I’m marketing my business online using social media but its not working
Here you are, a business owner who wants to use the internet – specifically social media – to market your business. You’ve been hearing all these wonderful stories about how great it is to use social media and how so many are generating business from it. So why is it not working for you? Social media is a tool that you use like any other marketing medium, newspaper, radio, magazine or flyer. The difference is that it’s a two way communication tool so you cannot treat it the same way you would when placing an advert in the newspaper. …
4 Key questions to ask before hiring a web developer
Someone I met recently had a dreadful experience with the company they hired to design their website. Sadly, this person I met is not alone. The thing is unless you know what to look out for you can easily sign up to something that does not serve your purpose and may result in a website you are not happy with. Generally what happens after that is you go and find someone else having to spend even more money and in a lot of instances having to start all over and you might not be happy with that result …
How you can manage your time and keep up in today’s fast moving world
Quite a few of us are swimming frantically around at the moment trying to keep our heads above the water. We have so much going on in both our business lives and personal lives right now that it has become a challenge to keep up. This is not happening only for small business but it is happening at a global level. I thought I'd share this article with you on how Japan's Earthquake has tilted the planet's axis and sped up the earth's spin by a micro second. Scientist Greg Braden talks about it here in this video …
How social media helped us catch a thief
We often fail to fully appreciate the extraordinary links created by the vast network that is social media. We blog, we post, we comment – not realizing we are laying indelible prints of our private lives on the world’s cyber highways. Imprints that can be tracked as easily as distress flares on the ocean. This incredible story of what happen to my mom and her husband Rupert on a tropical island in the Philippines is an example of the power of the internet to connect – proving itself a communicative tool par excellence. My mom, (Erleen) and Rupert had been …
Would you like to take control of your financial future but don’t know how?
How to give your money great leadership inside your business and your life. Many of us struggle when it comes to figuring out how we are going to make sure we have enough money in the next few months, the next few years and how on earth are we going to retire? I’ve always been a very good saver but over the years I’ve never quite figured out how to make it work for me in a way that helps me to earn an additional monthly income. I’ve also had to dip into my savings over the years which has …
6 Ways to improve your ranking and visibility to generate leads
Since the inception of social media we've seen a huge change in how people use the internet. On average every second 8 new people are signing up to get onto the internet. Daily more and more people are finding it easier just to connect online to save time. Giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Google Plus, LinkedIn are constantly evolving - and to keep up we need to adapt to these changes. As a Social Media Manager, and with considerable experience in the virtual world, I recommend 6 tips to improve your ranking and visibility in …
How your mind is stopping you from achieving your goals
Do you find yourself going round and round in circles? The same run of the mill stuff, wishing your life could be different. I have a friend who was stuck in a job she hated, going about life stuck in a rut because she has bills to pay. She would moan and complain about how awful things were and how bored she was with her life. She would moan about the long hours she had to work and year after year she would sing the same tune, wishing she could start her own business. She …
Why social media is not a time waster in business
This week I decided to take a slightly different route as I feel it is time to give a big shout out to a fantastic group of business people who I met online using social media or met at a networking event or are one of my clients who have come together in an online community group called The Launchpad. This blog is to share with you the importance of planting seeds and building social currency for when you need it most and how social media as a communication tool is a benefit to your business and can be the lifeblood …
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