Diva Marketing Blog

MAY 12, 2013

Just Once Crowd Sourced Question is a Diva Marketing series where the community shares their insights on a specific social media issue. Facebook, Yahoo, Google and others have a lot to learn from these guys. People do business with people that may represent companies but not really just the companies themselves as a whole.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

s companies can use technology to place users in control of information, and is home to ongoing discussion about the user revolution and Enterprise 2.0 B2B Vertical Search: Enabling Information Discovery and Decision Making for an Industry Communityâ?? - Future of Communities. Yahoo Search blog. More info here.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This makes you a valuable community member and builds awareness. In addition to putting on them company vehicles and owners’ cars, give them for free to employees, partners, stakeholders and investors, charities you donate to, and other contacts to display. These stories add credibility to your company and help you get more customers.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. All of this is happening to companies (maybe yours) every minute of every day. If a consumer emails a company, we’ve trained them to expect a response in a day or so.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. As with this year, we will be asking our community to nominate their favorite leaders in this field. Meghan Biro.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Social Mention (or a paid social media listening package like Radian6 , if you have one) Go to www.socialmention.com and search for your company or product name (in quotes), and set the pull-down to “all.&#

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Regarding comments about the search box location, I'm used to a left or central location on search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.), Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. but a right-hand location on content sites. All rights reserved.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

These are all just different communities and different tools, so you need to make sure you find the right tool for the job. I also add more geeky sites like Delicious, Yahoo buzz, reddit, Slideshare, and maybe digg or even flickr. Nancy Myrland April 6, 2010 at 12:43 pm Thanks Adrian. Thanks for joining the conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Yahoo, too. Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy. If you’re a big company, how can you act small again? link] Clare Swindlehurst Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less?

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agora pulse

APRIL 28, 2020

An experienced digital marketing professional who works with companies to enhance results from Digital Marketing. As a result, either you or a member of the larger community may say something that misses the mark and upsets someone. Ashley Graham : How you plan to connect and communicate with your community on social media is key.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

How are consumers and b2b decision makers using social media in their buying processes? However, that figure rises if you work for a company generating at least $10 million in annual revenue, or you’re in management (in which case it’s $109,000). Social Media Use in Big Companies. Twitter has the fifth oldest.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) Hope that helps! Joseph | RepuMetrix Inc.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! Approximately 10 years after having 67% of the search market, Yahoo! Historical footnote: Yahoo! Don’t Sell Too Early Many of the missteps that contributed to MySpace’s decay were based on the company not moving beyond its core proposition. But back to MySpace.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Weve written about a number of companies that employ crowdsourcing to produce their product or service here on ReadWriteWeb, but in this post well specifically look at companies that allow you to leverage the crowd to get something done. Fixya is a question and answer community, in which people ask and answer technical support queries.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Back then, companies who were engaged were genuinely involved because they wanted to build strong valuable relationships. Just like “social media experts&# want more freebies, so too, consumers expect more of the companies using this space. After all, the companies are intruding on their turf unannounced.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Her blog based on the book, Stories That Sell Guide , covers B2B marketing, case studies, leveraging customer stories, video testimonials, and more. Her latest posts include Why Companies Need to Free Their Case Studies , Traits of the Perfect Success Story Interviewee , and What’s Missing From This Ad. Deborah Ng. Kristi Colvin.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

I remember having Yahoo, Hotmail, Mail dot com, AOL & a work email address when I first got into online marketing some 10+ years ago. And now, people are getting multiple email accounts (free via gmail and yahoo) in order to better manage their traffic. They need to have a means of communication external to their system.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. If you keep at it, that number will double and triple, but you must keep at it.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 1, 2012

Instead of Jim the author and super cool guy, pretend you’re Jim the Social Media Manager at a software company or a brand. Jim: It depends on the company. If it’s a company that really does a lot of customer service, then I’ll take Twitter every day of the week. Eric: We’re a B2B software company.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. Reply Ken Wohl February 11, 2010 at 1:08 am In the coming month I’ll be be contacted bloggers that either my company has already built a relationship with or that are within my company’s niche.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

But while companies are rightly trying to get their heads around the concept that every customer is now a secret shopper and a potential reporter, not enough attention is being paid to the positive ramifications of real-time business. A quick check of Yahoo! Listen some more and react some more the way that business is done today.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Facebook The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook (Inside Facebook): Justin Smith shows how Facebook includes a variety of channels that spread the word in a very in-depth blog post. The difference is that it’s virtual.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2010

August 25th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Today’s post is a collaboration with Clinton Bonner , community connectivity expert, futurist, and blogger at Everything to Everything. Carefully crafting and leading the consumer experience in-store and virtually, has earned the company trust and admirable loyalty.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. It takes a community to build a community. According to Tom Grant , Ph.D,

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Authority Labs By far my favorite tool for tracking search engine positioning, Authority Labs shows you at a glance whether you’re #4 or #40 in Google, Bing and Yahoo! Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform. See who's talking about your brand or company: [link] [link] Meghan Gehan Kurrently revolutionizes real-time #search with #twitter and #facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. Join other communities When you’re first starting off, or even if you already have a large platform, you should participate in communities that already exist. Photos by Shutterstock.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

LinkedIn Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site. FriendFeed is a service but it’s also a community. It may even be used against you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. Now, a couple weeks later, a PR rep came to me and said, hey a lot of those people are joining this one company (that I rep), would you like to learn more?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Use social networks respectfully to share the best of your content, in a community-appropriate setting. Remember that community and marketplace are two different things. Make it easy for your community to reach you.

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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? Whose fault was it? I can’t!

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 4, 2020

B2B companies, on the other hand, might be better off connecting via LinkedIn hashtags or Twitter Live. Focus on building your brand, audience, and community. That could mean entertainment value, pearls of wisdom or motivation, or the opportunity to connect with a community. Technically the company is an apparel retailer.

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