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Personal Branding

How to Beat the Applicant Tracking System

The Applicant Tracking System, or “ATS,” has driven my clients absolutely NUTS for years now. This system, originally designed as a database to house applicant profiles & statuses in the hiring process, has morphed into a full-scale automation effort to reduce stress on recruiters and drastically reduce time spent with potentially valuable candidates. Please don’t […]

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Digital Skills Personal Branding

Top LinkedIn Filters to Find the Perfect Job

With nearly 400 million active users, LinkedIn is the preferred source of job opportunities for talented candidates. But if you’ve (like me!) spent countless hours scrolling through gross, irrelevant jobs to get to a single good prospect, you might have been attacking these job searches with less-than optimal search filters. I’m here to break the […]

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Personal Branding

How To Use Resume Templates Correctly

There are templates for your resume almost everywhere you look! Go to LinkedIn, Indeed, or Glassdoor and you can get a resume template for free AND in Word format in about thirty seconds. But those templates are totally flawed. Should You Use a Resume Template? Make no mistake, looking at Resume Templates can give you […]

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Personal Branding

Building The Perfect Resume: Why Not Do It Yourself?

Why should I hire a resume reviewer when I can revise my own resume? Is there any benefit? What goes into revising my own resume? These questions have been asked since the beginning of specialized “careers!” Resumes require adjustments consistent with your new experience, and you might need to bring in an expert to help! […]

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Digital Skills Personal Branding

11 Tips To Revise Your Resume For A Career Change

Adjusting your resume to fit a new career can be scary and, at times, you may feel like you’re not cut out for that move. I’m here to tell you: you ARE! When changing careers, the biggest issues my clients face isn’t the lack of experience; it’s a lack of confidence. I’m going to show […]

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Business Branding Digital Skills

How To Ask A Customer For A Review (With Examples)

Customer Reviews are the single greatest way to increase your social proof and greatly improves your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on Google. 87% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses in 2020, according to a consumer review survey by BrightLocal. It also greatly increases traffic to all platforms that allow them, including Amazon, Facebook […]

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Business Branding Digital Skills

Why Brand Awareness Campaigns Work

What Does A Brand Awareness Campaign Do? Brand awareness campaigns get a bad reputation, mostly because Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and remarketing bring in the trackable revenue. But brand awareness campaigns work in mysterious ways! Imagine this situation: Your favorite music station plays all day while you’re at work as an investment portfolio manager. You […]

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Business Branding Social Media

Digital Marketers: You Only Need These 3 Podcasts

How Podcasts Can Transform Your Digital Marketing Career Let’s be honest: if you’re a podcast junkie like myself, the best part of your day is the start of that long commute to work where you can throw on some headphones, hit “play” on your phone and settle into a new episode of your favorite podcast. […]

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Business Branding Social Media

The Perfect Digital Marketing Strategy For Franchise Owners

Have you ever searched for a certain fast food franchise, then gone to the location further away because the reviews were so much better? So have your customers, and building an unbeatable online presence can secure your 5-star ratings from here on out. 39% of franchise owners dedicate over 35% of their marketing budget to […]

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Business Branding Social Media

Have You Started Advertising Your Small Business? You Might Be Too Late

I started advertising my small business way too late. Stolen Ground Media was up and running for MONTHS without a single hint of website traffic. I made posts to social media, drafted dozens of blog posts and changed the name thirty times while I procrastinated putting money into my website. I’ll never make that mistake […]