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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Market saturation brings lots and lots of experts , many of whom think Twitter is a shiny new object and are ready to write books, charge $2000 for conferences where they promise TWITTER TIPS AND TRICKS THAT NOBODY HAS SEEN BEFORE (in caps!), Social media marketing of four years ago, when nobody was around, was simply easier.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I tweet more frequently too, using HootSuite (my favorite Twitter application by far) to schedule tweets down the road. I promote new people. With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. I promote good content. I promote friends. I even enter contests. Many don’t overlap.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Social media? Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. 2010 by far was the biggest year yet in the Internet Marketing realm. , also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity SMM

It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. According to Tom Grant , Ph.D, You expand it.”

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