Shari Berg 
Have you heard? Meta plans to use your photos, videos, and other personal information for nefarious purposes. The only way to stop them is to copy and post a legal-sounding notice on your timeline stating you don’t give your permission. There have been several stories about it. Quick! Find one and share it on your … Read more
Small business ownership is a high-wire act performed without a safety net. Behind every neighborhood café, boutique, or local service company lies an untold story of sleepless nights, maxed-out credit cards, and kitchen tables covered with spreadsheets into the wee hours of the morning. While entrepreneurship is often glamorized as a path to independence and … Read more
Picture this: A sleek, beautifully designed website launches after months of development. The visuals are stunning, the animations are smooth, and the layout is pixel-perfect. There’s just one problem. The copy doesn’t fit. Headlines are too long, product descriptions are awkwardly truncated, and crucial messaging is buried beneath flashy design elements. The result? A costly … Read more
There’s more to starting a successful podcast than grabbing the nearest microphone and waxing poetic. With over 4 million podcasts available, competition is fierce. It’s easy to get lost in the crowd without a well-executed strategy. Avoiding pod fade – that burnout that happens when you realize you’re in over your head – means knowing … Read more
We live in an era of instant information and viral content. Digital news outlets and social media platforms have significantly accelerated the speed at which reports – including rumors and breaking news – spread. Once that bull is out of the proverbial pen, it’s difficult to rein it back in. The digital age has democratized … Read more
Do you know where many brands go wrong with their content marketing strategies? They treat their brands as just another logo or product instead of as a living, breathing narrative that captures the hearts and minds of their ideal customers. We’re bombarded with thousands of marketing messages from the minute we get online until the … Read more
Creating a content marketing strategy that drives customers to your proverbial doorstep isn’t easy. Establishing clear objectives is always the first step in the process. Once you know what you want to achieve, you must figure out who is going to help you get there. Marketing pros call it audience research. This is the step … Read more
One person is more than enough to make a difference. That’s the mantra that drives Jay Jones to expose the dark underbelly of LinkedIn filled with scammers preying on desperate job seekers. To date, his relentless pursuit of those with nefarious intentions has helped to take down 4,000 fake job ads and uncover scammers posing … Read more
Ten to 20 seconds. That’s how quickly you must make a good first impression with website visitors. Fail to hold their attention, and you won’t get a second chance. They’ll be off to your competitors in search of more engaging content. Welcome to the fast-paced digital world, where attention spans are fleeting, and competition is … Read more
The literary snob in Jeff Vande Zande ignored the idea brewing in his brain for most of the summer of 2020. How could he possibly think about putting those thoughts on paper when they were—gasp! —so far off from the genre he usually pursued? With five novels under his belt, most fell neatly into the literary … Read more
