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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There are two things we must understand before we can define if social media adds value to your business. 1: Opportunity Cost – Every time you spend a minute on social media is one minute you potentially lost revenue. This inherent cost needs to be included in any equations you make when allocating resources.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Small Business Why Small is the New Big in Social Media Marketing (Jonathan Fields): Jonathan Fields explains why small businesses have a real advantage over large ones when it comes to biting the social media bullet. Let a contest help make these ideas a reality. This is a great read.

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Social Media Marketing Taps The Spirit of Entrepreneurship

Diva Marketing Blog

It takes imagination infused with courage to bring a new way of doing business into the mix. for a small business owner or the ceo of a Fortune 50 company. In today's down economy it is especially critical that small business owners tap into that spirit, step out of their comfort zone and color outside the lines.

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Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As small companies with limited budgets, nonprofits may feel that they are unable to dive into the wide world of social media. But small is the new big and some small businesses have seen a whole lot of unprecedented success. It’s something that may have previously been thought as impossible.

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Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Ultimately, there will be overhead “costs,&# such as monitoring your evangelists’ representation of your brand. Investing in a campaign that rewards your satisfied users to become your ambassadors is more cost effective than paying a sales agent with the added benefit that nobody likes a sales agent but we all love our friends.

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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only substantial cost for you is time. How many of you would really want to ignore such a viable source of business that comes at such an affordable price? The best part? Access to these social media communities is free. We’re seeing an incredible paradigm shift from a paid model to a virtually free model.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Your responsibility as a marketer is to understand that permission marketing might actually take work, but the other extreme is to choose an easy way out that will likely have a cost that may be hard (or impossible) to recover from. What do you choose? » ????? ????? » ?????????? ???????: ????????? ??