Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Though, I travel a lot, cruising is not my usual style of vacation. Every travel writer knows the creditability risk one takes when recommending a resort or cruise that one stays at for free. They are responsible for their own travel arrangements and expenses, which are not paid by Royal Caribbean.

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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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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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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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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. As a result, I’m working on the launch of an online magazine-style format that will have a place for other occasional bloggers to post as well.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Golden Rules of Linkbaiting (Smashing Magazine): The wonderful guys at Smashing Magazine take quotes from a variety of link baiting articles and make a compelling argument as to why link baiting works. For more 404 pages, check out the Smashing Magazine collections. That’s my holiday travelling reading list sorted!

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