Whoever has ever said freelancing is “easy” should be strung up by their toes and dangled over a balcony somewhere, mouth stuffed with oversized gooey marsh mallows to muffle the screams. (I know, I have weird notions of torture.) Those individuals clearly don’t know Jack. (Or even Jill for that matter.) Seriously though, freelancing isn’t as easy as it may sound. It’s not “Oh lemme just hang...
Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, in my admittedly humble opinion, have always been the social media platforms that I get the most mileage out of. And out of all the ones I would probably deem “most useful” in a customer service type capacity, I would have to probably dub Twitter the winner. Apparently other businesses agree with me. There are quite a few big brands that have...
While I’m certainly no expert, I’ve recently been reading up on POP displays and potentially using them in your brand strategy. You can walk into just about any Walmart, Winn Dixie, or <insert retail store of choice here> and find yourself exposed to what’s called a point of purchase display, whether you realized what you were looking at or not. According to BrandingStrategyInsider.com, a...
Howdy BGB’ers. So. On average, five tweets per second contain a Vine link, according to research from tech company Unruly. Consider Vine reports more than 40 million registered users and parent company Twitter reports more than 241 million active monthly users, and you can imagine the potential reach of those six-second videos. Like, woah. YouTube gets more than 1 billion unique visitors...
This is a handy infographic courtesy of WhoIsHostingThis.com. Obviously LinkedIn can be a valuable social platform in successful business building. But are you using it effectively? If at all? My guess is that you (like me) could stand to learn a trick or two on increasing the effectiveness of your LI efforts in the least amount of time. So keep a readin’ and let me know if you found this...
Products and services may determine how customers value businesses, but those companies may never get a shot at their target clientele without an effective brand strategy. Ouch. Harsh huh. Brands have plenty of work to do in a competitive market. Not only must they establish and promote themselves to the right customers, they must do so in a way that differentiates them from competing brands...
This is a guest post courtesy of Akshay. (Who by the way has the coolest name on the planet.) If you have any questions, please feel free to drop them in the comments below. How does a devoted family man turn into a cold-blooded, sadistic sociopath? The transformation of Walter White into drug kingpin Heisenberg enthralled millions of viewers because no other show has so brilliantly captured such...
This is a guest post courtesy of Kate with tips on things you might want to consider before diving headlong into a branding campaign. It’s important to have a destination in mind whenever you embark on any journey. And branding is (at least in my book) ultimately a journey of discovery, whether you are trying to build a personal brand to platform off of, or a business brand designed to...
This is a guest post courtesy of Hannah, with some timely tips for launching a new business or product successfully. Ya’ll make her feel welcome now. 😉 Those who have ever tried will understand the difficulty in launching a new business. You might have a range of fantastic and original products to offer, but unless people know you exist, your business doesn’t stand a chance. Smaller...
Is your business in need of a Red Bull? Wait, scratch that, I think I’m in need of a Red Bull. This has been an exhausting week, let me tell ya. Alas, I won’t bore you with the deets, so let’s talk biz. And yes, your business may very well be in need of a Red Bull too. (Good thing they make that stuff, eh? hehe) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 55 percent of...
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