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How to Establish Yourself as an Industry Expert

Being quoted by the media as being an expert in your industry is a better kind of branding than even the most expensive of advertising and marketing campaigns. Journalists and bloggers are constantly on the hunt for resources for their stories. They’re always searching for people who can speak intelligently about specific topics. If you’re well-versed in your field and have a lot to say, it’s time for you to connect the dots. Follow these strategies to put yourself in front of the right peopl...

Unusual Social Media Tips to Drive Branding

Tracy Worth works as a consultant for clients on social media and digital strategies. Today, writing about “Unusual Social Media Tips to Drive Branding“!
Effective and strong social media tips drive successful businesses. According to a recent study based in the US region, a survey of over 400 websites for the period of 4 months suggested that social media referrals and successful campaigns drive more than 40% of website traffic in the modern day world of Digital Media. Hence, not just your b...

Leading in Trouble Times

As a project manager in numerous projects, I had to face a lot “odd” situations! There were times I had to “improvise” a lot, in order to find suitable solutions and win-win strategies, even though I was not the direct responsible for the solutions of the problems occurred in the projects! I had to direct the consortium to one solution versus the other, to find more ways to do a thing, to organize supportive actions to enhance an activity, and many other things to help the accomplishment of t...

5 Leadership Tips for Remote Teams Management

Tess Pajaron is the Community Manager for Open Colleges for over 3 years. She has a background in Business Administration (Major in Management and Finance) and has worked for their family corporation for over 9 years as Administrative Manager and Auditor. Today she is presenting “5 Leadership Tips for Remote Teams Management“! Worth reading it!
These days, managers should expect to face the reality of remote teamwork at one point or another. Many companies are today built on exclusively or pa...

How to Develop a Culture in a Remote Team?

When you are working in remote teams, usually you have a sense of interdependent along to a sense of alienation from the normal operation procedures of your company! I remember the feeling when I was working to R&D EEC projects involving many different teams across Europe! Working remotely, is now a valid way of working, but in order to be effective it needs to be based in a common company culture!

The Case of Teleworking

When you work remotely (teleworking), you enjoy many benefits (flexib...

Be a Proactive Leader

Ellie Harry is an Australian writer and an experienced career counselor providing her services in various cities! Today, writes about the features of a proactive leader!
To create a successful business venture, the first step is to have an idea and assemble a team to implement that idea. Anyone can dream of doing big, but it only takes an entrepreneur to turn that dream into a reality. Coming up with a rare and unique idea is not an easy feat, but executing it in such a way that it successful...

How to Define your Ideal Niche Market

Do you have clients consuming the most of your valuable time without any substantial income? Have you ever feel like that you want to shift your priorities about the support of your clients? There are good and bad clients? These are the questions revolved in my mind after a long session with a client related to a trivial issue about the marketing strategy I have suggested him? And make me think about what can I do for that!

What’s Happening With the Clients

In consulting business, you meet...

10 Smart Tips for Effective Learning

Effective learning is not easy! This excellent infographic by PapersGearpresents “10 Smart Tips for Effective Learning” you should know about it! The infographic is developed by Melinda Osteen and it is based on research contacted by the PapersGear research group! Melinda Osteen is a writer and an editor who features the latest writing and studying trends in her articles and intends to share her knowledge with young specialists. She works as a writing expert and an editor. The infographic she...

Multiply your Productivity by a Factor of 10

As a person, sometimes, I am an impetuous one! I use to grasp quickly the situation and respond or decide quickly for the next steps! I usually like very much complex situations because they suit me just fine! I do not like delays and I try to process everything in a single swipe (or more actually in a dedicated time slot)! That’s why I was thrilled to read the “processed once rule” presented by David Allen in his GTD methodology! It is a rule I found of maximum importance for many aspects of...

Best management practices to improve employee productivity

Jimmy Mathews works as a managing consultant for FMCG brand in the United States. He likes to use his free time in blogging, reading, animation and video! In today’s post writes about the “best management practices to improve employee productivity”! Check it out!
Every organization or a company goes through torrid times in managing their employees. As a large workforce and different teams in different departments, you will find some people extremely happy and satisfied with their work while s...