by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media
This Guest Post was written by Matt Schexnayder. Matt is on the SpareFoot marketing team and writes for the SpareFoot blog. SpareFoot is a large online marketplace for self-storage and offers consumers a comparison shopping experience within the storage industry. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
Are you one of the 160+ million users of LinkedIn? Did you get involved to grow your business? Are you hoping to grow your business by growing your LinkedIn network? It's not going to happen if you're not going to work it! So, if you aren't willing to spend some time every single week on LinkedIn, stop reading now. Go do something you are willing to do. If you are, however, willing to spend some time on LinkedIn, every single week, here are a few strategies to help you grow your LinkedIn network. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
Twitter boasts over 140 million active users who produce over 340 million Tweets per day. Certainly, Twitter has established itself as a major force in the social media universe and major brands agree as 77% of marketers listed Twitter as one of their top three priority social platforms. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Cloud Computing, General Business Advice, Social Media
Most of my clients are talking about cloud storage and the various services being offered “in the cloud.” Financial services providers, for example, are wondering where they are going to store all the social media and other data FINRA regulations require them to store. Law firms, accounting firms and small businesses are wondering if they need to be spending money on hardware and software or on storage and other cloud services. Firms are establishing specialties in providing virtual business solutions for their clients. Cloud storage/services is a topic that is becoming more and more important and we are helping you analyze your options. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
Word is, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) is allowing all its financial advisers to participate in Twitter and LinkedIn. Last year, it announced plans to open social media use to its advisers. The first step of the plan was to allow 600 advisers to use Twitter and LinkedIn in some capacity–now the firm's roughly 17,000 financial advisers will be able to use the social-media sites. Lauren Boyman, MSSB's director of social media said that during the pilot program, LinkedIn helped advisers win more business. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
MacBook Pro
The Wall Street Journal writesthat “Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.’s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.” (more…)