The Web Curated!
Jennifer G. Hanford is the owner and managing director of j+ Media Solutions, which offers social and data solutions for businesses of all sizes. Jennifer is also a founding member of and posts regularly for Social Solutions Collective.
For some bloggers, it’s just about the writing. For the rest of us, it is so much more than just the writing. Many of us write in order to connect with people, either as an individual or a business. For the connectors, we feel downright depressed when we write the way we’re told to write…but [...]
“If you want more, you need to be more” ~ Jim Rohn In order to succeed in business, we must learn to be persuasive. Of course, there is a huge difference between being persuasive and being pushy. This post describes 7 ways to master the “art” of persuasion. The results speak for themselves when transactions [...]
Do you ever think about your name? Why you go by a certain name? Why it’s spelled the way it is? Or maybe why it’s pronounced the way it is? Or wonder what in the world some parents were thinking when they gave their children the names they did? What’s in a name? Obviously, a [...]
I signed up for LinkedIn back in 2007 – it was my very first experience on any of the major social media platforms! It remains one of my favorites, and I have endured many of its changes over the past couple of years. It’s a great place to be, and there are always ways [...]
Let’s be honest here – sometimes we all have mental blocks when deciding what to blog about. What to do? Caroline Baxter provides 10 great suggestions in her post to help boost your business blogging. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Stuck on what to blog about? Give your business blog a content makeover with these 10 simple business [...]
No matter who we are or what we do, content is part of our everyday lives. We watch it, we read it, we hear it – content is everywhere. Content is available 24/7/365 through every search engine and social media platform out there. Fortunately, tools are also everywhere to help people filter, organize and share [...]
Like the author of this post, Tom Chatfield, I am intrigued by the way some words become integrated into our vocabularies. He has put together a great list of ten words we gained due to their widespread popularity – and because of the internet. From avatars to geeks…and eight words in between – this is [...]
This post provides a beautiful example of using social media for good causes. In the wake of a horrific week of terrorism and accidental explosions, it was so nice to come across this message. Music soothes the soul…and this non-profit group, Instruments of Peace, has a lot to offer people in the Congo [...]
I think all businesses have stories to tell – but believe small businesses have much to gain from telling theirs. This post lists a few suggestions for how small businesses can use storytelling within their blogs. _____________________________________________________________________________ People of all ages enjoy a good story…but the act of good storytelling? Well, let’s just call [...]
Businesses have more opportunities to engage with their clients and prospects than ever before – thanks to social media. It’s possible to be too available though. Apparently, there’s a fine line between engaging with your audience and being overly present. This post suggests that businesses should think of social media as a way to communicate, but [...]
Joseph Ruiz of Strategic Marketing Solutions shares his insights on optimizing and integrating your business’ marketing efforts in order to be everywhere your prospects are looking. Consumers are now hyper-connected in ways we never would have imagined a few years ago. This trend will most likely continue as more people and more perform searches via [...]
I admire creative people – especially the ones who constantly come up with brilliant ideas with seemingly little effort. It turns out more of us possess the potential for creative thinking than we give ourselves credit for. Do your best ideas come to you in the middle of the night or first thing in the [...]
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