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Branding Your Business on Facebook - Using Hashtags
Every business and organization needs to have a presence on Facebook, but the content needs to reach your target audience. Here are a few tips to expand the reach of your posts.
By Dan McGinnis7 years ago in Journal
How to Start Your Career in Finance
Do you feel stuck in a dead end career? Don't settle! There are other options that will help you live a comfortable life and grow as a person. When you are looking for a new career option, there are many different directions you can try to take. For those that have an interest in business or mathematics, one great option to consider would be to pursue a career in finance. Those that are in the finance industry will have plenty of professional opportunities available to them, many of which can provide them with great job satisfaction and overall compensation. If you are looking to start a career in finance, there are a variety of tips that you should follow to get started.
By Paisley Hansen7 years ago in Journal
Making a Living Online (and Offline)
If you're reading this, then you are most likely fall into one of two categories: You are either curious and want to learn how to slowly start to make a living using social media; or you just want to see what rubbish I can come up with just waste your time.
By Celine Dior7 years ago in Journal
How to Stay Creative
Creativity is what makes the human mind. We are constantly finding new inspirations, be it on our way to work or school or even sitting in McDonald's, eating a big mac and staring out of the window. Finding that one thing that makes the connection spark is often something spontaneous. We forget that creativity is born from anything and everything and because of that we try too hard to find it, even when it's staring at us right in the face.
By Jee P7 years ago in Journal
Take Your Ideas for Blog Posts to the Next Level with This 10 Minute Technique
Do you struggle with ideas for blog posts? I know I do sometimes! Some days the titles and topics come pouring in faster than I can even write them down and I create 10+ drafts on my Evernote account.
By StephanieCristi7 years ago in Journal
5 Tips for a More Successful CV
1. Keep it simple Far too many people still believe that a CV is where you need to impress your prospective employer. It is not. Now we are in the age of digital everything, your CV plays a different role depending on what industry you’re jumping in to. The first blanket rule is to keep it simple. Your CV is read for the content it provides, the information about you and whether you are somebody the firm wishes to interview.
By Dominic Monaghan7 years ago in Journal
Branding Your Business on Facebook - Utilizing Search Engines
There are lots of social media platforms that are popular today, but forgetting the immense popularity of Facebook is a strategic error for any business. Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and Twitter all have their place in any successful, comprehensive marketing plan, but Facebook is the modern day version of the Yellow Pages. Every business needs a presence there.
By Dan McGinnis7 years ago in Journal
Branding Your Business on Facebook – Proper Page Creation. Top Story - September 2018.
Facebook is still an incredible place to market your business, your brand, your event... really anything. Successful online promotion requires a bit more than just creating a post and hoping for the best. There are a few easily learned techniques that can help build your online presence and your "brand" more quickly and with greater success.
By Dan McGinnis7 years ago in Journal
10 Steps to Creating Characters
So you've decided to write a novel. You've got the story in your head, and you're ready to write. You've put your pen to paper and you get ready to introduce your characters.
By Angi Bartlett7 years ago in Journal
Ring!!! Your Side Hustle Is Calling
Go and get your hustle on! 37% of Americans are currently engaged in a side hustle, and 51% of millennials have an occasional side hustle, according to a study by Bankrate. Looks like I am not the only person who believes in the need to get your hustle on. This year many people took the risk and dove deeper into something they are passionate about, decided to no longer wait, and are using their 9 to 5 gigs as a launching pad. What about you? Many of us have or are still doing that one thing we saw our parents do. You get up every day, grab your coffee, take your commute and end up in a cubicle or office (if you are lucky), for the traditional job—but you find yourself daydreaming about the thing you prefer to be doing. What about that one hobby that consumes you? Yep…that thing; many of us call that a “side hustle.” Side hustles make life interesting, they keep you energized, and one day we hope to make them our daily destiny, but how?
By TJ Neal7 years ago in Journal
How to Plot Like a Rock Star
The object of writing is to tell a compelling story and sell your book! For the beginning writer this may be a dream that seems unrealistic. If you’ve done other kinds of writing—magazine articles, news reporting, technical writing—you know how to express yourself in clear, simple English. You know how to write words that inform, and maybe even words that amuse or entertain. But now, you’re faced with a new challenge: writing words that excite and engage your reader in a fiction story.
By Melissa Saulnier7 years ago in Journal
How to Improve Your Online Job Applications
“Back in my day, we would walk-in, hand in our resumes, and speak with managers face-to-face!” Believe it or not but millennials will probably be the last generation to have experienced this method of job search as a norm. As you can imagine, one benefit of this approach is that if you didn't have a strong resume, you could still charm employers with your personality and communication skills. This way you could at least score yourself an interview.
By Brandesha Sinclair7 years ago in Journal