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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Jayesh Paul May 19, 2010 at 10:54 am Powerful points, social media tools are making more easier to check your SMO efforts via social stats with google analytics. can be done only if you’ve some expertise on social/business networking’s smart techniques. correct me if not so. Reply Jay B. will bring!

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). Reply josh February 27, 2008 at 4:10 pm Social marketing has already arrived. Facebook is growing closer to the size of google. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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). Think of all the attorneys that do insurance defense work…no friggin’ way could I do that and sleep at night. it’s a dilemma.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Jamie Gorman May 5, 2010 at 6:02 pm Tamar, I had a friend show me a FB page he is designing for an insurance agency where he put a promotional picture (save money on your insurance) where the profile picture would normally be. For example, let’s say you’re an insurance agency or a bank.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail. For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We may never know why someone who (by her own claims on Google Groups) was pulling in $5,000/month via counseling fees, affiliate marketing programs, and essays posted to paying websites such as Squidoo, would risk it all in a scheme that only raised a few hundred dollars. I almost fell for this too.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Basically, Facebook thinks they can run a similar model to Google, not having live customer service. – “Georgia health Insurance&# ) only a business name — who the heck is going to find me?! SEO and Google is still the only worthwhile pursuit of a small business owner’s time.

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