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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Perhaps this is a “take heed&# call to community participants who engage on the social web, but while ExpertCruiser warns its readers that this is a scummy practice, in reality, scouring social sites for mentions of your product, service, and even your competitors is nothing new. My one and only cruise was free, I won it.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. This gave rise to regional marketing with the first hints of large scale world-wide marketing.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Money makes the world go round.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

« Direct Marketing Observations July 6, 2010 at 10:54 am Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources - Smashing Magazine July 8, 2010 at 3:27 am You’re It! I plan to provide travel services and while many will find my articles and posts interesting most will probably not use my services.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There are so many blogs out there that regurgitate news, causing clutter in the blogosphere. Smashing Magazine ), among other things. My blog has been evolving as I’ve recognized my desire to move more into commentary, with feature length travel articles sprinkled in. Fake Steve Jobs ), and being a vault of resources (e.g.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

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The magazine industry is crumbling. When everyone else is following their usual strategies pumping out the same old content, he’s leaving his wife and kids at home to travel around the US in an RV to shoot a documentary on living an unscripted life. Not only does his give a shit about his readers, but he thinks outside the box.

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