Foursquare social networking has launched a “FourSquare For Business” featured pages to allow local businesses or international brands to gain easier visibility for their customers or clients. They will create a page, even for businesses without web sites, to connect via FourSquare and highlight their products and services on the site and through the application. [...]
If you are preparing to begin job searching, the better prepared you are, the more likely it will be for you to land the job that you want. One of the most essential parts of job searching is to get off to a good start with networking. You might like to know what kinds of [...]
Mastering the art of effective networking marks the difference between merely successful entrepreneurs and captains of industry – the better you are at networking, the more power you wield. Networking serves many purposes, from building your customer base to providing and receiving needed resources from contacts in the business community, and anyone planning on growing [...]
Once upon a time, everyone who was anyone had a social secretary, a person dedicated solely to maintaining the boss’s personal network. Social secretaries made appointments, cultivated the Rolodex, managed correspondence and generally kept their plugged-in patrons up to date with the goings-on of all their friends and associates. The heyday of that profession has [...]
Throughout history, fortunes have been made by people whose first big break came from a friend of a friend or a close contact. Long before computers and the internet, there was another way to make business connections – networking. By networking with others, you have the ability to open opportunities and make connections that could [...]
It’s hard to believe that the trend to establish an online presence for businesses has been going strong for over 10 years now. Nowadays, if you have a small business and you want to be more successful online and ultimately more profitable, you have to have a website that looks trustworthy, easy to use and [...]
I read Internet marketing and Internet business material continually, and one of the most frequent phrases I see can be summed up as: “Provide value to your prospective customers.” What does this mean? The first thing it means is that marketing today on the Web is not the same as advertisements on television or in [...]
How to Get Followers on Twitter Getting followers on Twitter requires a different strategy than on Facebook or LinkedIn. Of course, on all three social networking sites you want people who are interested in what you have to offer and people from whom you can learn. But on Facebook and LinkedIn you extend an invitation [...]
Community for Solo Professionals – Who We Are, What We Need I’ve spent much of the past six months traveling for the sole purpose of meeting and connecting with solo professionals all over the U.S. (and a few overseas, as well). Here’s what I know right now. We are the strength of economic recovery. We [...]
Are You Leveraging the Power of LinkedIn? LinkedIn is an online social network of experienced professionals from around the world with over 37 million members in over 200 countries. Executives from all the Fortune 500 companies and well known experts, authors and leaders are all LinkedIn members, so the question is, are you? Do you [...]
