Firebelly

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Search engines and social networks are competing (and combining) in a myriad of ways. Heres a brief play-by-play: First, Googles Social Search feature graduated from an opt-in Google Labs experiment to a default feature on Google.com for signed in users - although it wont leverage much of Facebook. Facebook killers?

Yahoo 100

Yahoo Paid Search Compete SMS 100

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. It provides capabilities for capturing customer insights, response, brand management and social media outreach tracking. Nielsen BuzzMetrics.

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SM2 Vocus Alterian Radian6 202

Idaconcpts

AUGUST 26, 2010

Your brand name is not doing very well and you would like a part of the business to be re-branded and market it separately. The more competitive your site’s niche is, the more time and money you would need to spend so your microsite will be in a position to compete with other long established power websites. The Key Questions.

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Sites Domain Name SEO Directory 132

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

MARCH 4, 2010

How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises? Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ For the most part, you can’t buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans. Is it even possible? We can say that it is.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

No wonder Facebook hasn’t rolled out a Dislike option! Also, if a publisher has made a brand for himself online, even if a rival manages to mass -1 his content, how can we discount the publisher’s followers? They wouldn’t want their favorite brand to be mass -1ed, would they?

Google 40

Google Class Publishing Digg 40

Firebelly

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Toyotas "Sienna Family" YouTube Campaign | Main | Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500 » February 19, 2010 5 Facebook Stories From This Week You Need To Read Facebook made a lot of news this week. Facebook Outpaces Yahoo to Become No.

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Yahoo Facebook MySpace Paid Search 100

Viper Chill

AUGUST 28, 2012

I could have spent time commenting on other blogs, trying to harness Twitter or Facebook, tried to grow an audience on Youtube and so on. How about the Twitter and Facebook presence around relevant sites in the niche. And if you can mix that brand with hyper-useful, ViperChill-style content and some solid marketing then you will win.

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Adsense How To Forums Sites 77

SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

I get a lot of questions via Facebook , Twitter and my email contact form and many of the items listed below come straight from those questions, my experience in social media strategy, years of researching platforms and best practices and…well…tinkering with social media. 8) Take some time to learn the lingo of social media.

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Social Media Klout YouTube Foursquare 279

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.

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

But while a company blog should carry over certain key branding elements (e.g., Compendium , HubSpot ) to tools built into web content management system (CMS) platforms , but it’s tough to find an alternative that can compete with the flexibility, affordability, capability and search engine-friendliness of WordPress.

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WordPress Hubspot URL Widget 185

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Generally, these sites exist in the form of graphic design contest web sites where clients put up a call for submissions for a piece of graphic design work, and designers compete for a cash prize by submitting designs. Most recently, the site launched a co-branded version of their service for Best Buy. ReadWriteTalk. AltSearchEngines.

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Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make. People are different, communities are different and marketers/brands are different. As a result, the acceptance or success of a social media marketer will vary in different communities, using different tools and for different brands.

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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Idaconcpts

AUGUST 9, 2010

I’ve been reading “Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders&# by Adam Morgan, and as any AdWeek publication, it is a wonderful and captivating read filled with a lot of actionable insights. Share this on Facebook. Email this to a friend? Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn.

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Airlines Wireless Insurance Technorati 117

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

In fact, I used a Sony Vaio laptop that had no hard drive (really), ran from a Xubuntu Live CD, and every time it booted up I would be presented with a brand new operating system. Tweetdeck If you’re using Twitter in any way to build your personal brand or business, then Tweetdeck will help keep you organised. No problem.

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Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Facebook Ads: Will They Work for You? Rae explains all.

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Brands that are already established naturally have it a lot easier; they already have a following. Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook Hopefully, if you’re participating in social media marketing, you’re using more than just the tools everyone else is using. Trust is earned and building trust takes time.

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Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Thanks to brand new technologies that consistently and constantly claim our attention spans, thereby requiring us to shift our focus on a very regular basis, we’re no longer willing or able to sit still. Yup, you can’t just chat with people on Twitter and broadcast on Facebook. Links are just one currency of the web.

