15 WAYS LEADERS CAN PROMOTE CREATIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE

Creativity used to be a term reserved for alternative professions and hobbies. Today, it is being embraced in offices around

WORLD AIDS DAY

World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV

BUSINESS CARDS STILL MATTER

I’m certainly not a fan of printing unnecessary collateral materials, and enjoy technology as much as the next person (for the most part). However, for those that feel that business cards are no longer viable or important, I will be the first to disagree.

WHAT PLATFORM WORKS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Has you in anyway ever thought which social media channel is best for your business?

Well, of course, you would have!

HOW TO BUILD BRAND TRUST ON SOCIAL MEDIA

So, you have been working on your brand for some time now. Competitors know you. Consumers know you. Is that enough?

EMAIL MARKETING, PROS (CONS)

Today I want to dig in a little deeper about email marketing. Do you send welcome emails to your audience? If not, you’re missing out on a prime opportunity for conversions.

TACKLING ILLITERACY WITH THE ALPHABET, CHALLENGES FACING HUMANITY

The A to Z collection highlights the plight faced by people struggling to break out of illiteracy, with a focus on those who have a particular interest in social issues and those who are highly active and influential in social media.

FREE TOOLS TO MODERNIZE YOUR MARKETING

If it's your job to get new clients, you know traditional marketing methods don’t yield great results, or you don't think you have the budget to make it work, think again!

BUSINESS TOOLS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER ONLINE

We’re growing faster, smarter, and more efficient thanks to new technology. Learning new technology isn’t always easy, but sometimes it’s too hard to pass it up. This is especially true when you’re running an online business.

WHY NOBODY IS READING YOUR CONTENT

Content, content, content.

It seems like content is the only thing anyone can talk about these days.

You’ve probably read post after post about how “content is king” at least a dozen times.

WHY WE HAVE A LOT OF SHALLOW PEOPLE THESE DAYS

They say we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but let’s face it: people are shallow.

We judge based on looks all the time. We’ll pass a dirty-looking, disheveled person on the street and assume he’s homeless, or crazy, or a drunk. We’ll meet a savvy woman at a meeting and assume her home is sharp-looking and neat.

HAPPY CHILDREN DAY

HAPPY CHILDREN DAY FROM ALL OF US AT CREAD HUB RESOURCES

UDEMY LEARNING MADE EASY

Udemy is one of the larger private online course providers. They have managed to aggregate and educate 6 million students over the past several years, proving that their system and philosophy is worthwhile to their clients.

NIGERIAN CELEBRITY SEX-TAPE

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It took a whole lot of stress and compilation, but i managed to get my hands on it, with great effort, as I say. this film is forbidden to minors under the age of 18 . Watching this program is only allowed with your parents or family support.

OLD SCHOOL MARKETING THAT CAN BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS

Our world is in the midst of massive digital progression. It seems nowadays that everything and everyone is going digital. In the marketing world, the progress of digital technology has had both a positive and negative impact.

TELLING STORIES OF THE BUSINESS YOU SOLVE

Last Friday I attended a meeting with a client we have been working with for just over three months. This professional services business had grasped the importance of online and we have been helping them to build a creative business strategy and more effective web presence.

MENTAL STRENGTH AS AN ENTREPRENEUR

You’re a young entrepreneur on a mission. You’re setting out to build a career, boldly stepping into your own space, like an artist set on outdoing the people who influenced you. There’s one gigantic problem, though: You’ve never done this before.

TECHNIQUES ON EMAIL MARKETING

It’s no secret that the quickest way to connect with consumers is through email marketing. Over 144.8 billion emails travel between machines everyday, bringing people and businesses together. Yet, with the ease of accessibility

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH 500 MILLION NAIRA?

The money. It is said that we do not need money to be happy, and it is true, at least in part. We do not need money, but we need the things that the money can give us: a better home, an increase in comfort, the freedom to do what we want alive. However,

IS COPYWRITING DEAD

Before we get further into our Copywriting, I thought I’d tell you what NOT to expect.

If you’re here looking for tips on SEO copywriting for your blog, you’ll want to look elsewhere. But you’re probably wasting your time.

IMPROVE MARKETING ON LINKEDIN

More and more organizations and business leaders have embraced social media as a key component of their business strategy. Among the main social networks, LinkedIn has become the most powerful tool for connecting professionals worldwide.

ADVERTISING WITH LITTLE OR NO CAPITAL

The last decade has seen a tremendous rise in the number of young people venturing into business. Although that can be attributed to several factors.

CREATING AND USING MEANINGFUL WHATSAPP GROUPS

Few months back, I got a message on WhatsApp messenger from an old Friend from the past. He was creating a group of friends of the past. He had requested for my permission to add me in that group. 

MORE WAYS ON BECOMING BUSINESS-SAVVY

Business skills don't always come naturally to people. But they're a necessary evil if you want to be successful and profitable.

