When I was 29, I had a full on midlife crisis sans the red convertible. I engaged in endless self reflection and mourned that my 20s were gone. I changed my hair and considered jumping from a plane but I was too busy with work to schedule it. I turned 30 and realized I had [...]
Mid-life Crisis Number 122 and What You Can Learn From It
Filed Under: Business and Career, Social Media Tagged With: business, Midlife, Small business, Social Media
5 Fatal Social Media Selling Mistakes
I spent several years in Sales Management roles in Corporate Healthcare and the lessons I learned have helped me in my professional and personal life. Yet, let’s face it the mere mention of sales makes many people cringe. Even the dictionary defines it in ways that leave you feeling in need of a hot soapy [...]
Filed Under: Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: business, Facebook, Marketing and Advertising, sales, Social Media, Twitter
Hit and Run Marketing
Image by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton via Flickr You know that you must promote your business to succeed. After all if no one knows you exist, you kind of don’t. You read in a forum post that Facebook has millions of users and that every business should have a presence. You create a fan page [...]
Filed Under: Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: business, Marketing, Marketing strategy, Small business, Social Media
Facebook, the Illusion of Privacy and Loud Mouth Quitters
Image via Wikipedia Sigh. I was not planning on writing a post on Facebook although I have been sharing extensively on the issue. Still, I was not going to step out on my own and say a word until Brad Shorr and Joanna Paterson double teamed me. Okay, they did not intentionally double team me. Unbeknownst [...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Online Communities, Privacy, Security, Social Media, Social network
Age of Conversation 3 – Available Now
Age of Conversation 3, published by new digital publishing company Channel V Books is now available through all major online retailers, as a Kindle e-book and will soon be available as an ePub for other digital readers. The book features 171 authors (including yours truly) discussing social media practice with bite sized lessons that instruct in [...]
Filed Under: Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: age of conversation, business, Drew McLellan, Gavin Heaton, Social Media
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