Career Growth: Industries Have Expiration Dates Too
The past is linear. The future is arguably a little less linear, and a little more jumbled ball of stops, rest points, and sideways explorations. Online education is abuzz at the moment—sites like Udemy, Skillshare, Couresa, etc.—all competing to be your education supplement. This post isn’t so much about why you should be taking those…
The Multi-Generational Dilemma and The Golden Opportunity
After participating as a mentor in Startup Weekend and leading several adventure travel groups I realized how powerful collaboration is and it got me thinking about finding ways for different generations to work together through a shared purpose and exploring areas where we can learn from each other. Throughout 2013 I had the opportunity to…
The Great Big Social Networking Experiment
You’re building a global network. Today, we all are. Most of us have never built a global network before. We’ve never had the vast capability that we now have thanks to social technologies. No wonder we don’t know what we’re doing. It’s all an experiment. Trial — and error. And the stakes are getting higher every…
Here’s How to Use Social Media To Build Powerful Networks
If you’re thinking about growing or engaging your network online, I find a lot of people somehow manage to skip two fundamental steps. 1. Include people you already know 2. Actively connect to people It seems when we’re focused on community building on the web we feel the need to reinvent the wheel! For instance,…
How to Use Twitter Chats to Build Dynamic Online Communities
If who you follow is a key to deriving value from your social networking activities (and it is!), the better you do it for your own purposes, the more you’ll benefit. Here’s one bountiful way into the chaos that will help you find people and accounts sharing content you’re going to want to see in…
Why Influencers are Important For Your Brand
Saying that marketing is expensive is equivalent to beating a dead horse, but it’s the truth. With so many options today in digital, email, printing, and branding costs, just to name a few. In today’s day and age, finding influencers for your brand, either through customer acquisition or reaching out is one of the most…
16 Proven Resources for Small Business Owners
As a business owner, it’s challenging to run the business, deliver value to your clients and market/sell to keep the work flowing. Here are 16 resources that will help make your life easier in these three key areas. I’ve used each of these or had them recommended by people I trust and respect. What have…
How to Leverage the Social Mobile Marketing Paradox
Marketing Paradox Today’s good news, thanks to social, mobile and content marketing, is every brand, company and personal brand has exponentially more touch points. The bad news is every company, brand and personal brand has exponentially more touch points. Gatekeepers ruled the world. New York Times editors decided what we read. CBS, NBC and ABC…
Why Google Plus Hangouts on Air are the Next Big Opportunity
Author: Nikol Murphy What if I told you that you could reach your audience using video WITHOUT them being a Facebook Fan, having a Twitter Handle, Google+ account, signing up for a teleseminar, webinar or your email list? WARNING! SHINY NEW OBJECT ALERT! In my mind, there are two types of people. Those who are…
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