ProBlogger

MARCH 14, 2016

There is an incredible opportunity for bloggers that will help improve the quality of their content, serve their readers better, and potentially help their blog rank higher in search engines – and not everybody is making use of it! I share those ideas in today’s episode of the ProBlogger Podcast. – Social Media Examiner.

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Embedding Content How To Case Study 33

Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 13, 2010

It may not catch everything, but it finds a lot (via blogs, Twitter, social news sites and Facebook public pages) and presents the information through useful charts and graphs. Traditional PR + Social Media Monitoring. Share this on Facebook. Several pricing options are available, most under $500 per month.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Certain niches are more likely to see greater returns from social media. High Return Industries These industries tend to see high returns in social media marketing, quickly. Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories. Even better it can be measured.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

“I want to have 100,000 Facebook Fans in 2 weeks, and I am a start-up business that no one knows… &# It is hard to explain to people how it all works when they have this type of expectation. Marketing, social media and communication takes time, they are not going to be popular overnight! Thanks, James! the person.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

As bloggers, we’ve all experienced it: the completely off topic pitch. There are even more bloggers. The reason PR professionals are succeeding down this path is because of bloggers like us who are receptive to this impersonal and poorly researched messaging. There are thousands of public relations professionals.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

A while back, Todd Malicoat wrote about linkbaiting hooks …however, each and everything he says in his post can be mapped into the social media sphere. To increase the odds of meaningful conversational engagement, the initial dialogue should be ultra-resourceful…or humorous…or controversial…or valuable…or… How to do this successfully?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Keep building more valuable content and engage in marketing this content. favorite bloggers loves using big words, but I realize that I spend 3-4 times longer on this blogger’s posts than I do on all other posts because of the verbosity and complexity of the prose. Your consistent effort will payoff quickly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

By engaging the wedding party and having them dance down the aisle spontaneously, people watching the resultant video really felt the momentum. Genuine You don’t always have to engage in expensive video production to promote your wares, nor as the marketer do you have to create the video yourself. They got excited. They laughed.

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Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. If you’re considering social media marketing for your business, no matter what size your company is, listening and engagement is key. Reply Louis Halpern December 1, 2009 at 6:17 am Brands should engage with their audience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. Too many bloggers get a sense of their own importance, start believing their own publicity and offering advice waaaay out of their remit of what they really know about.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The issue, of course, is engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Those of you who read Techipedia regularly know that I won’t add you as a Facebook friend if I don’t know you. I guess it’s assumed in social spaces that when s/he initiates the friend request, you can comment on anything on their Facebook wall or tweet back at them about something personal or even comment on a photo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, Facebook could eat the web. In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. Don’t use a Facebook Group. Your Facebook Page should be created under your primary Facebook login.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Increase positive perceptions of brand by creating opportunities to listen to and engage with consumers. Engage in more effective public relations by understanding who the real influencers are.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Introduce yourself, engage in the community, and let them learn about your brand. You need to have a thoroughly compelling social piece. Those who engage in social media have an inherent thirst for interesting information. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But while you’re likely part of the small group of professionals who understand that the rules of engagement do not change when we cross over to the virtual world, there’s an ocean of people who easily think that access to an email address or a “send message&# form is an opportunity. (Of What do you choose?

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Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ They go out of their way to welcome any social media-initiated guests in person. If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us We have all engaged in debates over the past few years about social media. If so, how?

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Whether it’s Flickr , StumbleUpon , Digg , del.icio.us , Twitter , Facebook , Sphinn , LinkedIn , blogs , blogs , more blogs , and even more blogs , you can find me looking for the most pertinent content that aligns with my interests. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

And read these tips on how to become a great blogger. The letter “C&# could be a lot of things, like “content,&# “consistency,&# and “community,&# but customer service is a big part of the evolution of social media. Engagement. Engagement requires regular interaction between you and others.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Here’s a feature’s list, broken down by features that each service already contains: Plurk: Karma – an awesome feature that keeps people engaged, and gives users a goal. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? But if you’re engaged in a social media program in an effort to go “viral&# you’re not really engaged in social media at all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. Social Media: Who Can Show Us the Real Value?

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook. identity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Only recently, however, this story has become widely critiqued, with bloggers calling the practice a “vicious … royal mess&# that “crossed the line.&# The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Social media is about people, not logos. Volvo = Safety.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? There are days when marketers may have to serve as internal evangelist by introducing key stakeholders to social media. .&#

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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. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and PR pros need to find the right people for the job. The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. We both have difficult jobs. That’s just fine.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. I’ve seen internet marketers who sell products designed to help accounts gain hundreds of followers, which defeats the process of engaging an audience with outstanding content. Thanks so much for commenting!

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