Norah Martin, Author at Fincyte

5 Blogs That Will Make You a Better Leader

Norah Martin — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:01:05 +0000

Some people are natural born leaders; others need to earn this title the hard way, by working hard, visiting leadership blogs, learning business skills and tactics. Not every manager is a leader, but every leader needs to be a great manager, as well as an expert in his/her niche, an agile worker, a good friend and a strict boss when needed. These are some of the major differences between leaders and regular managers:

While managers at the moment they receive orders from above, leaders are anticipating changes and preparing their team for new challenges;
Managers have employees who present them their work results, leaders have followers who consult them on various issues;
Managers shift responsibility to their employees and serve as mediators, while leaders are taking responsibility and stand in front of their team with firm belief in their abilities.

There are numbers of great leadership blogs 2016 on the Internet, which can’t solely turn a bad manager into a leader, but can help people in this process and offer them insights and solutions to various management problems. These are our favorite leadership blogs:

Top 5 Must Visit Leadership Blogs 2016

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1). EverCoach

EverCoach is not just a coaching and leadership blog, it is also a learning platform that offers on- and offline leadership and coach courses. When it comes to the EverCoach Blog, it is a place where you will find plenty of interesting and useful leadership articles. Content is divided into several categories, with ‘business’ being the most useful one for managers who want to learn how to do their job smoothly and develop their leadership skills. Other than improving your leadership skills, reading this blog can turn you into skillful personal coach.

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2).Michael Hyatt

God sent Michael Hyatt to help high achievers, and while being on this mission, he shares his thoughts on Forbes, WSJ, NYT and Businessweek. He offers very interesting leadership blog entries, complimented with free eBooks and podcasts. Other than leadership articles, Hyatt also likes to talk and write about: productivity, personal development and influence. He is a very popular speaker, who has held lectures on some of the most respected American universities.

3). Johnny Maxwell

John Maxwell Leadership site is definitely one of the most competent leadership blogs of this kind. It is run by John Maxwell, author, speaker and pastor, who has written several very popular leadership books. He also spoke at some of the most prestigious American universities, including West Point Military Academy and at a number of Fortune 500 companies. Other than his blog, you can also read his articles in a number of popular online magazines like Forbes and Inc.

4). Leadership Freak

Dan Rockwell is trying to make a change and to empower future leaders by providing them with his wisdom in 300 words per day. He’d been working at various leadership positions, since he was 19 years old, and he’s been one of the favorite authors of the Management Association, who put him on their Top 30 Leaders in Business 2014 list. He’s also posting his thoughts and advice on Facebook and Twitter.

5). Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog

This blog is written by John Hunter, another author who focuses on topics of leadership and management in general. Leadership Blogs entries are divided into categories that cover everything from investing, to education, healthcare and innovation. Other than blogging, John Hunter also preaches and teaches his wisdom, plus he has written more than a dozen books on this topic.

A manager’s position doesn’t bring you respect. The only way you can earn it is by showing off your leadership qualities to the team and focusing on turning subordinates into followers. Although most people think these skills are complicated to learn, a good start is showing respect to your employees and communicating with them clearly and consciously.

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5 Top Marketing Apps to Help Put You on the Map

Norah Martin — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:47:56 +0000

As the well-known Czech-born novelist, playwright and poet Milan Kundera once said: “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” Innovations and advancements in the field of technology have also been used for improving existing marketing techniques and creating new ones in order to drive sales , especially in the past decade. We are talking about marketing apps and the extent to which marketers rely on them.

Over the years, the marketer’s role has evolved dramatically. One is constantly thinking about devising new campaigns and strategies that will attract more audience, while constantly facing competition. However, your voice needs to be heard because the future of your business is depending on it. This is where mobile marketing apps step into the game. Without further ado, these are some of the latest marketing apps that are considered a marketer’s best friend to increase sales.

5 Best Marketing Apps to Drive Sales

1. Tint

Social media engagement and marketing is an extremely important element of the majority of modern marketing tactics. It helps business owners attract potential customers, drive sales and traffic, and increase revenue. Tint is an app that offers a less hectic way to consume social media. By using this tool, you can create social hubs, pull content from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn onto your dashboard, and embed them as custom feeds into websites like Tumblr, Wix, or Word Press, on social pages, mobile apps, video walls and digital displays. It is a great way to publish all information about your brand from different social media platforms in one place.

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2. Buffer

For every successful business person, time is an important asset. You are busy and cannot take a break every hour, but need to keep your social media accounts updated with great and engaging content. This is where the Buffer app jumps in. It is a content distribution app that automates your social media posts and lets you schedule them to be published at ideal times. With a free account, Buffer allows you to manage one Facebook (profile or page), Twitter, and LinkedIn account with up to ten updates in your scheduler (buffer). For just $10 a month, you can have unlimited posts in your buffer, and manage up to 12 social media profiles. Buffer offers a variety of extensions and apps, which allow you to use it on different web browsers and platforms. The app is available for Android and iOS devices.

3. Quora

Quora is among the best digital marketing reference apps. It is another great platform for those looking for information from reliable sources. You can ask questions and get real answers from people with expertise, and there is an option to post blogs as well. The app (available for Android and iOS devices) invites users to help each other by contributing and sharing their own knowledge. Users engage with each other by thanking for responses and voting for answers. It is a vibrant space where people sincerely contribute their knowledge, which is a rare thing in the online discourse.

4. Yoobly

This marketing software is designed as a network marketing training tool. Yoobly offers a network marketing CRM, with which users can create a website and manage its landing pages, buy a domain, keep their contacts organized, and manage new leads. They offer great tutorials on everything related to modern marketing, from setting up social media accounts to improving sales performance. If you have no experience with online marketing, there is also a 6 month mentoring program where Yoobly experts will help you design your own campaigns and strategies, and implement them.

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5. Mention

Mention is there to help you keep track of what is being said about your brand by sending you alerts, showing your mentions every day. This social media analytics tool has an intuitively designed interface. Mention gives user all analytics data for every single alert, and presents it in an easy-to-read chart on a single page. It is quite easy to use and enables its users to quickly react to every mention of their brand in real time.

It seems that mobile apps come into our marketing conversations often these days. They are there to save us time, improve and aid our marketing tactics, help us reach wider audiences, drive sales, and provide important analytics data. It would be hard to imagine today’s business landscape without them, when we have become accustomed to doing our work from the cloud, having every single answer at our fingertips, and communicating with people across the globe in real time. Whichever app you choose, make sure you fully use all of its helpful features to increase sales.

So, what are your favorite marketing apps?

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