Social Media 267

Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Facebook added more than 200 million users last year, and Twitter more than doubled in size, adding 115 million. “The ultimate goal for many businesses is profit, not engagements, retweets or Facebook likes,&# as Nathan Hangen points out, so he offers a four-step plan to making a blog into an effective, non-pushy sales tool.

Social Media 198

Social Media Tools Tips ROI 198

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. Trackur is sort of Google Alerts on steroids and competes with products like Radian6 and Attentio. Share this on Facebook. Social Website Analyzer.

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Tools Social Media Radian6 CoTweet 188

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. A few weeks ago, another person connected with me on Facebook who was referred to me by a social media buddy I never actually met. You can’t do everything at once.

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Viper Chill

MARCH 2, 2011

Here’s a few: Proxy Sites : I built some proxies which allowed my college friends to access sites like Facebook and Youtube which had been blocked. I won a brand new PC running Windows Vista for my winning entry on marketing. In the space of four years, I focused on a number of different projects online.

Forums 79

Forums Project Sites Digg 79

Viper Chill

MAY 17, 2010

First, if you look at their traffic stats with Compete you can see that they have traffic spikes and dips at around the same time: Then, looking at feed subscribers , despite the large difference at the start of the graph, their growth rate is on a very similar consistent rise.

Blogger 76

Blogger Sites Delicious Comments 76

Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Use Postrank to Find Engaging Posts When I wrote a post about the 28 items in my internet marketing toolbox, I covered a nifty little service called Postrank Analytics which lets you see your most shared blog posts on sites like Digg, Delicious and Twitter. Now, who can tell me which one of these 7 suggestions gave me the idea for this post?

How To 77

How To Delicious StumbleUpon Postrank 77

Myrland Marketing

JUNE 29, 2010

Share this on Facebook Share this on Linkedin Subscribe to the comments for this post? And nothing against them, but there are just some brands that we don’t want to be social with? Would you follow a brand like Monistat? I can barely keep up with the 2200 or so people that I follow, how can a brand follow thousands?

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RFP Social Media Comments Training 77

Viper Chill

MARCH 18, 2010

Will you sign a 6-month non-compete agreement? I have deactivated my Facebook profile (this is probably temporary) as it steals far too many minutes in my day. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" What are the sites expenses?

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Buy Sites Questions Project 68

Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

Brand new blogs like The Verge are being flooded with more traffic than those that have been around for the best part of a decade. A lot has changed from the days when Digg was the only share button people used on their posts and – besides going directly to a website – RSS was the most common way to consume blog content.

Sites 96

Sites Industry Blogger News 96

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

— If you liked this article, please share it on del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg. — If you liked this article, please share it on del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg. Posted on 12 October 2008 in Productivity & Organization , Technology | Digg |. I’d appreciate it. :). Productivity 2.0: Del.icio.us |.

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Products Project Software Meeting 260

Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Check Facebook for interesting stories. Check aggregation sites like Inbound.org, Growth Hackers, Hacker News, Panda, Digg, etc. If you have a particular keyword or two that is central to your brand or area of expertise, look for people sharing content with that keyword. Check Feedly for interesting stories. Add to Pocket.

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Curation Influencer Content Newsletter 40

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. As of January 2010, Craigslist boasts close to 50 million unique visitors per month, according to Compete. I am very accessible.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

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. No, building your personal brand in social media does not count.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Digg 178

Idaconcpts

OCTOBER 29, 2010

With most brands shifting their social efforts online to networks like Facebook and Twitter, online reputation management (ORM) has become an important, if still new aspect of online marketing. Will the search engines be equally forgiving if competing brands begin to target each other in a similar fashion? Tweet This!

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SEO Journal Technorati Campaign 132

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Support Slowness It’s up to all of us to redefine what social media “success&# looks like, to focus our efforts on building kinship day-to-day, and yielding sustained passion for the brand. link] RT Please [link] Face to Facebook RT @jaybaer Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media? link] [link] MyCrowd.ca

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Social Media Strategy Affiliate marketing Company 159