Tag: Social Media

5 Reasons Why Social Media Is Great For Your Small Business

Social media can help with building brand awareness and as a way to interact with customers as well as keep them informed about what is happening with their business.

Does Your Business’ Social Media Have A Point?

Many businesses understand that they need to have a social media presence, but without a digital expert in the ranks, you could find yourself lacking direction and posting messages for the sake of posting, instead of having a clear thought process behind them.

E3: FOMO: The Fear Of Missing Out – Smart Phone and Other Tips to Overcome It – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood

FOMO: The Fear Of Missing Out – Smart Phone and Other Tips to Overcome It – Sunday Night Live w/ Matt Sweetwood

My Daughter Just Graduated and Why I think She Needs a Powerful Personal Brand

Job seeking has changed a lot over the past few years. Gone are the days of waiting for the Sunday newspaper to scour the job section for new opportunities.

It’s Official: beBee Producer Crushes Linkedin Pulse for Engagement

In today’s highly competitive world of article writing, everyone is looking for the best platform to have their work viewed, discussed and shared. So, I decided to perform a simple test on two of the largest professional network blogging platforms.

8 Reasons How a Powerful Personal Brand Will Make You Successful

If you do not have a powerful and visible personal brand you are putting yourself at a disadvantage in almost every aspect of your professional, business and personal life.

13 Power Tips To Create The Best Live Video On beBee

Building on my own personal success, I share with you the 13 tips that will help make your live buzzes on beBee a big success for you and help you build your personal brand and business.

How The Influencers Changed Advertising

Please enjoy this video where I discuss the re-invention of the camera store and photography business I operated for 28 years and my new role as US CEO of the new social media platform, beBee.com – and why personal branding is a crucial part of being successful in today’s connected world.

12 Things Photo Retailers Should Do in 2017

If you are running a photo retail store, I don’t have to tell you 2016 was a difficult year for photo retailers. If natural disasters killing camera production and supply wasn’t bad enough, we had Amazon adding same-day delivery to major markets—trying to compete directly with the instant gratification one gets from buying locally.

20 Experts Answer: What’s Your #1 Sales Follow-Up Tip?

Still, there are unreached numbers and distant quotas. What could be done now–just a few weeks before the year ends–to seal the deal, or maybe even to put these deals in a better position for 2017?

Can Online Networking BEE as Successful as In-Person Networking?

Can Online Networking BEE as Successful as In-Person Networking? As the U.S. CEO beBee.com, a new professional social networking site with over 11 million worldwide users (Bees), I give a lot of thought to social media and networking. Since my goal is to get beBee to 100 million […]

Retail Intelligence: Profit from Education II

In Profit from Education II, I address the steps, tricks and techniques a photo retailer should take to build an effective and winning education curriculum.

How to Run an Effective Social Media Employee Advocacy Program

If you can’t get engagement on your social media posts, get your employees to help. Every smart entrepreneur knows that you need to use social media to effectively market your business and your brand.

LinkedIn’s Most Annoying Feature & How You Can Avoid It

On LinkedIn, on your birthday, the present they give you is a deluge of messages from you connections IN YOUR MESSAGE INBOX. Add that to the spam messages you get daily and the people thanking you for endorsements you actually didn’t give and you have an inbox that is fried.

Retail Intelligence: Profit from Education

In 2006 I realized our photo distribution business at Unique Photo was in serious jeopardy. The conventional model of selling film, paper, chemistry and photographic accessories to photo retailers was no longer working. The future for us was bleak.

8 Social Media Power Tips To Build Your Brand & Biz

All our customers were going out of business, our product was losing margin, and our competition was growing – I had to do something. Our savior came in the form of social media – implementing a 2-brand strategy – using the power of my personal brand to magnify the company’s brand.

Who Would BEE the Winner in the Microsoft Buyout of LinkedIn?

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy LinkedIn Corp for a whopping $26.2 billion dollars. This combines the software giant and its cloud services with the world’s largest online professional network. It’s Microsoft’s biggest deal ever – by far. So who would the winner in this mega-deal be?

LinkedIn’s 1st Competitor? beBee Buzzes In

LinkedIn is the most widely used business networking site on the planet with more than 433 million worldwide users, including 128 million in the United States. They have a monopoly on the professional networking world, until now…

13 Social Media Tips for Getting the Job You Want

Job seeking has changed a lot over the past few years. Gone are the days of waiting for the Sunday newspaper to scour the job section for new opportunities. So, do you need to use social media to find a new job? Does having a powerful personal brand give you an edge in the job market?

10 Things Every Photo Retailer Should Do in 2016

Operating a photo retail store is hard. It’s hard work with long hours. It’s hard to make sales. It’s hard to find good employees. It’s hard to keep expenses down.. it’s just damn hard to make a profit—which if you could, would make everything else less hard.

7 Social Media Techniques that Build Your Brand

Simply put: all our customers were going out of business, our product was losing margin, and our competition was growing in number, capability, and size. I had to do something or my family’s 60-year-old business would also be done.