Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

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. Meanwhile, this agency contracted one of the biggest social media rockstars in the space, a guy who has a stellar social media record.

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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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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 ? Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other location-aware services are social networks, unifying real connections.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Best, Isa 760 Media Reply Ben Cook February 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm As I commented on sphinn, I definitely think social media is going to become more and more mainstream over the next year or two. I think social media is here to stay and marketing through that medium is a natural progression.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Social Media results can’t be measured False. Unlikely at best.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

A 12-year-old resident of Missouri, Shelby’s Jericho website features a blog and has turned into a social good campaign with her promotion of charitable efforts for US troops , and even includes interviews with the cast and crew of Jericho as well as with US Air Force Thunderbirds and Alex O’Loughlin.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

He also gave a simple example of how to measure Social Media ROI: What you really want to know when measuring Social Media ROI is how much money each incoming warm lead is worth. Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Do the same thing for your social networks, and your other interactions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Viral content marketing is and should be the topmost priority of any online marketing campaign. I work with the Social Network Team at my job, so your advice comes in handy. What’s stopping you from taking the plunge? Reply Tinzley December 9, 2009 at 10:14 am Tamar, this is great information.

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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

The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. get Twitter mentions of your brand via RSS or email) or use a service like Backtype (backtype.com) to see comments across blogs and other social media sites (such as FriendFeed).

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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

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. Does social media convert?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

with any other Social media campaign,if the content or the product’s not strong theres no pint in taking up the campaign Reply Daniele Rossi February 7, 2008 at 11:22 am I use ester-c when I feel a cold coming on. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Hopefully, though, you’re considering other social networks to broaden your social media reach. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web.

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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 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

We can always be learning, and sometimes that requires us to read the same things phrased differently, to get content in the form of a refresher course, to remember that social media still has the human element at its core. Social media is often addictive in some ways too. Well that is, if you spend too much time on it.

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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. Thanks for the comments, Kristen!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

What I do think, is that this video raises important questions — like whether or not we know we’re being marketed to; and how successful a marketing campaign can be if it doesn’t tie in to the product or branding or encourage us to take some form of action. Personally, I also feel that the best products market themselves.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

Sit back and enjoy, and then play the accent game to see how an excellently-crafted viral marketing campaign can really help get people talking about you and your products. this particular campaign does seem to have succeeded wildly, the idea of giving ordinary people their 15 minutes of interweb fame is genius.

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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. It gave rise to an entirely new breed of speaker.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. There’s a LOT of bad information out there. What are they tweeting?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

For starters, with even a conservative estimate of the man-hours involved, I am quite sure that the campaign cost most than the $20,000 it was intended to raise – and probably generated 10 to 100 times as much PR value. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves. It’s not advisable for a company to promote a video campaign with a video that shows a typo in the company’s URL.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Towards a More Social Organization : Chris Heuer says that we’re becoming more social, so start realizing the importance of this trend and evolve accordingly. How to Measure Social Media ROI for Business : Aaron Uhrmacher explains the factors you must consider to see if your social media campaign has had an impact.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Andy has submitted nearly 15,000 stories to Digg and over 4200 of his submissions have hit the front page of the impossible-to-game social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement. I agree that interaction is the key to any social media campaign, whatever platform you decide to use. 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

DECEMBER 15, 2009

You’re not yet a social media marketing expert, not unless you’re consistently applying your skills to different and unique campaigns and initiatives. I’ve talked to some pretty big name social media people and they have zero concept of SEO. Much like SEO. For one of my recent projects, it was merely a video.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. I do not want to “disable” the news feed. I just want to control the flow of information coming to me from my social network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Or give them full download rights to your new software product without restrictions. As part of the Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish campaign by the Sears department store, I had the opportunity to participate in a shopping spree to help me or someone else realize our dreams. You can do something else entirely.

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