Business
How To Use Social Media For Recruitment
Social media is a great tool to help you get your name out there and demonstrate competency in your subject of interest. For example, a voice actor can leverage social media to share their demo clips, connect with industry professionals, and build on their skills as they send and receive feedback from their community. Social [...]
How To Use Social Media For Recruiting
Social media has become one of the most widely used tools for recruiters and head hunters in recent years. Part of the reason for this is the look into someone’s personal life their social profile gives that you don’t normally find written in the pages of a resume or during a typical interview. Finding out [...]
How to Use Social Media for Sales
Social media and their associated sites can be great platforms for generating sales. Depending on your product, this new business medium may serve well as your primary market resource in terms of finding potential buyers and bringing them the information they need to make their decision to purchase. Here are some tips on how to [...]
How To Use Social Media For Advertising
Advertising and marketing go hand-in-hand while being two very different areas of business. While marketing works to position the company for success, advertising is done with the goal in mind of getting the brand out there and promoting specific announcements, products, or services. Social media can be effectively used for advertising, and has been in [...]
How To Use Social Media For Business
Being in business usually means having to deal with frequent expenses. You’ve got to deal with taxes, payroll, office fees, and advertising among countless other expected and unexpected expenses. Thankfully, social media has provided a platform to help fulfill several otherwise costly needs of doing business. In addition, a proper social media policy can open [...]
How To Use Social Media For Marketing
Social media and marketing are two subjects so frequently paired that some might consider it a match made in heaven. Whether users of these platforms realize it or not, they’re participating in marketing at some level whether they’re inviting friends to parties or spreading the word about how great their newest gadget is. The idea [...]
Is Charging for Information Right or Wrong?
Recently, Google+ has been the topic of conversation – ya know, part of that same conversation people have claimed was on Twitter (yet, impossible to follow due to Twitter not having a UX to support conversations). I’ve been having a blast with my Plus profile – interspersing fun and functional, day in and day out. [...]
How to Make Money with Your Voice Online
Do you have a decent microphone and a unique voice? Have you considered possibly giving voiceover work a try? There are many ways to make money with your voice online, and most of them don’t even require you to leave your home at all. First, this isn’t a good idea for everyone. It is harder [...]
The Advantages of Brick and Mortar Stores
About a week ago, I released a video in which I explained my ongoing issues with Best Buy. Since then, Best Buy has contacted me regarding the steps they’ve taken to correct the error regarding the coupon I was unable to have honored at the time I purchased a cable modem. Brandon, a member of [...]
Why Community is Important
Kevoc, a member of the LockerGnome community, has a knack for recording me during times when the words just don’t want to come out quite the way I expect them to. He seems to know just the right time to capture these little gems that don’t *always* appear on the YouTube channel. Thankfully, he’s compiled [...]
Will an Internet Sales Tax Hurt Online Retailers?
The so-called “Amazon” Tax has become a huge national story as the online retail giant sent out messages to their affiliates in California announcing the end of the affiliate program there. Even though this new law has “Amazon” as a nickname, any online merchant with an affiliate program falls under its jurisdiction. It was their [...]
Why Transparency is Important in Business
The days of being able to easily cover up internal and external problems in business are quickly coming to a close. Customer service issues are becoming public relations problems as people are taking their complaints to social networks instead of (or in addition to) a more traditional customer service department. People today like seeing something [...]
Why Customer Service is Important in Business
I’ve been a Best Buy shopper for as long as I can remember. At one point, I even worked there. Recently, there have been a few red flags raised in reference to some of the bad customer service decisions they’ve made recently when I’ve gone in to make purchases. The most recent example of this [...]
Things Don’t Always Go According to Plan
If there is one universal truth we have all encountered at one point or another, it’s that things rarely actually go as planned. After over 3,500 YouTube videos and countless hours of live streaming, this has certainly been the case more often than not. A lot of work goes in to each and every thing [...]
Myspace Sale is Nearing Completion
News Corp. has reportedly narrowed their list of possible bidders down to two remaining front-runners vying for majority shares in the struggling social network. Myspace, which sold to News Corp. for $580 million USD five years ago is for sale once again, this time in the much lower $20-$30 million dollar range. This is a [...]
