Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If it was a Comcast product, you’d get a near immediate response from Frank Eliason , the company’s Director of Digital Care. It can instill faith that your customers have in your company. If you’re going to dive in the social media world, you need to understand what it means to be “social.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing > How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search by Tamar Weinberg on April 22, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Evan Britton, founder of Sency.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

That’s why social media is important. It’s incredibly easy for someone to put up a web page and show how much they like or dislike a company. You’ll get exposure to case studies of companies that do this well and review cases of companies where listening severe impacted the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Now known as the “social media hotel&# of NYC, Roger Smith is attracting a really incredible bunch of people who have raved about the ambiance and the company’s approachability online. To me, it seems most companys focus on monopolies and then forced purchase of ad-ons without which the product wont work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. In a recent campaign, I was reached by a social media agency about a topic that was totally irrelevant to my audience and would never be something I’d blog about. Some people get that.

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Diva Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2008

for a small business owner or the ceo of a Fortune 50 company. Most social marketing tools. tactics such as blogs, social networks, social sharing (e.g., Google Alerts - While more internet marketing than social media, creating Google Alerts provides you with a free way to keep tabs on the pulse of your industry.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

You Need to Do it All the Time True social media marketing — that is, connecting with your customers and prospects — is a consistent and regular task. One-off campaigns can help drive viral success, but social media is not a “set it and forget it&# type of initiative. Still, though, you trudge through it.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I would have loved to get a job in something social media related but that quest always evaded me. I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. 99 best social-media and PR posts of 2009 – Holy Kaw! That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I would have loved to get a job in something social media related but that quest always evaded me. I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. 99 best social-media and PR posts of 2009 – Holy Kaw! That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Even a recent thread on Cre8asite Forums discussed this, kicking off by someone stating they find social media very intimidating. The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. Yes, it’s all to do with social media.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. This moment essentially marked the beginning of social media influencers. Along with WeChat and Douyin, Weibo remains one of the most popular social networks in China. Not to mention giving us all the ability to puke rainbows.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

In no particular order, here they are: Make Friends In the Industry Community Managing is super easy when you’re working for a well-known tech company in the middle of Silicon Valley. But what if you’re Community Managing for a company that makes matchbooks? Who are the heavy hitters?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

In the past few months, I’ve dealt with companies who are unfortunate victims of bad links in Google, but those links refer to incidents that are years old (and are even resolved). Public safety comes first but reputation management is something the company may want to engage in. Hope you get better.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? I think that where we are will continue to evolve, but we’re seeing that face-to-face connections have a role in social media marketing as well. You need to keep your current customers happy.

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It seems that while QQ, a desktop-native platform, used to be the top social media platform in China, WeChat, a messaging app from the same parent company, has taken over its place. Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking site for sharing text, photos, links, videos, audios, and more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

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. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page. After all, Facebook could eat the web. I know I would.)

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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. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Brand evangelism is a word of mouth marketing tactic in which the ardent supporters of your service or product feel so passionately about your offerings that they act as unofficial spokespeople on your company’s behalf. They are cheerleaders on the sidelines and they’re rooting for your team.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It’s about engaging with customers, prospects, industry press, analysts, bloggers and other key influencers to increase the amount of positive conversation about your company, product or service. But “control&# is tricky in the social media world. Make sure that social media efforts are sustainable.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

This will help a great deal in planning and managing successful marketing campaigns. Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. It just depends on the needs of the client.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

However, to some, social media is a fleeting trend. That’s because social media marketing experts found success early on since social media relationship building was simply easier. Back then, companies who were engaged were genuinely involved because they wanted to build strong valuable relationships.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck. Some people think social media is just fun. What do you think about using social media for business? If your business is already on the social web, you will need something to help you improve on your campaigns.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

But there’s a lot more to media than just these social networking sites. In any marketing campaign, the more you see the product, the more likely you are to be influenced by it, even if you don’t want to be. Does social media convert? This shouldn’t come as a surprise. What’s holding you back?

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Reports, surveys, studies and infographics are among the most popular content posted and shared across social networks. But which networks are most effective for spreading the content produced? How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? 71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social media is a continuous effort, not something that is only campaign-based. Campaign-based social media marketing only works when it complements continuous social media marketing. In other words, don’t show up in the social space only when you need a hand. The problem was that the client had none.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

In fact, in a test a colleague of mine ran with sponsored advertisements, the incentive-based campaign was much more successful than the original information-only campaign. And unfortunately, social media is at fault for breeding this mentality and causing it to spread. Which is why we charge as much as we do.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If some or all of your target market speaks a language other than English or resides in a non-English majority speaking country, they might be active on a non-English social network. In that spirit, here are some of the most popular social channels for non-English speakers. Sina Weibo is an app for personal microblogging.

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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. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

I was able to interview Dave, one of the brilliant minds behind the company and the game, and he has given some really great information about the viral marketing piece, including the costs and the execution. Tamar : What does your company do? Tamar : What does your company do? Tamar : What inspired you to do the accent game?

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

“What are good companies to target? Overall, the questions were basic and I worried that the individual was looking to target companies for clients before actually understanding the nuances of the culture of Internet marketing as a whole. Should I learn a specific skillset?&# Word travels. You can do better.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

What percentage of Fortune 100 companies are on Twitter? Which social networking site is used by 92% of senior marketing executives? What social media tool helps small business double their reach on Twitter? How do B2B social media marketing practices differ from B2C companies? While 28% of U.S.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The first week of September was difficult for American cable network TLC. There was a hostage situation at the parent company, Discovery Communications, on the first of the month. Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves.

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