Regardless of the social network you choose, there seem to be some similar, high-level strategies that apply to getting new followers on every network—Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you’re looking to build your profile and add new instagram followers,…
Owning and operating your own business, generally means you end up wearing a lot of hats. You’re not only the director of pushing and creating all content, but the one who markets it, organizes getting paid, communicates with clients, and…
With the right tactics, growing and developing a niche community is often easier than building a broad and multi-faceted community. When you have a niche, you already know who should be in your community and what to search for. A niche provides…
I have compiled a list of 10 tools I believe can make a big difference in social media marketing strategy. Chances are you are using some of them already; maybe you will find some more to add today or even…
As a business owner I know how hard that critical first year can be. It’s a bare knuckle fight out there and the name of the game for the first year is simple: survival. Having started out with a PC,…
You’ve come up with a great idea for a business, but you’re not ready to roll yet. Before you go any further, the next step is figuring out just who your niche market is. There are two basic markets you…
Maybe you’ve finished developing and creating your product or service. What’s next? It’s time to get your startup product seen by customers. This is where many startups fail. This is where thousands, if not millions of dollars are wasted in…
Someone famous once advised, “Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else’s brain.” With regard to business, books are possibly the most underrated source of information. How to blogs, motivational twitter accounts, and TED Talks come to mind. To be fair, most business books are not high-quality. The pop-business section of Barnes and Noble survives…
To promote a business can be a draining full time job. You’ve probably been inundated with the good old “promote your brand on Facebook, it’ll be easy!” shtick in the past. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and so on are obvious resources for promoting your brand, but if you don’t have the right footprint in social…
