Posts Tagged "facebook"

Entrepreneurs, Companies, & Job Seekers: Become a Go-To Source of Value

Posted by on Feb 18, 2009 in networking | 1 comment

Tweet Whether you are a job seeker, entrepreneur, or company the first step in engaging with your targeted audience is to become a go-to source of valuable information. The idea is to stand apart from your competition and be relied upon and trusted by your network. The best method to begin this process is to understand how to find information that will make a difference to your network and establish you as that go-to source. The first step...

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Look Who’s Joined Facebook

Posted by on Feb 17, 2009 in facebook | 4 comments

Tweet If you are someone who thinks of Facebook as strictly a gathering place for college students and the uber young adult, look again. Earlier this month Facebook announced that its fastest growing segment of new users in recent months is women aged 55+. According to Hitwise, there has been a big shift in audience demographics over just the past year. While users aged 18 to 24 represented a 42% share of the Facebook audience in January...

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Top 25 Social Media “Networks”: Entrepreneurs and Job Seekers’ Resource

Posted by on Feb 12, 2009 in social media and resources | 2 comments

Tweet If you are an entrepreneur or job seeker one of the best ways to network, market, and gain audience for your product or service(s) is to leverage the power of social media networks. The following is a list of the top 25 social media “networks” as ranked by traffic (visits per month) in a great retrospective article by Andy Kazeniac of Compete.com “Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over the Top Spot, Twitter Climbs.” This is a...

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Job Seekers Heed Robert Scoble’s “If You Are Laid Off, Here’s How to Socially Network”

Posted by on Jan 19, 2009 in employment | 0 comments

Tweet Robert Scoble is one of the most successful bloggers with his Scobleizer blog, technology evangelists, and well respected resources in Silicon Valley. His article “If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network” is a call to arms and a blue print for EVERY job seeker. Please heed his warning and take the steps Robert outlines. And by the way, many of these steps are steps we have already identified, written...

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Job Seekers Strategy: Make the Hiring Manager Happy

Posted by on Jan 9, 2009 in employment | 0 comments

Tweet Silicon Valley star Guy Kawasaki did not intend for his chapter “The Art of Driving Your Competition Crazy” in Reality Check to be job seeker’s advice; yet the main theme is vital for any job seeker’s success. The chapter outlines 8 steps to drive your competition crazy aimed at helping entrepreneurs and corporations understand how to win at the art of business.The most valuable theme and step is “Focus...

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