5 Marketing Strategies that Don’t Change
Today’s post is by David Chapman – Director of Marketing at Webrageous. Here’s David: Musicals never go out of fashion, because the formula is well understood. It is tried and tested and everyone knows what to expect when they sit down to watch a good musical. The audience is given what they want. The marketing [...]
Best of thoughtLEADERS 2011: The Awesomest Posts Ever
This year is almost over so it’s time for the year in review list of the BEST posts we’ve published in 2011. It’s time for the 2011 edition of The Figgies (here are the 2010 and 2009 editions). This is an annual event here at the thoughtLEADERS Blog. Here’s how it goes: this list is [...]
You Need to Hire a Social Media Expert. Now.
Today’s guest blogger is David Chapman from Webrageous. You can learn more about him and his work at the end of the post. When the world of social media began to develop only a few years ago, networking online was all about connecting with friends, sharing personal likes and dislikes, finding out about new things [...]
4 Tips for Letting Facebook Tell You What to Do
Many times in our lives we’re faced with situations where we have trouble making a decision. We noodle it over in our heads but never seem to achieve a conclusion. Or sometimes we quickly reach an answer but have a nagging doubt as to whether it’s correct or not. There’s an easy way to resolve [...]
How to Handle When Someone Else Takes Credit for Your Work
We’ve all had that experience where we work really hard on something and instead of getting recognized for our contribution, we have to sit there and choke back bile when someone else takes credit for the work. It’s infuriating to think about how hard you worked and how much effort you put into a project [...]
Yoda’s Three Steps to Achieving Your Goals
Life goals. Bucket lists. “One day I’ll…” We all have dreams and goals. The biggest difference between people who achieve them and people who don’t is the act of actually DOING. Do you have goals and things you want to achieve? Professional aspirations? Personal bucket list items? Let me ask this – what’s stopping you [...]
How to be a Networking Disaster
You would think with all the platforms out there that make networking so easy that people would be better at it. Unfortunately bad behavior still runs rampant and I get to see more than my fair share of networking implosions. There are a few key areas you need to royally screw up if you want [...]
3 Lessons on Using Social Media for Your Business, Courtesy of Your Local Mechanic
Today’s guest blogger is Tanveer Naseer. You can read about him at the bottom of this post. If you haven’t read his blog yet, you should go read it and subscribe to it by clicking here. Enjoy! The start of a new year often fosters discussions over what will be the key events to occur [...]
Join the Revolution! End the Meetings!
As you folks know I occasionally recruit experts to come share their perspectives on this blog. Lately I have a hot button (and it launches a nuke) for meetings (for example, check out this post on the topic). So who better to have share some thoughts on how to fix the issue than Meeting Boy [...]
The Best of thoughtLEADERS 2010: The Greatest Posts You’ve Ever Seen
2010 is almost over so as usual it’s time for the year in review list of the BEST posts we’ve published in 2010. We’re now making this an annual event therefore the award needs a name. I proudly introduce you to The Figgies! A tip of my hat to all my McKinsey buddies who used [...]
