Are you getting frustrated looking for a new job and not having any results? Are you following the same old process of replying to a job listed on the company’s website and never hearing from the employer? Maybe it’s time to try a new route in finding your new career! Social media websites provide more than just catching up with old friends these days. They are also a way to connect with prospective employers and find out about their day [...]
Online video marketing is on the rise and people of all ages are watching videos on the web. While photo and text updates are typically the norm, a video can really show your customers your creative side and set yourself apart from your competition. Not sure how to get started? Here are a few tips to get your video launched for your business: […]
If you’re using Twitter, then you’ve definitely seen the use of hashtags. A hashtag is a keyword phrase without spaces that has a pound sign (#) prefix, such as #hashtagsarecool. The main purpose of a hashtag is to allow people to search tweets that have a common topic. You simply click on the hashtagged word and Twitter will pull up all tweets dealing with that word or phrase. And even though they are most commonly found on Twitter, you will [...]
Today’s small businesses have fantastic opportunities for self-promotion and free marketing. Away from marketing you may be enmeshed in more red tape than ever, but online the resources available for growth and development are amazing. A resource that needs to be tapped into is LinkedIn. You may think of this site as a place to host your static CV but it is actually one of the social networks with a good many million users. […]
Think that you need to go to a Chamber meeting and events all the time to network? While face-to-face networking will always be a great means of networking, the internet has made it simple to be able to network from your office or home. LinkedIn is one of the best online networking sites where professionals can meet and engage with each other. When looking to build your business, join groups! You will be the most successful when you find groups [...]
We’ve been told that Pinterest is the fastest growing social media website out there, but is it right for your company? Pinterest is a photo sharing pinboard type website that allows users to create photo categories of almost anything they want. Users can browse other pinboards and ‘re-pin’ to their own and also ‘like’ other pins listed. Some popular boards are travel, crafts, food, cars, fashion and sports. […]
For those who haven’t heard – Customer Support service Zendesk was hacked this week with the hackers specifically scraping the email addresses of users of three major services – Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. […]
It is easy to confuse words that are similar in sound, spelling, or meaning. It only gets worse with social media slang, but with a bit of review it is also easy to clear up this confusion. Let’s check them out together right now. […]
So you made a page for your baby or your puppy dog, little booboo snookums? Well, now Mark Zuckerberg and co. are cracking down. Now that Facebook is public and having to wear its proverbial big boy shorts the gloves are coming off. The result? More than 83 million Facebook accounts are slated to be closed! That’s right… If you hold a spam account, are a fraud, fake, or just plain bogus account holder, or even if you have an [...]
Unless you have a team of content ninjas constantly backing you and providing you with some killer content then you have likely had this happen: you sit down to whip out some killer content for your website, fire up your post, and then sit there and blink at the cursor as you realize that writer’s block has you firmly in its grip. Come on, you have written about everything you can think of related to your business or interest. Why [...]
