How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

How SMBs Are Using Social Media [ Infographic ]

Social media gives small businesses a chance to connect with prospective customers and increase their visibility in the community. For many small businesses, this is a rich opportunity, as you can see in the following infographic. From the below infographic we can observe the following: 9% of small business owners said a social media expert… Continue Reading

The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic (NOT A FAD!)

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  Think Social Media Is A Fad? Think again! I came across this amazing infographic yesterday and had to share it with everyone. The social media infographic highlights tons of facts / figures from various social media websites.  Services included are: Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr LinkedIn To Your Success, Dan Ross

Social Screening: How Companies Are Using Social Media to Hire & Fire Employees [ Infographic ]

How Companies Use Social Media to Screen Employees - Social Media Screening Infographic

Last Friday the U.S. released its employment numbers. In their numbers the government basically illustrated that the economic recovery from the 2008 financial crisis is very slow when compared to previous economic recoveries.  While big corporations are seeing their sales and profits improve workers aren’t getting hired, unemployment remains high and the average duration of… Continue Reading

How Companies Make Their Money & The Changing Face of The Internet – 6 Great Charts

How Apple Makes Money

I was surprised that my Google Adwords article was so well received with over 90 + retweets.  Clearly people are interested in Google and how companies are making money online. In today’s article I want to share some charts / graphs that I think every business owner should know. They show how some leading technology companies… Continue Reading

Making 2011 a Year of Success

Making 2011 a Year of Success

As always, I am reading the papers, watching CNBC and trying to get a pulse on the economic recovery going on since the financial crisis late in 2008. Small businesses are slowly but surely recovering. Large corporations are exporting their way back to growth since the U.S. Dollar is cheaper than one or two years… Continue Reading

11 Social Media Blogs Worth Following

Over the last few years I have found that many new features from the various social media networks goes unreported on.  In order to “keep in the loop” I highly recommend the following 11 websites if you want to keep abreast of the latest / greatest information happening in social media.  Since the features in… Continue Reading

Success – Not an Overnight Destination

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Over the last year I’ve come across some amazing examples of breathtaking work (articles, quotes, infographics) specifically on this topic.  I thought I would share them with everyone in one spot.  I will update this over time if I come across further examples but here is what I can share with everyone right now.  If… Continue Reading