Finding a job in this economy is really tough. You don’t need to be told that if you are out of work or just graduating from college. You know it is a struggle to find that job. What if you had some ways to think outside the box (a term I really hate, but it [...]
myFiveBest.com: This website describes itself as “User Submitted Trivia and Opinion.” Users post their own lists of “five” things, which range from the serious (”Five Countries That Censor Your Internet”) to the strange (”Five Animals That Have Been Used as Weapons”). Lesson: When you can’t create … curate Read more: http://www.bnet.com/blog/career-advice/5-ways-to-write-a-really-useful-list/1581#ixzz1Q71xFwF9 bnet.com promotes itself as [...]
Forget about Facebook! If you’re a business person, you need to be on LinkedIN!!! This social networking service can help your business more than you can possibly know. Exchange ideas, ask questions, and get market intelligence that can’t be found on a web site where you have a virtual farm. If you think LinkedIN is [...]
If you are in business, you have to promote yourself. However, advertising for your business might prove to be more expensive than you can afford. So how does one compensate for lack of big advertising dollars, yet still get the message out to potential clients and customers? What do you do to progress your business [...]
There is a lot of blogging software out on the market. I’ve tried quite a few of them: Blogger, Typepad, Moveable Type and Gawker. Of all of these blogging platforms, I think that WordPress is the best of them all. WordPress.org’s software is considered by many gurus of the market to be the blog software [...]
Everybody in business has some sort of web site today. However, does anybody know your business even exists? You probably are feeling pretty good about yourself right now, because you watched The Social Network and got your company on Facebook with a fan page. However, if you are trying to grow your business, Facebook might [...]
Twitter is one of the great social media sites. I love it because it fits almost everyone’s lifestyle. It’s as fast as 140 characters and you can use it in your personal life or for business. Here is a list of five tips that you can use to improve your Twitter skills. To read more [...]
The goal of many bloggers is to make money with their blog. Like anything else, you really have to work at making this happen. This is something that did not come naturally to me and I struggled with it for two years before any real profit started to happen. My initial goal was to just [...]
With the economy the way that it is, it is no wonder that the media has decided to come up with catch phrases or “buzz words” on the situations people are enduring. It is how these terms make it into our lexicon and become mainstream. The terms listed below have been coined within the last [...]
I came by this interesting video today. It contains a lot of tongue-in-cheek talking, but once you get past the monotonous guy, it is delivering a fantastic message that you need to hear if you are trying to sell product in your business. It explains that your sales are directly related to the personal experience [...]