#1: They believe. Successful people believe they are adding value to your day, on and off social media. My Forbes colleague David DiSalvo opened his very popular post: The 10 Reasons Why We Fail with a Yoda and Luke conversation: Luke: I can’t believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail. If the Yoda reference doesn’t do it for […]
Instagram is quickly becoming the number one social media marketing tool for entrepreneurs and businesses. Therefore, it’s crucial for individuals and business organizations to make sure that they are fully utilizing this platform. This includes making sure that they retain the followers that they get. Yes, figuring out how to stop losing followers is a […]
Not many people understood just how big a deal the internet would be when it first emerged. Even fewer would have predicted how it would forever change how we consume information and how it would reshape the modern world. Then came social media. Social networking sites again became a pivotal moment in the growth of […]
Any marketer who would reduce Instagram to simply a photo sharing app will be losing out on incredible opportunities that only this social media networking site can offer. Today, this platform has more than a billion active users, and the numbers keep growing, often exceeding expert projections. Compared to Facebook, Instagram users are 10 times […]
Twitter, to many, is a ‘hard-nut to crack’, they just don’t get it. In simple term, Twitter ‘forces’ you to learn how to communicate and share insightful ideas in tweets, which are no more than 140 characters. Actually, Twitter is the ‘simplest’ of the social networks. The above opening quote is an excerpt from an earlier […]
Every once in a while a question pops into the mind of a social media manager. What types of social media content would lead to high conversion and engagement? What would make the target audience like it, re-tweet, share it and subscribe to the page? If all these questions consume you too, then, it’s time […]
Let’s face it. People have been stepping up their posting game in most, if not all, social media platforms. Instagram is definitely no exception, more so that it is now the biggest and most popular photo-sharing app with over 1 billion users worldwide. Standing out from a billion users is an impossible feat. However, standing […]
Social recruiting can be defined as “harnessing the evolution of Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools to communicate, engage, inform, and recruit our future talent”. The term has become a buzz phrase used throughout the HR world today. As the use of social media by companies continue to expand, companies are increasingly turning to social recruiting to source candidates […]
Social media can level the playing field between industry leaders and upstarts, between multinational corporation executives and small-business owners, making peers of all participants. Yet appearances can be deceiving. To borrow from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, all social-media users are equal, but some are more equal than others. So what makes the difference between a following of 500 and […]
There are over 800 million users on Instagram, yet, it’s harder than ever to get your Instagram account noticed. What gives? Well, there are millions of users pumping out quality content like it’s their day job (it is), leaving your Instagram account in the dust. Don’t worry, though. There are plenty of accounts for all […]
