Tag Matthew Ramirez

Recently, I ran a survey of 1000 retail investors to determine where their heads were at on the economy and earning extra cash with a side hustle. The results were astounding.

Many people believe we are in, or on the verge of, a recession. These are questionable times for investors, so it’s helpful to look into how some successful people are managing their own capital. We asked them, “How has the current economy shifted the way you invest?”

Of course, this is not financial advice. To help during these more frugal times, we asked what a few CEOs, founders, and other investors are doing, to see their thought process on investment shifts to deal with an uncertain future.

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You’ve taken the step to increase your social media presence and created that perfect Instagram page for your business. Or, maybe you have a long-standing Instagram account, and your annual review relies on you growing your followers. Whatever the case may be, there are some tried and true methods to growing your Instagram following the right way, which the following 13 marketing professionals and Instagram enthusiasts were happy to share when we asked.

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I spend the first two hours of my morning preparing for the day ahead. This includes some light meditation, gratitude exercises while I make coffee, reviewing my calendar and prioritizing my tasks by urgency and importance. I then get my team started, and might have a client meeting. I’m on an extended weight-loss journey, so on most weekdays I go to the gym in the mid-morning where I listen to podcasts while doing cardio, and answer a few emails between weight-training sets. This is what works for me, and other founders, c-suite executives, and team leaders have morning routines that work for them.

To help you gain insight into the morning routines of founders, we asked successful entrepreneurs and founders how they start their days. From practicing 5-minute journaling to “Zenning out” in the morning, there are several different morning routines that these founders engage in to start their days off right and end feeling productive and content.

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LinkedIn is a great way to build a professional platform for both your personal brand and the company’s online presence. Even though it’s a more professional social media platform, it still has that keyword in it: social.

If you happen to have the premium version of LinkedIn, then you might want to start tracking people who have engaged your posts in the past. Add them to a list in Sales Navigator and reciprocate whenever they put up new content. You’ll be surprised how many of them will continue to engage your content, too. Also, feel free to connect with me.

As with with every other social channel, you’ll want to drive quality engagement with your content. These nine business leaders and digital marketing professionals weigh in on some of the best practices to drive LinkedIn engagement that includes more likes, comments, shares, and other interactions with your posts.

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Shortly after “Quiet Quitting” took headlines by storm, “Quiet Firing” showed up in its wake. The former takes the side of the employee, where various factors such as COVID-related stress, burnout, and economic woes take their toll on the workforce leading them to choose to be less productive. The latter is the business side, where productivity is stifled from the top-down in order to make a person so miserable they willingly leave. But if employees are quietly quitting, why shouldn’t management participate in quietly firing these difficult workers?

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Most sales don’t happen overnight, especially if they’re large purchases or B2B deals. They often require you to educate your prospects on your product or service while simultaneously building a relationship with them. Rapport usually takes time to develop, but with practice, you can speed up the process.

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To help you discover the best link-building secrets, we asked SEO professionals and marketing leaders this question for their best insights. From incorporating social proof into your SEO strategy to giving testimonials online, there are several lesser-known link building tactics that can be used to boost brand awareness and authority online.

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To help you determine whether or not a vendor will make a good partner for your business, we asked business leaders and sales professionals for their best tips. From ensuring the vendor understands your niche to conducting background checks, there are many ways you can vet a new supplier in a vendor-partner relationship.

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