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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives. mentality there.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Taking this theme a little further, I decided to branch out into the blogosphere, but using the number seven this time around was a tad too limiting. There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. Uniqueness Darren Rowse wrote a great post about how you can be a unique blogger.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was contacted by 16-year-old blogger Onibalusi Bamidele who has guest-written this post. There is a trend among many new (and even old) bloggers. Yet many bloggers who have not even spent up to a year on their blogs keep complaining about not achieving any results. They have been around for years now.

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The Importance of Networking on the Internet

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I don’t necessarily expect to meet with those folks immediately; often, these powerful relationships are formed online, and I then try to learn what I can about the blogger himself/herself and follow up, normally at a conference or industry event. But sometimes there are surprises in every single meeting. In a city of 8.3

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Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many of them (more than half) were individuals I met at search conferences, but other conferences (SXSW, events that Mashable was involved in in the capacity of host or media sponsor, and the first IZEAFest) also represented my Industry connections. Some of these friends have mutual real-life friends (outside typical industry connections).

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These posts are not in response to newsworthy events, nor are they displayed in any particular order. And… Brian Solis is the most eloquent writer I have ever seen in the blogosphere. Sending products to bloggers helps too!) Every year, I can only read so many articles. Soren Gordhamer shows you how.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I asked several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants. They usually work 70 hour weeks and need to be extremely flexible.