Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

One of the most common questions in social media is – “is it worth it?”. Because of the nature of the marketing tool, each industry differs to the point that people just aren’t sure. Every industry can benefit from social media. 4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Which is why, of course, your business needs a killer social media strategy. In order to tap the potential of this fabulous marketing tool, you’ll want to first determine if social media can meet your goals and objectives. New tools pop up. Social media is changing how we do buisness. Some are great.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

25 Signs You’ve Got a Strong Social Media Consultant or Agency (The Buzz Bin): Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston explain that social media consultants need to know a lot more than about the basic tools out there. What is social media about? No, it’s not about the tools!) She has some great comparisons.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Search Engine Optimization Benefits A third, more subtle, reason to “fix your house” is the impact that social functionality can have on search engine optimization. Reply Allen - Personal Brander May 18, 2010 at 10:32 am I was supposed to write about the search engine benefits when I first read your Title!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

The Quiz The quiz is another viral tool that brings a bit more fun into everyday web browsing. Search Engine Smackdown Which Transformer Are You? Tools Users also like things that make their lives easier. Quiz yourself on relationships or just random trivia and see how well you score.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

With regards to Search Conference, I refer to Search Marketing Expo, PubCon, and Search Engine Strategies, but I also met a few people at Affiliate Summit. These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships. It’s not. Interesting observation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It might also be a good idea to have clear examples from previous examples of your work that you can show them, with solid stats, visual tools and information, so you have something concrete to back up the points you’re trying to make. Your customer may find it easier to understand if they see what the general trend of social media is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

The more you read, the better and more prepared you will be to communicate through various social media channels. Use tools such as alltop.com and google.com/alerts to find the right blogs and new articles, and then subscribe to them through RSS using Google Reader. And getting to know social media is an important step.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Reply Tamar Weinberg December 17, 2009 at 11:26 pm Janie, I’m not entirely sure – I think it really depends on email marketing tools. My focus is more on the humanness of the business versus the tools of the trade. The tools help, but at the end of the day, it’s about the relationships.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

After you’re quite certain you’re ready to dig into the social media world and you have formulated a strategy , the latter half of the book will guide you through popular existing tools that can ease your way into social media. You’ll learn: What’s the hype about LinkedIn and how can I use it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change’s success obviously means that the tools they used, where the barriers for entry are rather low, are working. Interactions We’ve seen the motivations for Epic Change to get involved in the social media space, but what do they do? They wanted to use media that was free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : The SEO Success Pyramid : Matt McGee talks about the process of making great websites. Online SEO Tools: The Ultimate Collection : At Search Engine Journal, Ann Smarty has compiled a list of the most valuable tools to perform SEO analysis. Every post is a winner!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Maybe you’ve set up a blog to run AdSense and earn money from the search engines. That doesn’t mean they can’t be search engine friendly too. A peppering of keywords here and there will help your blog be more visible to search engines. One tool I’ve recently discovered is Scribe SEO. Your blog has to be excellent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure? If you haven’t already, get measurement tools to measure all your social activities. Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. PostRank is becoming one of my favorite tools. Have a nice one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Anyone who knows a good search engine optimization expert knows that keyword stuffing is not an approved tactic. A search engine optimization expert is usually focused on changing URL structure, optimizing title tags, and making code tweaks to a website to make sure the search engines find the site and the pages contained therein.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

As for the sessions I liveblogged, there were eleven in total (see the Search Engine Roundtable’s SMX West coverage for details). The biggest challenge is maintaining thousands of bookmarks to vertical search engines. Natural language processing : search engines should begin to understand documents stored online.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. I admit social media is a great tool for doing online reputation management. microblogging-sites August 25, 2010 4:56 PM Pervara Kapadia said. Consumer Review sites such as epinions, MouthShut and others.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They hear about tools, put forth a miserable effort, and are either too busy or just lazy. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. However, without a successful plan and any adequate preparation, your social media efforts will fail. It’s a dumb move, to be honest (I thought it was temporary!).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. If you have the mindset to make Facebook a professional tool, you certainly can turn it into one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

FriendFeed is just another tool to let the world know who you really are on top of Facebook and LinkedIn (and perhaps your blogs). You may be trying to be as open as possible, but some of the information you’re thumbing up or voting upon simply isn’t you, or at least it’s something you don’t want the world to know.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When searching for new and interesting websites, it is much preferable to visit a website on a friend’s recommendation than it is to use classic search engines. They’ve aggregated the entire Internet into what’s cool and what’s not so cool. I guess I phrased it incorrectly previously.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

Face it (no pun intended), Facebook is the ultimate stalker tool. In my case, I have particularly taken a liking to the News Feed. I like to get where I want when I want to, and Facebook’s design makes that very possible. Facebook lets you spy. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Reply Robert February 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm You had me when you put more focus on communicating than the tools. Made me laugh when I compared it back to Roberts comment about focus on communicating rather than tools. There is a reason why Social media is called social media. Hope that clarifies. It doesn’t work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner is a CRM tool too, allowing you to connect with potential followers. The tool will also prevent you from following spammer accounts through a variety of tactics. Tweet content: @replies : You also might choose not to follow people if they are a broadcast tool. Twitter CRM. Thanks for doing the research.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

LinkedIn is a industry tool. In the end, I guess there are two social networks that I take seriously: Facebook for keeping in touch with everyone who has somewhat of a personal connection to me, and LinkedIn for business opportunities and for networking with colleagues. The chart below accounts for my 200 connections. Great article.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. StumbleUpon is different from many other social sites in that it works via a toolbar installation on your browser.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Search for blogs via paid tools such as Radian6, TruPulse, and Trackur. BuzzStream is a brilliant new tool that lets you gather contact names and addresses and chart your history of communications with each individual blogger. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Despite this, social media marketing is much more difficult than search engine optimization. The Quest for Knowledge What exactly does it take to become a search engine optimization expert or a social media marketing expert? In both of these aspects of search engine marketing, you begin by learning.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. Here’s a secret, it’s a great tool for tracking your favorite users too. link] Pagerization Infinite scroll!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer? What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Facebook is a great tool for marketing your business , but only if you use it correctly. This is a page you can use that is publicly available (for the world to see and find via search engines) to help your customers find you. I mean, if they are SEO experts, why are they not bringing in search engine traffic? Only your name.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

SEO for Facebook Pages Your Page is visible to search engines! Now that you’ve created your custom landing page, keep in mind that search engines see the page layout in the same way that someone who is not a fan of your page would see. Facebook is growing massively at the moment — is your brand a part of that momentum?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You can build followers to these accounts through Twitter tools such as Tweet Spinner. My first account is on technology/social media tools which is in my 9-5 shop but I have other topics I’d like to dive into, let’s say fashion, art, travel and finance. I think that your goals should be clear, though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

After all, Facebook was a tool that college students were using before it was open to the public, and some still use it as a purely personal and not a professional tool. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

The widespread adoption of social media has caused for hordes of “experts&# to suddenly come into town assuming that they can totally own this niche. These new “Internet Marketers&# take Twitter by storm, using automated Twitter tools in abundance that give them the true appearance of expertise.

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