Success and self-mastery and overcoming anxiety
The word success means something different for each person. For me, success is not solely about accumulating wealth and money. It is about achieving what you desire and what brings you contentment. It could be taking care of your loved ones, pursuing your passion, or simply surviving the day. It is a unique journey that each of us embarks upon, and success is when we feel fulfilled with what we have accomplished. …
Working for yourself – It all begins and ends with you
Whether you are a business owners, entrepreneur, a career opportunist or someone looking to work for themselves to generate an income what you think in your head will ultimately influence your decisions and the way you operate. They go hand-in-hand. …
Social media, reading between the lines
Leaning more to having an introverted personality type, I pretty much live in the virtual world most of the time. The internet is a very real virtual world where people buy and sell and connect without meeting in person. I love reading comments on social media sites because they reveal so much about the way people interpret statements, opinions and content shared. Online communication is very different to offline communication. Strangely enough, online often tends to reveal more about a person than face-to-face meetings. Often, when meeting face-to-face, we have our guard up, worrying about how others are going to perceive …
What’s stopping you?
Some of us can be taught all the sales and marketing techniques in the world but if you have certain beliefs that are very real to you, these beliefs can stop you dead in your tracks. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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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