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The 5 Laws of Pinning
April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pinterest is a social media site that is gaining attention and gaining it fast. The site has been around for two years now, but only started gaining a lot of users these past few months. It is said to be the fastest growing social media site today. And because our customers are getting on it, let’s take a look at some of the advantages that the new site can offer to our personal brand or our small business. Pinterest is a place where you can share images and videos. You can post images and videos that interest you and share them with your followers. On the business and marketing side of it, you can take advantage of the site to share your business through visuals, build a network, and drive traffic to your blog site.
Buzz Master: Miguel Hernandez hits 100 users in 48 hrs with new course. Learn how he did it.
April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Miguel Hernandez, Udemy instructor and CEO of Grumo Media, had 100 subscribers to his new course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, within 48 hours! Here’s how he did it: “As soon as I finished my course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, I decided to test the theory of providing incentives to users and creating a sense urgency. This is the first time I’ve used this approach, and my experience has validated that it works. Basically, I used the same techniques that Groupon uses. Through my classes and business contacts I collected student e-mails, facebook, twitter etc. But the FIRST people I reached out to were the students enrolled in my other courses. As soon as I finished the course: I made a course announcement to all the people taking my demo video course and sent an email to 500 people on my email list. I told them “Because you’re an existing student I’ll give you a really juicy discount of 75% off,AND it’s a limited time offer AND there’s only 100 left.” That really enticed people to go out and get the course.
2012 Social Media Demographics: An Infographic
April 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I know not everyone is a fan of infographics, but I love them. Sure, they’ve been done to death at conferences and meetings, but nothing beats an eye-catching graphic to quickly highlight important data within complex statistics. Today I was searching online for the latest social media usage statistics to incorporate into a presentation I am giving and I stumbled upon this brilliant infographic put together by OnlineMBA.com. Click on image for a larger view: Here are the highlights: Social Media Usage: More than 66%of adults online in America are connected to one or more social media platforms. 67% of Americans use social media to stay in touch with their friends. 64% of Americans use social media to stay in touch with family.
Meet Your Instructors: Huw Collingbourne
March 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
When you open a platform up for anyone to teach, there’s a good chance you’ll get a lot of riff-raff. Somehow, though, we here at Udemy have been stupid lucky with talent. Take Huw Collingbourne, for instance. He’s one of our top rockstar Ruby instructors, and let’s just put it this way: the Dos Equis guy ain’t got nothin’ on Huw Collingbourne. If that’s not enough to intrigue you beyond comprehension, here are a few quick facts to get you primed for the interview below. Huw’s been a programmer for more than 30 years, and currently holds the position of Technology Director at SapphireSteel Software. He’s also written a handful of books, including The Book of Ruby (he’ll explain later why there’s a Samurai Robot on the cover)
