Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Since he was reasonably happy with the service provider, he referred it to his friend. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. I totally agree that repurposing content across social networking platforms is a necessity, and that saying what you mean and meaning what you say across every channel is very important.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Taxi Mike is Here to Help During my recent vacation in Canada, I stumbled upon a fantastic example of marketing via helpfulness, from Taxi Mike in Banff, Alberta. It’s Coffee In another example of Canadian excellence in creating marketing success through helpfulness, a Starbucks in Richmond, B.C. It’s a Bird.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. And great example about the eyeglasses.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). Neighbor typically refers to those living nearby but may also be affiliated through religious organizations. And yes, IRC does refer to Internet Relay Chat.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? I think that where we are will continue to evolve, but we’re seeing that face-to-face connections have a role in social media marketing as well. You need to keep your current customers happy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral).

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

You should know if first-time visitors are disproportionately likely to visit your Ebook page, for example. Example: Subscribe to our RSS Feed cos next weeks post will be just like this one – but TWICE as awesome. And many of us in the social media space are guilty of that particular sin. You see where I'm going here.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Improve and Expand Now that your content is posted to your various social outposts, invite your current customers to make it better. Send it out to existing customers via email, so they can refer fence-sitters to it. Maybe you guys have other examples where that is not so. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. an audience.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

In the past few months, I’ve dealt with companies who are unfortunate victims of bad links in Google, but those links refer to incidents that are years old (and are even resolved). Reply petnos May 10, 2008 at 3:32 pm This is a good example for people will face the situation you were in. They will act on a good way i think.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

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. For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. SEO and social media are two entirely different things. People want everything and they want it now.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

You have to commit to social media for the long haul to see the benefits. jaybaer wants to know Do You Believe? At present we're seeing people dabble without a strong PR / Communications strategy behind them. You also know how to measure your ROI effectively. Good luck converting the masses !

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

I painstakingly go through these resources with the hopes that these posts will serve as references for you in years to come. The article has examples of how social media worked too. Laser (Web Strategist): There are two (of many) approaches you can take in your social media strategy. Is Social Media Overrated?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Let’s look at a few examples of companies that have done this successfully: Yelp’s Elite Squad: Yelp operates a social networking, user review, and local search website for members to post reviews and get user feedback on local businesses and restaurants. Are Gardening Forums social media?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

link] fore example uses cliques to collectively create a more selective audience to hold a dialogue with. In the article I linked to, it says that Plurk was discovered by Inquisitr , which is why I referred to it. That also helps a little with avoiding business contacts being subjected to your messy weekend photos! But PLURK?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I looked at Meltwater Buzz a couple of months back and thought it offered a better platform than Radian6 (which is a good option in itself and often used as the industry example). What I mean is that California for example always shows up with the most posts. Historical data seemed more robust as well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Mommyblogs are a great example of thriving personal blogs; they take you behind the scenes into the life as a parent. Darren suggests having a memorable design, trying your hand at being a character (e.g.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

For example, they use a green background on Twitter, black background on their YouTube channels and maybe red on their Facebook fan page landing tabs. You can promote your social media profiles by integrating offline media. For example, I’ll put “I tweet. Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I was using you as a great example of a blog with focus and intent during my panel discussion, and this comment from you showed up on my phone at the exact same time. I was using you as a great example of a blog with focus and intent during my panel discussion, and this comment from you showed up on my phone at the exact same time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&#

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In my social media consulting, I often emphasize with my clients the importance of using powerful, unexpected and unusual words and turns of phrase in headlines – to break through the content clutter. This is very helpful for my future reference. This appears to have worked in the case of #2, #4, #6, #11, #14, #17, #19, #23.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I – and my generation-mates – belong online using twitter and connecting with people through social networking? Clara (my new young and very helpful friend)- We are a perfect example of how people, with very different experiences, can connect virtually and learn from one another. Do I belong in the blogosphere?

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I – and my generation-mates – belong online using twitter and connecting with people through social networking? Clara (my new young and very helpful friend)- We are a perfect example of how people, with very different experiences, can connect virtually and learn from one another. Do I belong in the blogosphere?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. These new talents and voices of social networking would often speak for free affecting market integrity. ’ How right he was! I have not done it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Bloggers might be well served to understand that if I approach someone in the professional mainstream media with a story idea, there is no way that any self-respecting reporter would ever respond by trying to refer me to the advertising sales rep. There is supposed to be a wall between the two. That’s a really brilliant point, Barb.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this? Great post.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

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. Social Media Marketing : In social media marketing, you are tasked with leveraging the social space through its media to market your products. “What are good companies to target?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

The big language barrier still exists, for example, when you refer to Java (“not coffee, not the island, but the programming language!&# ) Semantic search : webmasters may not spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to describe what things mean since there’s no motivation for them to do so. Everyone laughs.]

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

Folks, you simply must read the “Tale of Amy B&# that Chuck references above for the perfect example of how NOT to handle negativity online. I'm not saying I'd provide him with free pizza for life and a carton of Lucky Strikes (Mad Men reference), but I wouldn't pee all over him either. Your point is dead-on.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

To learn FBML you’re going to want to check out Facebook’s documentation and reference on FBML tags. There is a large reference of these tags on their developer wiki. Keep in mind that the Static FBML application only supports a subset of what the full FBML reference indicates is available. My name is.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Sexy Bookmarks Plug-in My friend Michael Stelzner from Social Media Examiner (where I guest post monthly), turned me on to this excellent plug-in that improves upon the social sharing user interface. See an example at the bottom of this post (the little squares that animate when you put your cursor over them).

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