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London was crowned world’s most visited city in 2013

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I’ve never been to London as a tourist. The first time I came here was at 18 years old being sponsored by my mother. Gosh, what experience, back then. London is an amazing city any way you’ll look at it and in 2013 was crowned world’s most visited city as I’ve found in a recent newspaper. London welcomed around 16 million visitors in 2013, surpassing Paris with 15,9 million visitors in 2012. More details in the attached photo. Continue reading London was crowned world’s most visited city in 2013

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What insights I got from Entrepreneurs in London event this week

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One of the ads I saw few days back was from a bank saying that even the small businesses will be global. Maybe let’s say that not necessarily in terms of customers which for some businesses is not a target, but at least we can communicate with the leads, clients and staff via e-mail and social media from anywhere in the world. Recently, actually this week I attended the first edition in 2014 of the networking event Entrepreneurs in London along with +100 experienced, beginners and future entrepreneurs and after speaking with more than 20 of them I got some … Continue reading What insights I got from Entrepreneurs in London event this week

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My job is to follow my dreams and show others how to do it in the process

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I am really puzzled! In the last two years I’ve changed countless of beliefs and this process seams like a non stop journey. But … it is a non stop thing and I learn on a daily basis how to handle it. You see, at the early stages the children are taught that day dreaming is a bad thing and unfortunately many of them through the years simply loose the benefits of using at the full potential their imagination. The imagination is limitless. In your mind you can be anything you want, can do absolutely what you want and the … Continue reading My job is to follow my dreams and show others how to do it in the process

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From Shaq-Apulco to Dr O’Neal

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In this video you can get a sneak preview of Shaquille O’Neal’s mansion and you can find out why soon we will call him Dr. O’Neal. This guy is an amazing figure and I really liked even his rap tunes. He is an example of how to shape your life goals and go after them. Be inspired and learn! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqEUQtkjKi0 Continue reading From Shaq-Apulco to Dr O’Neal

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Free ebook download How To Get More Customers with Social Media in Just 12 Days

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Just the other day, I had a huge “aha” moment about social media. Something that’s completely changed the way I promote my businesses, and that we believe will change the way you do too. Social Media Marketing Has Changed! Get More Customers with Social Media in Just 12 Days (free download) Get your copy today for free by clicking here. Continue reading Free ebook download How To Get More Customers with Social Media in Just 12 Days

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Our biggest education gaps

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Most of us, the ones passionate about the personal development are aware of the important things which weren’t taught in schools when we attended them. Mindvalley published the results of a recent survey containing the opinions of 20,000 of its customers. The results speak for themselves. The information from this infographic also shows market opportunities for trainers, teachers and mentors. Enjoy! Continue reading Our biggest education gaps

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Social Media Success in Real Life

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Social Media is a tool. It makes it easier to communicate and engage with a large number of people across a very wide geographic area. Social Media is not the goal.

Now that’s actually really important so let me say it again, ‘Social Media is NOT the goal!” Having 50,000 Facebook Fans means squat if none of them visit your site or buy your product. Businesses operate to make money, not friends. That’s why real social media success can only come once you leave social media behind and enter the world of IRL.

Social media IRL, as the kids say, simply means ‘In Real Life’ or ‘offline’ or, more appropriate for the marketing world, ‘where things get bought’. Businesses use social media to engage with other brands or clients, to research buying decisions, to ask questions, to watch videos of cats and to meet new people. What they don’t do is hand over money for goods and services. Why? Because they can’t. Outside of being able to buy more cows for your Farmville, there simply isn’t the functionality to make large B2B purchases via social media. This is almost guaranteed to change over the coming years but for now, the purchase always takes place on a company website, by phone or in person – IRL.
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Ad Agencies Love LinkedIn But Not Slideshare

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mark-sneider-hed-2013When hunting for new business, agency leaders have embraced the use of social media platforms, but only the most established hubs.

In a new poll from RSW/US—shared exclusively with Adweek—46 percent of 300 agency honchos described LinkedIn as the “most important” social media vehicle for generating new business leads, well above blogging (24 percent), Facebook and Twitter (both at 14 percent) and Google (just 2 percent). The same poll, though, found that only 21 percent use SlideShare to market their agencies to prospective clients.

Interestingly, SlideShare has been around nearly as long as LinkedIn—seven years compared to 10. So, both are ancient in the realm of social media, but obviously LinkedIn is a bigger name in b-to-b networking.

“It’s more top of mind. It’s a little bit more corporate,” explained Mark Sneider, president of RSW/US, a Cincinnati-based new business consultancy.

Also, LinkedIn “requires the least amount of effort to maintain and use effectively,” Sneider said. “All I have to do is to invite somebody into my network and now I have a network.”

Podcasting goes back even further than LinkedIn or SlideShare but like SlideShare, is seldom used in marketer prospecting. More than three-quarters of the poll respondents don’t use podcasts—or blogs, for that matter—to connect with prospects. Why? Because, like Twitter, these tactics are time- and labor-intensive. Continue reading “Ad Agencies Love LinkedIn But Not Slideshare”

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10 Simple Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

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I say over and over again that LinkedIn has the biggest income per user from all social networking sites. You should include Linkedin in your social media framework because here you can find the most important entrepreneurs, managers and professionals. LinkedIn is a network that you should visit daily for professional development — whatever your employment status may be.

Is your LinkedIn profile ready to be seen by others? Here are ten suggestions to give you instant LinkedIn cred.

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1. Upload a decent photo

Your LinkedIn profile photo sets the tone for everything else a viewer will experience on your page — just like match.com or Instagram. Except LinkedIn isn’t match.com or Instagram. It’s the world’s largest professional network. So that means:
•No blurry photos
•No photos of you cropped out of a group shot
•No photos of you at a ball park (unless you’re gunning to work for one)
•No avatars
•And for goodness sake, no selfies! (That’s mobile camera speak for self-portraits.)

If you don’t have money for a professional photographer, get a family member, roommate, or neighbor to take your photo against a solid colored wall. Try a few standing, then some sitting down. Get a few with a formal shirt, a few with a “business casual” top.

Or consider the low-cost approach I took: bartering with a photographer for your services or product. This was by far the best deal I made in my first year of business! Continue reading “10 Simple Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile”

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3 Things Social Media Managers Can Learn From Top Management

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As learning is an ongoing process, first, we see a lot of articles about what managers can learn from social media. As social media is rather a new science, management is a much older one. Vice-versa, what social media managers can learn from top management? Of course, most of the basic management principles apply to social media because of their similarity. Actually, they are both centered towards the actions of people you can’t quite control but are able to influence.

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1. It is not about what you can do but instead about what you can inspire others to do. Management success is not measured on individual results but instead on the results of the people you influence. Still most companies have their social media managed solely by fairly low-level employees who have only recently completed their studies. While studying people are mostly measured on individual results (exams, SAT scores…) and competing with each other instead of collaborating with them. In social media results are measured based on the actions of others (such as sharing, liking or commenting), which requires influence and the ability to motivate others that many social media managers still lack. Continue reading “3 Things Social Media Managers Can Learn From Top Management”