How a Twitter Chat Can Help Your Personal Brand
Twitter chats are a great way to engage with your audience and customers and help you create brand awareness. Based on particular topics, Twitter chats enable you to reach a wider audience and discuss particular issues that are of relevance to the audience.
As a creator and moderator of a popular Twitter chat, I have …
Selling in the Summer
“Business is always slower in the summer,” is the common phrase among sales professionals and business owners from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Unless you are in the tourism business, chances are your summer months are a little slower in the way of sales. This can also be a drastic rationalization technique by professionals when …
11 Ways to Overcome Service-Based Branding Challenges
I have a service-based business. What is one branding challenge I will face that is unique to service businesses? How do I overcome it?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a …
Establishing An Improved Clientele
Difficult and rude clients have the ability to make you wish you never began your business. But deep down you know that’s not true; instead, you recognize a need to alter your course of action. The following strategies are written to assist you with putting wind in your sales!
1. Increase energy to make the …
Interview Questions Reveal Employer’s Concerns
You can address an employer’s concerns via your interview answers only if you understand where the concerns are coming from and what the employer wants to explore. Interview questions can be grouped by the interviewer’s needs. So, what are such needs? Similar to a personal investment, employers need to do their due diligence in order …
How to Pitch Yourself to Employers
While most job seekers know how to generally market themselves to employers, they don’t always know how to effectively pitch themselves to employers.
When you submit your cover letter and resume, an employer spends about six seconds scanning it to see if you’re even qualified for the position. In these six seconds, you need to …
Why a Bowling Pin Boy Beats an MBA
Millennials are getting a bad reputation for helicopter parents, ADD and lack of commitment at work. Plenty of Millennials disprove that stereotype. However, almost every employer and manager I speak with – some Millennials themselves – worry aloud about the work ethic and engagement of this generation as a whole.
In Sunday’s New York Times, …
Troubleshooting LinkedIn for a Better Networking Experience
How to tackle your three biggest LinkedIn problems.
LinkedIn is the primary social network for business networking and career advancement. However, while many professionals have signed up on the network, I constantly find users expressing many of the same issues with the network. What is the value of LinkedIn Endoresements and can I get rid …
What’s Irritating to Others When Using Video?
In recent years I’ve polled hundreds of people about their work in the digital age. This week, it’s what’s irritating about video?
When people:
Don’t acknowledge others on the other side of the monitor. Constantly look bored or continuously check their cellphone. Don’t speak up. Use cellphones to call which is usually a poorer connection.…4 Steps in Creating Your Video Interview Environment
Have you had a video interview? If you have not been in a video interview yet, just wait. This could be done via Skype, Google Hangouts, or a variety of other platforms. The key to a successful video interview is to look and, more importantly, sound your best.
Room SelectionThe room environment where you …