Let’s face it; event planning has never been easy for the entrepreneur. With that said, the sheer power and rapid growth of social media platforms has forever changed the way in which we all approach the event planning process. Many business owners are still getting to grips with just how beneficial the likes of Facebook and Twitter can be for their business, reputation and customer base to grow...
In a nutshell, procrastination is putting off important tasks that a person should be focusing on at the moment. If you have been or are constantly behaving in this manner, you are just one of the many people with procrastination issues. The fact that there is a majority of people doing the same thing does not make it less of a problem. Being an entrepreneur or a freelancer is a difficult job to...
What are the biggest mistakes you can make on your website? Is it that you don’t have a list capture mechanism? Is it that you don’t have that magical sidebar widget? Or that social sharing feature? Or the viral lock plug-in? Or that shopping cart or membership site function? What about that carousel widget? Only if it could be that simple. Only if we could solve all our website woes with a...
As an entrepreneur or a solo-preneur, you’re faced with an uphill battle. You need to find a way to stand out from the rest of the people in your industry with something unique and exciting. You have this idea, a brand and a story that you want to tell the world, but how do you bring it to them? The answer is social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, these platforms and more are teeming with...
Zak Mustapha is the Man! He reached out to over two hundred bloggers, entrepreneurs, influencers and experts within their industries, and asked them one simple question: What’s the biggest mistake they’ve ever made (or seen others make) when it comes to ‘Influencer Marketing’? 217 of them responded with insights, wisdom, and nuggets of gold when it comes to smart marketing, and...
Nearly all B2B marketers rely on content marketing as an effective technique to promote their brands. However, 60% of them are still facing serious challenges to produce engaging content on a consistent basis. The question is: are they misunderstanding the term content? Content marketing involves much more than writing and promoting blog posts. Written content is great, especially when it’s well...
A professional sports team could survive without its mascot. After all, Mr. Met doesn’t win a World Series. But could you say the same about a well-known brand? Brands like Coca Cola and Old Spice stay in business because of their products, sure, but often it’s precisely their brand mascots that tend to keep their names in the limelight and keep people talking about their ads...
Sometimes, publicity stunts are necessary tools that can be used to increase the outreach of your brand. The reasoning and logic behind them are… the more attention your company or organization receives, the more supporters you will gain. It’s not necessarily poor logic either. Over the years, there have been a number of publicity stunts that have helped companies increase awareness...
Whether you call them “Generation C” or you prefer to use the popular moniker “millennials,” young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 are a consumer force to be reckoned with. They have a buying power of $1.3 trillion dollars in annual spending, according to BCG. Being the first generation to grow up with the Internet, the millennial generation is more receptive to businesses that engage in two...
As a writer, there are only a few things I can’t live without when it comes to plying my trade. My Macbook with WiFi, Scrivener, and a hefty dose of morning coffee about sums it up. Honestly, I use other tools as well, but those are my do or die biggies. Especially coffee. No coffee, no workee. I know that’s not the case for everyone though, so here are a few more ideas on some of the...
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