Social media and music: If social media be the food of love…

I have helped several music centred organisations including Most Entertaining, one of Scotland’s foremost music tuition companies and the world renowned Scottish National Jazz Orchestra led by saxophonist Tommy Smith. I’ve brought focus to their thoughts on how social media might be harnessed to their advantage. I have already posted…

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Recruitment via social media: Are recruitment consultants a dying breed?

As a candidate for executive positions my experience of recruitment companies is fairly uniform. Normally I will only sign up with a recruitment consultant as part of the process of application for a particular post I have already found on the internet. The recruiter, acting as a middle man filtering…

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Wake up and smell the coffee – Twitter works!

Here’s an interesting story on Twitter success in the coffee shop business written by Erik Bratt at MarketingProf. ” The Coffee Groundz Company: Started in 2007, the Coffee Groundz is a coffee shop, bar and all-round “hang-out” joint.  Twitter address: @coffeegroundz  The Houston-area coffee shop was just another coffee shop—until it…

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