How’s work? Are you engaged, working in flow and making breakthroughs, or are you disengaged, struggling to find motivation and produce results? To perform at your best, it’s important to check in with yourself: Where are you going? What are you doing to get there? Don’t get caught up in the daily grind or stuck…
Product design and innovation studio AJ&Smart has generated more than €2million from clients who first discovered it on social media. Ninety percent of AJ&Smart’s new clients now come from social media referrals, replacing word-of-mouth as the #1 source of new business. Social media has helped AJ&Smart’s client base to go global. It was a cold January…
After a year working as a human resources manager, I thought I was ready for a director-level promotion. Or, more accurately, I was worried that continuing to perform tactical HR responsibilities that could be easily outsourced wasn’t a sound long-term career plan. So my goal was to do more strategy work in the field of…
“Fail fast; learn fast.” It’s a mantra that we’ve heard repeatedly over the past decade, especially as startup culture has entered mainstream consciousness, but a part of me has always wondered how many of us actually take it to heart. In my own entrepreneurial career, which has included both spectacular successes and failures, I’ve been…
Kettlebell Kings has used educational content to build an audience of over 79,000 fitness enthusiasts on Instagram. It generates 400-600 new leads per week from social media, with half of those leads coming directly from Instagram. ‘Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ in revenue can be directly attributed to leads generated on Instagram. Read on to…
Women are succeeding in their careers now more than ever. We’re making our voices heard and our hard work noticed, and we’re rising to the top because we believe in ourselves. You have to believe in yourself, and what you wear to the office matters. Your appearance represents how you see yourself, and if you want to be powerful,…
LinkedIn now has more than 500 million users and if you want to reach business decision-makers, it could be the perfect place for you to market your business — especially with the addition of a new, personalized ad format. Introducing Dynamic Ads LinkedIn has released a new ad-type called Dynamic Ads. In the Dynamic Ads launch…
What makes a great leader? What does that kind of leadership look like? Let these words show you what it means to become a leader, and then allow them to empower you to lead well. 1. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all…
Why should organizational culture be important to you? If you don’t have an immediate answer, it probably means this topic doesn’t receive much attention from your executive team. You may even think of culture as one of those “soft” aspects of business that doesn’t drive results. The truth is, your company already has a culture,…
Recently, a friend told me about his struggle to become a purpose-driven leader. When he started his company, he said, he’d had every intention of building a business based on service, one that transcended the typical profit-seeking benchmarks of success. At first, he was inspired by his mission and assumed that, when people saw what…