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MAY 2, 2010

May 3rd, 2010 · View Comments While newspaper and magazine owners are still trying to decide whether or not they should aim for eyeballs or paywalls, there are several other companies who are happy to take up the challenge. Compare that to the epic lists of staff at most magazines, for example, and you can see a big contrast.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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JULY 15, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. Next step you need to market your blog to reach your target audience.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 19, 2010

And to have seen a mention of other forms of media beyond newspapers and magazines. publisher is trying to adapt pretty quickly – I was a bit surprised to read that Hearst is looking to buy SEO and Marketing company iCrossing for around $375 million. But it seems one U.S.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way.

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MAY 13, 2010

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. It’s not viral unless it is.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 1, 2009

and several companies targeting content creation for primarily SEO purposes. And in the case of some companies, develop and use tools to see what people are actively searching for at the time to create the right content to capitalise on that interest (e.g. The first is the ‘battery farm’ approach – as seen by aol.

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The Way of the Web

AUGUST 19, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Thoughts on UK magazine ABC figures… Making some real world changes… → Influence and Empire Avenue August 19th, 2010 · View Comments The quest to measure and monitor online influence is one that is enticing a lot of companies and individuals.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. Here’s my list for 2008.

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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 am one of those users.

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The Way of the Web

JUNE 4, 2010

And it’s going to push digital companies to innovate even faster, which is going to be interesting. Carolyn blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: What I liked about the event were the stories of independents innovating on small budgets, a world away from the big media orgs.

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JUNE 11, 2010

We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. We reconfigured our companies to accommodate phone. Not just the big companies, but the every companies. Your first assignment is to help us settle on a title.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 14, 2009

It’s a tactic also being used by the likes of Demand Media and Answers.com , and has also been utilised by companies such as Yahoo. It’s traditional media companies that will be hit first by another broadside – they have formal structures which will be impossible to change in time to respond to a new threat.

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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. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Absolutely.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media , Viral Marketing > When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Why not encourage the spread of goodwill?

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MARCH 4, 2010

Imagine subscribing to a magazine that was about tennis one month, and about cooking the next month. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. Very helpful post, Jay.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison.

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MARCH 18, 2016

This is episode two of my new show: Marketing Marvels. There is A LOT of marketing technology out there, and it’s difficult to know what all the platforms and packages do, whether it makes sense for your business, how it stacks up to competitors, and a bunch of other key questions. Marketing Marvels viewers get a two week free trial.

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The Way of the Web

AUGUST 9, 2010

I’ve spent a long time working for media companies, and whatever you may believe about the media industry as a whole, I’ve seen an enormous amount of respect and faith from audiences for traditional media products. What content farms rely on: There are two things that content farms rely on for content creation – Search and Advertising.

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JUNE 3, 2010

link] [link] Jason Never underestimate how far showing a little humanity instead of towing the company line can go towards setting things right. From a PR standpoint, I see companies and people time and again fail to embrace the cardinal rule of admitting mistakes to the highest degree possible. What BP Can Learn From the Umpire.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Though I'd say it's not just restricted to PR.

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MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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Justin Levy

JULY 6, 2010

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking My Obsession: The Consumption of Information Written on July 6, 2010 by Justin Levy in consumption , information 4 Comments - Leave a comment! Magazines : I subscribe to a healthy number of magazines (affiliate links): Fast Company , Inc.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Company promotions and advertisements were broadcast through television, magazines, billboards and the occasional internet banner. Employers do not want to hire a person whose Twitter or Facebook page could make their company look bad. That area has totally shifted! is, But They Do Need to Experience It Six Villains of Gov 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Facebook The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook (Inside Facebook): Justin Smith shows how Facebook includes a variety of channels that spread the word in a very in-depth blog post. I can tell you that finding these articles isn’t easy!

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In 2009, I’m going to move reading back up my priority list and start dedicating time each day to my Google Reader, my stack of unread books, magazines, and Twitter stream. In 2009, I want to do more to illustrate the “What’s in it for me&# to our everyone at my company, especially our managers. The Whole. :

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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. 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.

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. But, if you think it through, many companies could succeed by participating in this community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Tagged as: audacity of free , authors , book , chris brogan , free , Marketing , social media { 3 trackbacks } VIP Access: The VIPerchill Business Plan August 4, 2010 at 4:12 am Could Consultants Offer Incentive-Based Pricing? Before I was in marketing, I was in tech support. At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed.

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APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Smashing Magazine ), among other things. Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums. Search marketing? Who do you look up to for productivity tips?

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Justin Levy

AUGUST 8, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking The Power of a Note Written on August 8, 2009 by Justin Levy in communications , customer service , interaction , loyalty , presidentobama , social media , video , zappos 35 Comments - Leave a comment! Are you doing this within your company?

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JUNE 8, 2010

But while companies are rightly trying to get their heads around the concept that every customer is now a secret shopper and a potential reporter, not enough attention is being paid to the positive ramifications of real-time business. Instead, you must first establish a protocol by which your company is CONSTANTLY listening for opportunities.

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The Way of the Web

JULY 1, 2010

Now ask yourself how many great ideas never make it anywhere in a large media company, and how easy it might be to allow people with ideas half a day each week in total time to see if their idea might work? Tags: Digital Publishing · Magazine Publishing · journalism blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

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The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Some of that gaming experience and the friendships I’d made also led to my first work experience in the media, and indeed my first paid freelance work published in a national magazine. Having said that, I can't work out if I need or want a PS3 or 360 next year (had a 360 before and never really had the time to play.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I have returned from Blog World Expo 2010 with new friends, 30 pages of notes, tons of pictures, two magazines, three books, a blank journal, a nice stack of business cards, four buttons, stickers, a yo-yo, and, most importantly, an elevated enthusiasm for the world of blogging and social media. Ok everyone. People spread awesome.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Marketers love Facebook. If you had any doubt, just go on over to their stats page and see for yourself why it is something you want as part of your marketing strategy. Scroll down to the end of the post for details on how to win. t vài cách ?? ng Fans th? |

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