Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We hear a lot of information about how social media is a great marketing tool. A recent Merchant Confidence Survey shows that 35% of small businesses use and are optimized by SEO over the social media marketing. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and others is standing at 16%.

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Jason Yormark

JUNE 13, 2012

Ask Yahoo, MySpace or … , all major networks that ruled heavily at one time and all which fell from grace to other up and comers. I’ve felt a growing sense that Facebook might have already peaked and is currently beginning to slide. That being said, here are the 5 reasons I think Facebook is on the decline: 1.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Why Social Media Is Like Getting Stoned Why Social Media Is Like Getting Stoned by Tamar Weinberg on April 20, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Todd Mintz.

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MAY 18, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on May 18, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Beth Hrusch.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > Is Social Media Worth it for You? Is Social Media Worth it for You? One of the most common questions in social media is – “is it worth it?”.

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MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. However, without a successful plan and any adequate preparation, your social media efforts will fail. Don’t make your social media efforts half-assed. If you’re going to engage in social media, do it!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck. Some people think social media is just fun. What do you think about using social media for business? Make sure all your social media profiles are complete with the most relevant information.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

Execution: The Facebook Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on September 4, 2007 Share I’m getting a bit frustrated with the hundreds of posts that speak about individuals who claimed to invent Facebook before Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is like Classmates.com. Facebook is like Friendster. Facebook is like MySpace.

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Atom Thought

MAY 22, 2012

It happened with Google, Facebook, Flipkart, Craigslist, Slideshare, Dropbox ….the If that was not true, Yahoo, Microsoft, ebay, MySpace etc. Did anyone ever see a TV ad of Google or facebook or Amazon in their first 5 years? Did anyone ever see a TV ad of Google or facebook or Amazon in their first 5 years?

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Toyotas "Sienna Family" YouTube Campaign | Main | Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500 » February 19, 2010 5 Facebook Stories From This Week You Need To Read Facebook made a lot of news this week. Yahoo lost the No.

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

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APRIL 1, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > How to Use Social Media for Personal Branding How to Use Social Media for Personal Branding by Tamar Weinberg on April 1, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Dan Schawbe l.

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. Facebook Page is a great way to use it for building brands, calling people to action, and/or build ideas. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. Social media is about helping one another and building real strong friendships, usually around a certain interest or activity. When she found out I was his niece, she became ecstatic. Not yet, at least.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > Is Social Media Becoming Boring? Is Social Media Becoming Boring? by Tamar Weinberg on April 14, 2010 Share For most, social media is new and fun.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

There are a few jokes going around the blogosphere right now regarding what it means to be a social media expert. Despite the title of the post, having worked as the social media manager for Fortune 500 companies, and a lot of knowledge here being totally personal, I do not think of myself as an expert.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JULY 19, 2010

In fact, back in April there was a pretty good post in Social Media Today on 7 social media aggregation tools that you should use that caught my eye. It unifies your status updates into a single stream of information and lets you update your status across all your social networks at once.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? As small companies with limited budgets, nonprofits may feel that they are unable to dive into the wide world of social media. Thanks to social media, anyone can make waves. Why social media?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. Tagged as: blogs , college , forums , law school , seminars , social media , vbulletin , wordpress { 2 trackbacks } What Can I Do For You, Commentators? | Answers Yahoo! is to web 1.0.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. I elected instead to go to their Facebook account with the hopes that perhaps my luck would be better there. What about their Facebook wall? Again, Facebook was eventually cleaned up.) And I waited. I was wrong.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing by Tamar Weinberg on April 8, 2010 Share Even though social media isn’t new to many of us, the world is waking up to this new shiny toy.

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Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. Social networks are not what they used to be. Looking back at MySpace, it almost looks like pre-Y2k web Dev. Tags: social media mobile predictions 2011 Search. Take for example search. doesn’t it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > No, You Can’t Automate Social Media! No, You Can’t Automate Social Media! And it doesn’t help for marketing — at least not the social kind.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

and after being a full time mom and performing various social media marketing tasks throughout, I’ve learned that there are many parallels that can be taken from parenthood that also apply to social media marketing. Your Facebook Fan page will have 0 fans. That’s not really convincing social proof.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. Yahoo, too. Myspace also. How Does Your Audience Use Social Media?

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JUNE 3, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal > Announcing the Newest Social Media Prince Announcing the Newest Social Media Prince by Tamar Weinberg on June 3, 2009 Share Many of you have asked where I’ve been over the past few months.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook by Tamar Weinberg on December 10, 2008 Share Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, Facebook could eat the web. In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. Profile Page versus Fan Page The average Facebook user uses Facebook not for business but for personal communications.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network. I look back at Facebook’s emergence as a truly popular and desirable network that has simply gone from good to better. Facebook is clean and usable.

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Twist Image

JUNE 2, 2011

AOL was picked up by Time Warner in 2000 because it was seen as the next generation of destination media. It titled a little bit more when Facebook allowed people to put a "like" button next to anything and everything. mass media. social media. The Web used to be about destination. follow button.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing , Social Media > Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content by Tamar Weinberg on October 29, 2007 Share As many of us alluded to earlier this month at SMX Social Media , viral content is king.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Facebook, originally known as thefacebook.com, was a service that connected college students to their classmates and to friends in other universities. I’ve briefly touched upon a huge pet peeve of mine in my social media etiquette handbook , saying that you should use your real name and not represent anyone (or anything) else.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > An Open Letter to Facebook An Open Letter to Facebook by Tamar Weinberg on April 28, 2010 Share I started this letter before f8, so for the record, it’s not about anything new.

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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. identity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

With social media — or quite frankly, the existence of the Internet, any misstep you make in your personal dealings with others can become public. Social media is social. We’re starting to use search — and social media — as our recommendation engines.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog. Next time you proceed in a social media marketing campaign, follow some ideas and steps: Know your market. Kn ow your social media source’s demographics.

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