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Six Marketing Fundamentals to Help Advance Your Career

Six Marketing Fundamentals to Help Advance Your Career
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5 Ways Brands Can Use Pinterest to Boost Consumer Engagement On Pinterest? Follow Mashable to check out our favorite infographics, tech news, internet memes and digital culture! The surprise smash-hit social networking site of 2011 wasn’t Twitter, Tumblr or Google+. The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself - Heidi Grant Halvorson by Heidi Grant Halvorson | 8:00 AM August 29, 2012 There is no shortage of advice out there on how to make a good impression — an impression good enough to land you a new job, score a promotion, or bring in that lucrative sales lead. Practice your pitch. Speak confidently, but not too quickly. Make eye contact.

5 Things You Need to Do to Get a Job Two construction workers sat down to lunch. Worker #1 took out his turkey sandwich and eagerly started eating. Worker #2 tentatively opened his first sandwich. Examining it, he exclaimed, “Yuck, peanut butter,” and tossed it aside. Reaching in for his second sandwich, he opened it, and carefully peeled open the bread to examine the contents. “Yuck, peanut butter again!” Some Key Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012 Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and start-up enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing. In 2011, social media had its share of growing pains. Large brands and corporations took to social media in force to try to find footing in this expanding medium. Some brands found success, while others found peril and new PR nightmares. One person who has helped brands navigate the proverbial social media minefield is Amy Jo Martin.

How to Avoid 7 Common On-the-Job Mistakes Everyone makes mistakes—but some of those mistakes are more avoidable than others. When it comes to your job, even just one mistake could result in major consequences for your career. Impress your employer by avoiding the following mistakes: Mistake #1: Being unavailable It’s inevitable that, at some point, your supervisor or co-workers will approach you and ask for your help on an outside project or assignment. 10 Reasons Why People Get Fired I didn’t say this was going to be a happy post. But sometimes looking at the darker sides of a career, we can learn how to improve it. Avoid the potholes in the future. And perhaps build a more stable career and life platform. And for the purpose of this post, “fired” is used as a general term.

5 Minute Guide To Scoring A Job In Social Media Hitting up a job in today’s economy isn’t exactly the easiest of tasks if you aren’t uber qualified and know your stuff. Then there is the challenge of looking in the right place as well. Just applying for jobs left and right because you need one might not be the right thing to do since you could lose valuable time matchmaking that resume of yours with what the employer expects of you. Ask These Questions at Your Next Job Interview to Leave a Lasting Impression Kinja is in read-only mode. We are working to restore service. Just going out on a limb here but instead of having to cycle people through your meat grinder, perhaps you could hire more employees and allow them to work sane weeks? Flagged I don't understand why they'd take the job when that fact is laid out in front of them. We have about 35% turnover and that's the reason that nearly all of them leave.

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