Are you connected to others via a social media website to grow your business? Have you been able to create a social media network of followers and friends? Then if you haven’t, you are missing out on the power of social media networking.
The power of social media networking is when you have created a network of people you can easily go to for the following:

Assistance with business problems
Find potential clients
Connect to business associates who can become joint ventures
Find support team members for you business

These are just a few of the ways that you can experience the power of social media …read more

Social Media wasn’t even a term 5 years ago. Where in the world did that term come from and how come it is so important to your job search? I am beginning another series of posts called Social Media and Your Job Search. I am going to be speaking on this topic on Saturday with a group of job seekers, so I thought I would share some of my thoughts with you here at Bizzia Careers. Here is a basic definition I found on Wikipedia: Social Media supports the human need for social interaction with technology… There is a lot …read more

Have you noticed that social media is becoming less and less about being social or relating to others that you network with and more about seeing who you can get to buy your services or products? As someone who loves to use social media to network with others, I want to encourage social media users to put the “social” back into social media.
What I mean by putting the “social” back into social media is that I want to encourage you to incorporate “relationship building” into your social media outreach. Try to get to know those that you are connected with …read more

As a leader, making sure that your team members connect is one of important responsibilities that you may have. A team that is connect means that if an issue arises, then the team works together to solve the issue. One example of a connected team that we have from recent history is The Obama Presidential Election team. I would call it the “Obama Connection” because they used Web 3.0 strategies to connect with supports to not only raise money but also votes.
In reviewing the “Obama Connection”, you can see that they used social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter …read more

The importance of team building to a business owner could affect the success of their business. Team building is a way for business owners to communicate their vision to their team and encourage connecting between their team members. It is the glue that can keep a team together in the hard time and the easy times.
Case in point, in an “ideal teaming environment”, team member are supportive of each other and each member carries their own weight. This means that the owner has taken on the responsibility to communicate their vision to the team and has made sure that each team …read more

Developing your professional network is all about people connecting with people, and understanding how to use their network.Who do you know, that knows somebody you need to know? It is not about just the people you know, it is also about who is behind those people.
Networking is built on the foundation of relationships. By my definition a net is a group of people with various life experiences and perspectives. These people and their perspectives are not necessarily visible to you and I by the naked eye, yet none the less they exist. I believe that each of us are part …read more