Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

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. Great content, #2, works across the board for social media. You’ll learn the importance of transparency and understand why this matters to your business.

Communities 170

Communities Marketing MySpace Yahoo 170

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.

Brands 133

Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

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.

Social Media 272

Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

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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Social Media Marketing Digg Consultant 221

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.

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 151

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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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

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. And there’s no one better to create reputation with than the employees themselves.

Communities 237

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Keyhole.co

JANUARY 5, 2023

With more than one billion active members, Instagram is one of the most prominent social networking channels among brands. Here, 83% of consumers discover new products and services, and brands can reach over 850 million people with ads. Thus, many businesses use this photo and video-sharing site for social media marketing.

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Analysis Instagram Tools Sentiment 52

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?

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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.

Social Media 105

Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

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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Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Sites 241

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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Social Media Content SEO Examples 180

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).

Brands 139

Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon 139

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.

Social Media 163

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Quick and Dirty Competitive Research for Keywords : If you’re looking for keywords to target in your SEO campaign, this guide will tell you what to do with available online tools and websites. It’s about being active all the time, watching the progress of your campaigns as they go through their cycles. Link Building.

Marketing 264

Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

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?

Sites 101

Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

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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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

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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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

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!

Social Media 268

Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

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.

Social Media 267

Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Social Media: Hiring and in the Workplace. Social Media: Measurement and ROI. Social Media: General. Leveraging Other Social Media Sites. Reputation Management. Social Media: Measurement and ROI. Can You Measure the ROI of Your Social Media Marketing? Reputation Management. SEO: Strategy.

Marketing 279

Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

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. Word travels. You can do better. Thanks for the great article.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

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. Once you do open a business you have to build a reputation.

Products 267

Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

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.

Meme 113

Meme Marketing Digg StumbleUpon 113

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.

Marketing 103

Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project 103

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.

SEO 162

SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

After all, if you’ve invested the time in reading the book, why not give back some honesty and expertise in an email to the PR person – knowing why you didn’t review the book can help them hone their future pitches and help you build a good reputation. Some big PR firms think they are better than bloggers.

Blogger 177

Blogger Press Release Advertising Review 177

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Social Networking: Like Falling In Love. Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical).

Twitter 198

Twitter B2B Crowdsourcing Hubspot 198

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.

Social Media 217

Social Media Foursquare Marketing Flickr 217

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement. Automation looks good but it is truly ineffective, true reputation and social media presence can only be built by hardwork and by you knowing what you are doing. Broadcasting works better as a billboard.

Social Media 251

Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

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.

SEO 178

SEO Social Media Marketing Digg 178

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.

Influencer 278

Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

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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Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277

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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Blogger Yahoo Buy Twitter 103