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The top 20 digital marketing, social and career posts from Firebrand in 2012

The top 20 digital marketing, social and career posts from Firebrand in 2012

It’s been a bumper year of thought leadership on our Firebrand Ideas Ignition blog with 115 new digital marketing, social, and career articles published in 2012. Below is a list of our top 20 most viewed [...]

10 essential personal branding tips for Twitter

10 essential personal branding tips for Twitter

Twitter can be an incredibly powerful personal branding tool if you take advantage of all the opportunities it presents. Many people are self-taught and sometimes it’s a case of “you don’t know what you don’t know”, [...]

13 things that really annoy people on LinkedIn

13 things that really annoy people on LinkedIn

Almost everyone I’m in contact with through business is on LinkedIn these days (and if you’re not, you should be). It’s a brilliant, professional, online business networking site and a place where you’re expected to promote [...]

Twitter for business: 18 things you should NOT do

Twitter for business: 18 things you should NOT do

Three and a half years on Twitter, for business, doesn’t sound like a long time, however in the world of social media — it is, believe me! I have learned so much along the way, building [...]

The best of the Firebrand Ideas Ignition blog: The top 15 posts from 2011

The best of the Firebrand Ideas Ignition blog: The top 15 posts from 2011

It’s hard to believe that the Firebrand Ideas Ignition blog is only 9 months old, having launched in March 2011. We’ve published a total of 90 thought leadership posts focusing on careers, personal branding, business advice [...]

Let’s talk salary (no, let’s not)

Let’s talk salary (no, let’s not)

It’s an interview tip often dished out to aspiring job seekers; don’t talk about your salary expectation during the interview. But what if your prospective employer does? Ahhhh, money. It makes dreams comes true when in [...]

Do you ever unplug and unwind?

Do you ever unplug and unwind?

Think back to your last holiday: did you turn off your phone, leave your computer in its bag (or even better, at the office) and laze about reading newspapers and magazines while spending much-needed time with [...]

First Day Jitters? Don’t Despair!

First Day Jitters? Don’t Despair!

Starting a new job – any new job – is hard. The initial euphoria of receiving and accepting that long-awaited offer soon develops, for many of us, into a feeling of nervousness as the big day, [...]

Emails: WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

Emails: WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

For all our best intentions to ‘get away from the desk’, ‘get out there’ and to ‘pick up the phone and talk to someone’, email remains the pervasive medium through which to communicate around the office. [...]

Excelling as a creative within a corporate environment can be a real challenge

Excelling as a creative within a corporate environment can be a real challenge

Want a ‘fish out of water’ moment? Picture a ‘capital C’ creative trying to find their way within a corporate environment! If you close your eyes you can almost see the corporate’s finance or HR team [...]