Networking
By Timothy Thomas There are very clear similarities between dating and marketing. Both rely on the same basic understanding – every interaction should improve the relationship. If you focus your energy on making your relationship great with every partner, business or otherwise, you are bound to succeed. Not everyone understands the basics of good dating [...]
I was recently asked one of those questions that really make you go hmmm! The question was to do with how marketing was like a sport. I did not have much of a response at the time. However, after thinking on it for a while I started to see some similarities, especially where business networking [...]
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Come see Guy Kawasaki and Charlene Li at The Blogging Strategies Summit in San Francisco on June 14 – 16th! Global Strategic Management Institute has gathered the best and brightest speakers in the blogosphere to present emerging strategies, tactics and case studies in the successful use of blogs to increase organic search engine optimization, [...]
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The micro blogging platform of Twitter is extremely popular – so much so that there are now 200 million users worldwide. The sad truth is however that not nearly enough of these users are using the platform to its full potential. This is fine if you are an account holder who just happens to quite [...]
Over the last several years, we have seen a dramatic shift in the concept of a “career” as more and more people have been downsized, right sized, outsourced, and the like. A career isn’t just vertical anymore; it’s how horizontal and in many cases, very much a zigzag. What do you do if you’re [...]
Sarang Gupta offers some great advice on how to avoid wasting your time with employers that may be unscrupulous without any regard to a candidate’s or consultant’s fuel burned – currently at over $4/gallon in many cities. Let’s read some of his tips: “Interview the company”. It’s always been a good idea when job-seeking, even [...]
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This past week, we saw elected representative in Wisconsin abdicate their responsibilities and walk off of the job when things didn’t go the way they wanted them to. As I’m sure everyone will agree – no matter which sideof the dispute you’re on – this was not a responsible way to handle a conflict in [...]
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This morning I had an interesting conversation with Eugene Mandel, Co-Founder of MustExist, Inc. Tell me about your background? I studied computer science in Israel and have had a couple of key positions in some US-based start-ups. I was co-founder of a social mobile startup Jaxtr and our claim to fame was a viral [...]
What is MyCollegeLoop and how does it work? MyCollegeLoop is a social networking site for college students so they can look for college parties and events near their campus. Basically, MyCollegeLoop uses an integrated Google map that lets you create and look for parties in the map itself so anyone can see where and when [...]
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Twitter is still a very new medium, and one which people haven’t really gotten to grips with just yet. There is plenty of talk about how to build up followers, and you can even buy followers by the thousand… So really, if all you want is to have as many followers as possible, you don’t [...]
