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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. HTC said no, and this spurred a very efficient consumer movement. Again, by no means is this new.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. – social software and the communities it empowers are for contributing, not pushing. I think as web 2.0 party hats not bullhorns.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Marketing Tactics (SEOmoz): Jane Copand, the Web 2.0 guru, shows how to leverage Web 2.0 25 Headline Formulas that Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0 PR Disasters Lurk in Web 2.0 Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 This post has been brought to you by SMS Gateway software.

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Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Word travels. Reply Ryan Beale March 10, 2010 at 1:55 pm While I am in sales for a software company, I am no “snake oil salesman&# and get frustrated when I come across them. Should you hear of such, I can pay and would want to travel to such a class, please, please let me know. And thanks again.

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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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Make a Wish for Someone Else this Holiday Season (and the Power of.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Or give them full download rights to your new software product without restrictions. One of the best ways to achieve this goal is through blogger outreach, which typically includes more than just sending out your press release: give the blogger the opportunity to try your product. Send them your book. Or your beanbag chair.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I have encountered another FB fan page issue: as owner of travel agency start-up I cannot get the fan page address until I have 25+ fans (it used to be higher in the past)…ridiculous arbitrary number…why can’t I give a fan page address directly to potential customers? Just my $0.02.

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