It's not uncommon to hear colleagues say LinkedIn is the best social media platform to market their products and services. I can't think of another social media platform where people put their entire life's work history out there for the world to see, the way we do on LinkedIn. The full career disclosure approach most of us take when setting up our profiles is exactly why LinkedIn is such a robust database of potential customers!
Many of us have been told, at one point or another, that the key to career success is a college education. With that in mind, we dutifully (although not always gracefully) completed our four(+) years, earned our diplomas and prepared to enter the workforce, to take the world by storm.
Marketing has changed radically over the last decade. There are many different kinds of marketing and advertising agencies and lots of different crafts and disciplines. For many decades, the advertising or marketing communications model dominated. In those models “the agency” would collaborate with the customer to make some discreet project or set of projects. And generally, the agency would be responsible for doing a good job of creating and executing the project. They would be responsible for the project being good, but not for ...
