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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on January 19, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Samir Balwani , the founder of Training Social , a resource for those interested in social media training. Techipedia readers can use code Tamar for a 15% limited time discount when registering. Don’t forget to just share your thoughts.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales).

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Creating Passionate Customers: Brand Evangelism and What it Means.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Pam says that she’s experienced great service and low prices (especially with their Twitter discounted rate) — and the “rooms were spacious&# too. Both Pam and Joe talk about the social media/Twitter discount. and is a “homey and cutesy&# hotel with “lots of character,&# according to Jaffe.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral).

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The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” Guide | Social Media.

Social Media Strategery

LinkedIn is the most popular business-oriented social networking site there is. Once you create your account, start by following these people/lists: Read LifeHacker’s The Six Ways You Should be Using Twitter Take a look at the people I’m following for a good mix of social media, Government 2.0 (and Great work!

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What's Going to be Your Social Media Legacy?

Social Media Strategery

What started out as just a wiki now includes social bookmarking, social networking, blogs, and most importantly, a culture of collaboration that will continue even if one or two pieces is taken away. I am openly challenging myself as well as every other social media evangelist who is reading this post to be like Bill Cowher.

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