The battle for competitiveness in the cloud. In this age of radical transformation for supply chains, top companies are tying together prevailing concepts, like big data and the Internet of Things (IoT), with cloud-based computing. Supply chains are being reimagined as digital networks that track not only physical goods, but also people, data, and money.
In 1983, the year that Chevy Chase loaded his movie family into the Griswold’s station wagon in National Lampoon’s Vacation, Americans took an average of 20 vacation days. Now, the youngest member of the Griswold family is back on the big screen in 2015, this time taking his own family on a vacation. If Americans’
93 percent of all online experiences begin with a search engine and 75 percent of searchers don’t move past the first page of search results. With home buyers increasingly more likely to start their purchasing research online, content marketing is a strategic way for real estate marketers to get their properties in front of more
In real estate sales, you want people to find your properties, like what they see, and ultimately be moved to purchase. In other words, you want to attract visitors, convert visitors to leads, and convert leads to deals. Innovative luxury real estate firms are finding ways to leverage digital tools to guide more buyers down that
From coffee makers to urban design, the Internet of Things (IoT) is affecting change in virtually all aspects of daily life. And even though the IoT is still at the early-adopter stage, in just five years 50 billion devices are projected to be connected to the Internet, generating an estimated $2 trillion to $14 trillion
95% of B2B enterprise marketers and 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing. The down and dirty is that content marketing works. Content marketing attracts leads and converts leads to customers – and it does so at a lower cost than traditional marketing (and in a much less invasive manner). Here are some cold hard
A recent study by Forrester found that Instagram users were 58 times more likely to like, comment, or share a brand’s post than Facebook users and 120 times more likely than Twitter users. Yet, in a survey of marketers, only 28% reported making it a priority. With more than 300 million active users, companies that
There’s a great deal of buzz about social media in the business world – and for good reason. Marketing and communications professionals have made it de rigueur to tap into the popularity of social media networks to extend their brands into the digital world. But when it comes to executive use of social media, the
Content marketing has become a priority for many companies in recent years. But connecting branded digital content with the right audience can be tricky. A new report from Fronetics Strategic Advisors examines the relationship between social media and content distribution. The report reveals which social media networks are the most popular for content distribution and
Here’s why your employees should use social media. “Come here Mr. Watson, I want to see you.” Those were the words yelled by Alexander Graham Bell over the world’s first telephone connection. Bell had no way of knowing that a little more than fifty years later there would be more than 30 million telephones in
Every career coach will tell you that preparation is the key to interview success. Few ever talk about the key to interview failure. To understand how to succeed, you need to understand the ways you can fail. Here’s your study guide to bombing your next interview. Show up late Hiring managers, like the rest of
How to answer answer interview questions and ace your next interview. Congratulations! You just landed a job interview. Your resume proved enough to get you in the door, but now the real work starts. How do you approach your interview preparation to ensure that on interview day you’ll be walking in cool, calm, and collected?