CLIENT ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT

One of the first things I was taught years ago is that “the customer’s always right.” I never completely went along with this view –  Jump forward 10+ years

WHERE TO MEET SOCIAL INFLUENCERS MEET BRANDS AND READERS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

I learned about the Sverve website awhile back.  Figured it was worth checking out.  It’s great to be able to share your experience and hear from others, who are doing the same. Being able to make money from things that we do every day, anyway, was just icing on the cake.

HOW YOU CAN TARGET YOUR MARKET

So sure, you now know you need to discover your target market and then sell to them, but where are these people anyway? The biggest most important question most people ask about targeting their marketing is where to find their market after they’ve identified who their target market is.

GOD'S PLAN

If you're like me, you're still crying over Drake's new video for "God's Plan." In the Karena Evans-directed video, Drake has a budget of almost $1 million — and he gives it all away

SECRET TO A SUCCESSFUL, ENDURING BUSINESS

What makes an Entrepreneur successful begins not with fancy corporate jargon or a client roster of well known brands, but with the people at it. Choosing who those people are and

NEVER GIVE UP

We all hit that point in our lives where we are faced with the option of either battling on, or giving up. When you’re overwhelmed with the lack of progress in your life, it’s easy to talk yourself into giving up.

VISUAL BRAND IDENTITY

When you’re building your brand, including the development of your story, personality, core message, brand promise and so on, you need to be sure to include a strategy for visual components as well.

VALENTINE MARKETING CAMPAIGN

Creating content is a great way to delight both customers and prospects.  It’s a great way to boost your inbound marketing initiatives and help drive organic traffic from search engines.

FEEDBACK WE HATE TO HEAR

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that every entrepreneur who has been in the business for at least a few years has received some frustrating and cringe-worthy feedback from clients about their work.

WHAT IS HASHTAG

Whether you're an individual or a large corporation, let's be honest here...we ALL want to get ahead in the social media game. Social media has proved to be a HUGE factor in the overall of business marketing and growth, especially for new start ups!

WHY CARE ABOUT PUBLIC RELATIONS

When launching and scaling your small business, we often have a list of things we need to accomplish to be successful and order them based on what is the top priority.

FIRE THAT CLIENT

I've seen many designers worry about getting fired by some client who's giving them all the signs, it is quite rare to spot the opposite.

DISCUSSING SOCIAL MEDIA

I think that social media is one part of the realization of the original vision that Tim Berners-Lee had for the World Wide Web when he created it. Social media is worldwide network of human beings sharing information with one another.

WRITING A CREATIVE BRIEF

The creative brief (also call a design brief or an innovation brief) is a summary of a design project. It provides a road map for expectations and working relationships while the project is in development. It describes the purpose, parts and schedule of a requested design solution. It outlines the client's requirements and how the designer will address them. It provides enough information for the designer to proceed confidently, but not so much that her creativity is stifled.

MARKETING CHANNELS

As of now, there are a lot of marketing channels available to us. Businesses need to get very, very good at getting clients in just a few of these channels.

SUCCESS VS SUPPORT

I've worked in and led customer success and customer support teams over the course of my career, and people in the industry use both terms -- sometimes interchangeably. Sometimes they draw sharp divisions between these two business functions.

MEETING YOUR BUSINESS GOALS

While I’m champing at the bit to start setting up resolutions for my business in 2018, I know I first need to take a look at how my company did this in meeting the business goals I established some years ago.

INTERNET COMMUNICATION IN THE RECESSION

Apparently the recession is still here

As an agency dude, I’m worried about clients slashing budgets and forcing employers to look at how to cut its own costs.

STORYTELLING IN BUSINESS

I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

SOCIAL MEDIA - WHERE DOES PR FIT IN ?

How did I come to this conclusion?  It took a while.  Maybe I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. but i recently found out that one of the biggest reasons for the (currently) low uptake of social media is that both businesses and PR professionals don’t understand the synergy between the new and existing press release formats.

YOU AS A BRAND IN TODAY'S WORLD

If i ask you what your brand is, how would you answer me? Is it going to be your tag-line or slogan? Your logo? maybe it would be your product, service or your business's direction?. If the question doesn’t give you an immediate answer, don’t worry – you’re not alone.

IS SOCIAL MEDIA DEAD

Social media is not dead already. It is, however, most definitely over-saturated.

SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT A BUSINESS GOAL

As digital marketers moving beyond blog posts (blogs, at least, have been around for 22 years) our KPIs have been shifting as well. It’s important to grow our followers, get likes, and shares (and of course document this data as we grow an audience).

SOLID PR STRATEGY

PR folks love to talk strategy; which is good because it’s the single most important aspect of what we do for the organizations we represent. As we plan strategy we tend to voice our opinions and instincts,

WEBSITES TO HELP YOUR ONLINE MARKETING SKILLS

I know many companies that want to engage in search or online marketing for the first time and also those that want to step it up a notch are always on the lookout for better resources.

IMAGE RANKING

Ranking on image search requires both the optimization of images and page elements to promote the ranking of those images in search, as well as optimization of images and image sizes so they load faster and improve page speed. Here’s how to do it.