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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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Benefits of Online Reputation Management - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Professional networks like LinkedIn. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. Our primary goal when developing a social marketing strategy should be to establish conversation parameters.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Since the organization’s mission relies on storytelling, Stacey says, “social media represented a way for us to share those stories with the broadest possible audience for the lowest possible cost.&# Epic Change brought social media into the mix for other reasons as well.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And since the cost of adding calls to action on a website and/or sending email messages is relatively low (email sends are arguably the least expensive weapons in your marketing arsenal), failing to do so is an almost unforgivable sin for any enterprising social marketer.