feeding the beast. you need to keep coming up with good content to keep people engaged and do it in a way fun for you so it doesn t become a chore. here with ways to organize your social media messages, torre johnson, the ceo of women for hire, a company that creates recruiting events to connect wo. she also the author of sparkle and hustle. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. i loved this chapter where it talked about this. we do social media all the time but it really makes it easy. and it came to me out of necessity. for me, figuring out every morning, what am i putting on facebook today, became a chore and i started not doing it. this is awful, a week can go by and i m not doing anything. if i m going to make facebook work for me, i have to be engaged. fur going to do it, do it. you have to do it. we put together ways to think about what to put out on social media. monday you say review.
dudd sleeds the ceo of ask.com and started the unorthodox practice of having workshops at his company. they have caused a culture shift that he says inspired new ideas. doug, great to see you. great to see you. i have to be honest when i heard that my heart fell to the bottom of my stomach, like improv petrifies me. it s not scary at all. in concept a lot of people at the company were nervous at first, but once they got going it becomes easy and that s what it is about. being silly and being free and it s not scary once you get going. before we talk about how to get people to do it, i just want to know why. why does this help having people get up to do improv? how does that help your business goals? so much of business these days is planning and focus. getting a quarterly plan and execution, but what that does is
hi, everyone. i m j.j. ramberg and welcome to your business where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. all small businesses have their ups and down but for asa products owner it has been a true roller-coaster ride. in her first three years she made millions of dollars in sales only to see them plummet. now her company is back on top with valuable insight into how to run her business and avoid past pitfalls. asa products, the maker of the mobo cruiser want their customers to have more than fun. they want their customers to be wowed. on the package, as soon as they open the package, oh, very nice. when they ride the experience, wow, very cool. when they call customers, wow, you guys are nice. so it s just like you want to have that wow factor that will have people remember who you are. and that s the brand. building the brand is now at the core of the company for founder and president melody shay hornstrap, but today business is booming and getting to t
hi, everyone. i m j.j. ramberg and welcome to your business where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. all small businesses have their ups and down but for asa products owner it has been a true roller-coaster ride. in her first three years she made millions of dollars in sales only to see them plummet. now her company is back on top with valuable insight into how to run her business and avoid past pitfalls. asa products, the maker of the mobo cruiser want their customers to have more than fun. they want their customers to be wowed. on the package, as soon as they open the package, oh, very nice. when they ride the experience, wow, very cool. when they call customers, wow, you guys are nice. so it s just like you want to have that wow factor that will have people remember who you are. and that s the brand. building the brand is now at the core of the company for founder and president melody shay hornstrap, but today business is booming and getting to t
i liked it, but there was work available. harsh lesson for folks hoping to land a summer job. even as the nation s unemployment situation starts to get a little bit better, jobs for teens continue to be extremely hard to find. i want to show you a chart that shows how hard it is for your teenager to find a job. no surprise here. it shows a tremendous drop in 18 to 24-year-old workers with a summer job. over the last decade youth summer employment has fallen from nearly 60% to less than half. there are still opportunities out there. we want to let you know about what they are. torre johnson, author of the book from fired to hired. thanks for having me. this stuff used to be obvious when we were kids. what is the best way for a student looking for a summer job is? is it still pounding the pavement or the internet or social media? i think it s a combination of both. i think there is a danger with the internet that you rely exclusively on the internet and think it s a false s