Truth be told; I have not graduated from college. I dropped out of the University of Central Florida, when I had two semesters of elective credits left unchecked on my degree audit. So one year ago, I cut the formal education section from my resume and never pasted it back. Because of a first-round interview question, asked by a hiring manager who never called back.

Content marketing is what I like to call nonchalant advertising because your content is so good that people do not even realize your marketing. A better definition of content marketing is: creating free, quality content that engages your company’s “buyer persona(s),” otherwise known as your specific target audience members, and keeps them coming back to your website.

The college internship: It's a rite of passage for students, one so critical to the college experience that if you Google the word "internship," more than 91.7 million results overtake the computer screen. It used to be that prospective interns had to scrape up on-the-job experience with the help of advisers and on-campus internship offices that worked with local companies to help ambitious students find businesses willing to put them to work.

Newspapers appear anxious to win the tarnished plaque hanging between exiled and unethical journalists Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair on the journalism wall of shame. Last Friday, the public radio program This American Life revealed that large, national organizations such as Tribune Co., the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle and the Chicago Sun-Times have been outsourcing their hyperlocal content to a company called Journatic.

Orlando College students are hooking up with rich older men through sugar-daddy websites. Is it modern romance, or just an easy way to the sweet life? She’s a busy sophomore at a big university in the South. She’s focusing on a double major in advertising/public relations and English, and she works part time in retail.

It’s likely you slid into a conservative career based on your college major and never looked back, according to Marc Bodnick, who leads Quora’s business team, on Business Insider. “As a recent college graduate, you probably had no idea what you wanted to do with your life,” Bodnick said. “You probably also had a narrow view of the career options available to you, a strong desire to make money, and an attraction to credentials and pre-defined milestones.

“My husband and I spent close to $250,000 in three years. From going to conferences and buying books and memberships to marketing clubs,” Kate said. “It’s probably more, but that is a conservative estimate.”. In spring 2013, Kate enrolled in a Harvard Extension digital marketing course on social media.

I hear some version of this statement nearly everyday, and my answer is always, “You have to be.”. Whether you’re a designer, developer, whoever, you need to be able to write well in a world where so much communication takes place via emails, text messages and Slack groups. Since we know writing can be a drag, we compiled the ultimate writing toolkit – a list of 22 fantastic tools and articles that will transform your writing.

While everyone was focused on optimizing their non-responsive websites for mobile the past month, Google quietly rolled out an algorithm tweak that was detrimental for some websites. HubPages, a website with a collection of more than 870,000 miniblogs covering everything under the sun, was one of those adversely effected by the secret update.

As it turns out, the update is not as bad as everyone made it out to be. Unfortunately though, Google isn’t the only one rolling out algorithm changes. Facebook has just announced that its updating its algorithm too, and it looks like things are going to get bleaker than they already are for the rest of us little guys out there trying to grow our businesses.

Less white space. Let’s use Comic Sans. How about those cheesy stock photos? Copy this website. Write a cleaver headline and tagline – like Twitter’s or Facebook’s. Oh, and add music to the homepage. The majority of the time we know what a client is requesting is just plain wrong. But how do you explain this to these clients from hell without saying: Hey, your taste in design sucks?

What do you do after you complete project for a client currently? I highly doubt, but hope, your answer is: conduct an exit interview. Every freelancer has felt this frustration: when you’re the little guy, you’re not the “safe” pick. The question, then, becomes: how do you, a scrappy, unproven solopreneur, become more of a sure thing?

Getting fired and being laid off are two very different paths to unemployment. Even so, the two are commonly mistaken for one another since they both lead you to being jobless. To help you navigate the difference, SkilledUp reached out to recruiters, headhunters, CEOs and people like yourself. Below are the five best responses, weeded down from nearly 50.

More than half of all heads of companies cite creativity as the most important leadership article. At least that’s what Fast Company magazine says.1. “Creativity is at an all-time high, inspiring people around the world. We are in an exciting era for marketing and advertising, when marketers are choosing between creating a 6-hour commercial or a 6-second Vine,” Stacy Martinet has said.2.

More people than ever hold college degrees yet only 39% of graduates under the age of 25 are unemployed or underemployed. Of those who have jobs, “nearly 80% of those in their 20s said they wanted to change careers,” Reuters reports. It is safe to say you most likely know someone who wants to change careers or who wants to land a entry-level job.

More people than ever hold college degrees yet only 39% of graduates under the age of 25 are unemployed or underemployed. Of those who have jobs, “nearly 80% of those in their 20s said they wanted to change careers,” Reuters reports. It is safe to say you most likely know someone who wants to change careers or who wants to land a entry-level job.