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Category Archives: Business
Your Recipe For Business Disaster
SourceIt's thought that around fifty percent of all businesses fail within just five years of incorporation. You only have to look around you at the high street to see that making a success commercially is not that easy.Last year, so many of our we…
Getting Back to Basics: Why Brands are Getting it Wrong in Social Media
Question: What is your #1 advice for social media strategists and managers? Answer: Stop talking about social media Type “social media” into a Google search bar and you’ll find roughly about 4.7 billion results in .30 seconds. Next, try “social media conference.” You’ll see something along the lines of 1.2 billion results in .25 seconds. [...]
Internal social networks improve communication + collaboration when empowered to do so
I received an email from my friend at CIO Journal just as I boarded a United flight from Mexico City to San Francisco. He was on deadline and the topic was too good to miss. I’ve spent more than a fair amount of time studying and reporting on the social landscape as it pertained to [...]
Worried That You’re Boring Your Audience? Demand Interesting Questions!
During the Australian Open Tennis Championships in 2011, when she was ranked No. 1 in the world, Caroline Wozniacki got wind of the fact that the media found her press conferences boring because she always gave the same answers. “I find it quite funn…
Social Media is Still Uncharted Waters
When you are embarking on a journey whose destination is uncertain, you have to get comfortable with uncertainty. When it comes to social media, uncertainty has been, and for the foreseeable future, will necessarily be part of its use in your marketing equation. These are uncharted waters. Everyone is still learning. So, small businesses simply [...]
How To Avoid Going With A Business Communications Dinosaur – 3 Tips For Choosing A Telecoms Provider
SourceSo you're fed up with your current supplier, you can't understand their bills and whenever you try to contact them, you never seem to be able to speak to a real person. You get stuck in a never-ending loop because the option you require, …
Meetings Can Be Productive…If You Let Them Be
A lot of people think meetings are a huge waste of time. And they can be … if you let them be. The pessimists view of meetings: ”The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” ~ Thomas Sowell However, meetings can also be very productive. In fact, meetings [...]
At the Front of the Pack
It’s May, my favorite month in Indy. The temperature is perfect, the rain has stopped, the flowers are in bloom, and the cars are on the track. Yes, it is true, I am a race geek. I love the cars, the drivers, the back story and the history. I have a favorite spot high [...]
How Cloud Computing Is Transforming The Way We’ll Do Business Forever
Cloud-based services for business are transforming how companies do business, beginning at the core of their IT departments and fanning outward. Traditionally, organizations used privately owned computers over private networks. The Internet enabled a h…
