all activity for a campaign but you can do it based on a combination of a number of factors, for example: Hashtag – Hashtags will not be used for all mentions and for all platforms but it’s a great way of isolating traffic. Emerging Trends. What about predicting what’s to come?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. If you’re only on the forum to tell other people to visit your website or to use your product, you won’t go far.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. Friendster made it easy for not-so-genuine people to become friends with real people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social media marketing, SEO, and forum marketing are the great ways to expand your market coverage. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. Lately, I’ve been creating graphics with screenshots to point out specific examples.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2011

Testimonials, for example, are a common form of social proof. Mashable is all about social media and you see items like the “most shared this week&# and the number of Facebook “likes&# featuring prominently. The activity in the comments and the forums is really quite wonderful. Let me explain. Let your story show.

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Tumblr Sites News Loyalty 43

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Even a recent thread on Cre8asite Forums discussed this, kicking off by someone stating they find social media very intimidating. To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

In web hosting, there are hundreds of different forums and sites. For example: the apache server, since its code is open any attacker can analyze it, search for loopholes and devise an attack. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Get acquainted with them and with their customers.

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Social Media Digg Brands Marketing 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. I have seen these programs work but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth all the effort considering the possible fall-out, as seen in your example.

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Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

SocMed Sean

APRIL 5, 2012

Every time I hear of companies blocking Blogging Sites, Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Media sites, it makes me wonder what curmudgeon or poorly informed leader is calling the shots and what experience drove them to make the decision. Just look at Zappos as an example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

And if this post isn’t proof enough for you, check out Steven’s post relating to the quality of forum traffic , which often have even tighter knit communities than Sphinn. Steven reports that the average user from one niche forum stays for more than 7 and 1/2 minutes! Others want massive brand exposure.

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Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Learn the difference between a social media policy and social media guidelines and check out some examples from other brands. For example, Hootsuite Amplify is a great way to find vetted content to share and enhance your personal or corporate brand. That may be a specific person, a forum or slack channel, or an email address.

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Guidelines Social Media Policies How To 143

ProBlogger

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The plug-in can publish nicely formatted messages to your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogger, LiveJournal, Delicious, Diigo, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Plurk, VKontakte, WordPress, and Tumblr accounts. Search for other social networks or forums related to your niche. Share your Competitions with other Comp Aggregators.

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Facebook – 2.23 Facebook is the biggest social media site around, with more than two billion people using it every month. It’s easy to get started on Facebook because almost all content format works great on Facebook — text, images, videos , live videos , and Stories. Tumblr – 642 million MUVs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook. You’re likely not alone.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 29, 2016

This may be a problem with measurement, or with setting the wrong objectives for social media marketing (it’s far more effective for customer service and driving traffic to top-of-the-funnel content than to direct purchase, for example). They are also essential on Tumblr but there they can contain spaces.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You can find out what your target market wants and needs (for both content and product creation) through surveys, demographic research, forums, and Q&A platforms such as LinkedIn Answers and Quora. Some examples of good CTAs could be: “Did you like this post? Comment on related blogs and forums. Tell stories.

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Tips Content Press Release Marketing 98

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So you tweet and facebook for a living! So I challenged myself to create a list of 10 responsibilities of the Community Manager that extend beyond the realm of Facebook and Twitter (and yes, even blogging). Your sales people are on Facebook half the day, and your receptionist tweets way too much during work. Ever wonder why?

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

If you’re just doing it for fun or personal reasons, then maybe consider WordPress.com , Tumblr , or Blogger in that order. Forums – If you participate on forums and the forums allow signatures, add a link to your blog in your signature. Don’t spam blogs or forums just to get links.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Thought I was going to say “Facebook?&# Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! Your target market might be hiding in a niche forum somewhere out there. People love the prospect of submitting to Digg, for example, and some immediately submit the spammiest articles to the service.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Take MySpace for example, they rank their blog postings daily like a billboard chart. Did I post on forums? Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Digg Sites News API 100

Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

It comes before I embark on a huge Facebook series which I promise will be worth the premium price I was originally planning to sell the information for. I realised that before I talk about how to utilise Facebook to grow a huge audience and make money, you have to be confident in the website you’re going to promote.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 21, 2011

While WordPress.com, Blogger, Tumblr, and other platforms are great, there is nothing like having full control of the design and functionality – something you will only get if you are running WordPress from your own domain. Have the best customer support options (do you prefer text chat, 24 hour phone support, or forums).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. How to Make Social Media Work for Non-Consumer Brands (Mashable): This is a good B2B social media article which is chock full of examples. David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums. Mommyblogs are a great example of thriving personal blogs; they take you behind the scenes into the life as a parent.

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

You can also post to Tumblr. It converts Google+ into a social media management tool”) and Agorapulse , a social media management tool that integrates with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For example, to help schedule your posts, he recommends WordPress JetPack Publicize , CoSchedule and SMQueue. More than 60% of U.S.

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ProBlogger

JULY 22, 2014

The combination of SEO and social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest can be overwhelming for big as well as small business marketers. Facebook is now over 1 billion users. Source: Open Forum. Source: comScore. Google sites handle about 100 billion searches each month.

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Engineering Social Media Foursquare StumbleUpon 55

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. A few weeks ago, another person connected with me on Facebook who was referred to me by a social media buddy I never actually met.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. Yup, you can’t just chat with people on Twitter and broadcast on Facebook. You can’t only write comments on forums. Social Media Alone Doesn’t Cut It Social media marketing alone is not enough. There’s a lot more to marketing than just being social.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As an example, if you’re a business who predominantly focuses on IT infrastructure solutions but recently was involved in a tremendous Thanksgiving initiative through your local food bank, you certainly are within your right (and should) tell people about it. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook.

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Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Razor Social

DECEMBER 21, 2016

An example of zap can be – When I receive a new email (the trigger) in Gmail, send me an SMS message (the action). For example, automatically send a tweet based on a trigger, and then automatically store that tweet in a Word document. It also allows you to share links via Buffer, Facebook, Twitter and Email. AdEspresso.

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Tools BuzzStream Marketing Template 40

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Facebook The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook (Inside Facebook): Justin Smith shows how Facebook includes a variety of channels that spread the word in a very in-depth blog post. Facebook Ads: Will They Work for You? Rae explains all.

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Buffer Social

MARCH 15, 2018

For example, some are standalone monitoring tools while others have it as a feature within a social media management tool. Description: Buffer Reply organizes your Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram engagement into neatly-threaded conversations in one team inbox. Platforms supported: Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

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Social Media Tools Tweetdeck Price 110

ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Squarespace has a lovely, clean look, and Tumblr is easy to use, for example. Would your readers be in Facebook groups or in online forums? Platform: It’s no longer a fight to the death between WordPress and Blogger, there are plenty of other options in the mix these days too. What is their demographic?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook Hopefully, if you’re participating in social media marketing, you’re using more than just the tools everyone else is using. However, you need to articulate to your client or marketing teams that social media is not just about participating on Twitter and Facebook.

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