Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

They’re designed to be chatty – as if you were having a conversation with a friend. In the long run, you can achieve phenomenal readership and conversion. That will not only hurt the conversion but also gaming the search engine which will not survive in the long term SEO game. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# They also were able to flex their muscles and throw around dollars to buy up all the valuable advertising and marketing opportunities. For the most part, you can’t buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed. The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. You need to consistently work at building relationships and not let them be. And you need to be consistently monitoring the space. Silence can hurt you. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Based on my findings, Problogger started in 2004, Copyblogger started in 2006, Daily Blog Tips started in 2006, Steve Pavlina’s Blog started in 2004, and Entrepreneur’s Journey started in 2004. Anyway, thanks both of you, for your thoughtful conversation on the issue. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. Blogs do just that.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. Some communities are very open to marketers being there and contributing to the conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

Being different and not buying into all the bells and whistles of self love (destruction in some cases) will only harm you in the long run. I really try to get to know these people who I converse with online. Reply Nick Stamoulis August 12, 2009 at 9:38 am The power of social marketing has surprised many. Meet them, if I may.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

My solution has been to respond with a note that the publisher doesn’t allow me to distribute that material (that’s true) and suggest that they buy a copy of the book that includes a CD. Reply Carri Bugbee July 30, 2010 at 5:00 am Todd, can I buy you lunch and pick your brain??? It usually ends the conversation right there.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) Buy something, get something. These tabs take the visitor back to their website where they can complete the purchase. Way too oldschool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site. It helps build loyalty, generate conversations, and it also gets you more followers if you do it right. Do I have social media integration on my business blog? Do your updates request for conversations?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Conversion expert. Oh…and I MAKE them buy your book… hehee~!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Your best bet is to consider an integrated marketing plan that consists of social media and other marketing tactics, because the act of just being nice to people online won’t bring you conversions. People Want More If the chart above is any indication, it’s without question that social media has grown by leaps and bounds.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Their goal is to send press pitches, not to buy ads on your site. If a blogger outreach consultant or social media agency emails you a story pitch, read their signature. Most PR people aren’t in a position to buy ads. Rule #4: This could be the start of something big. I don’t think so.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Lacy : For such a long time until the Microsoft deal, IPO was a topic of conversation. There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. The core of it is community building and without that, nothing wouldn’t be happening. Zuckerberg : Right.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Audiences there are large, but they are there to connect, not to buy. Companies need to leverage different social media channels if they want buyers. You know, going back to my own history, Facebook [Fan Pages] and Twitter weren’t around when I started offering social media strategy. It really does take some effort.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

5 Ways Companies are Using Social Media to Lower Costs (Mack Collier): Just what are the benefits of social media? 100 Thoughts on Social Media (Conversation Agent): This may be one of the shortest blogs post I’ve added to this 2010 list. It’s changed slightly in the past four years, so here are the new rules.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2006, social media was building steam in the United States. With the rise of Facebook’s popularity, the launch of Twitter, and the surge of influence from social news sites like Digg, social media looked to be a great breeding ground for marketers to make their mark. And make their marks they did.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

The final, successful inquiry started with Kristin at online conversation site Threewayaction.com, then moved to Becky-Says’ blog. She did receive many gifts, and emails circulated frequently taking up collections: “We want to fill her room with flowers, buy her a digital camera, a scanner, send her to Disney World&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media Will Change Your Business : This is an update to an old article from BusinessWeek on how blogs have changed your business. Not anymore — it’s about social media (which typically encompasses blogs too). How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? : You can learn a thing or two from it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Louis Gray Louis Gray is a prominent technology blogger and Managing Director of New Media at Paladin Advisors Group. He also founded Search Engine Watch.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Essentially, the actual user’s Twitter account became a broadcast medium but not a conversational one. And it doesn’t help for marketing — at least not the social kind. If I wanted to shout it out, I’d buy a billboard over the Strip in Las Vegas. Am I interested in what the other person has to add?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The SEO Angle If you’re a brand new student in the school of thought of SEO, after you’ve learned about improving your web presence via search engines, there are countless opportunities to prove to yourself that you know what you’re doing. Most say they care most about conversions. You then need to start executing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. Where Did My Facebook Page Go?

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