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" LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context. "
Ryan Holmes
Media
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Social
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" The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies. "
Ryan Holmes
Future
Social Media
Role
" As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. "
Ryan Holmes
Passion
Car
Child
" As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast. "
Ryan Holmes
Goal
Research
Today
" Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day. "
Ryan Holmes
Me
School
Day
" I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work. "
Ryan Holmes
Home
Parents
Work
" Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered. "
Ryan Holmes
Project
Core
Any
" Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing. "
Ryan Holmes
Social Media
Communication
Way
" No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded. "
Ryan Holmes
Media
Social Media
Software
" Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows. "
Ryan Holmes
Help
Media
Social Media
" Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email. "
Ryan Holmes
Workplace
Media
Phone
" Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines. "
Ryan Holmes
Talent
Legacy
Roots
" An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually. "
Ryan Holmes
Success
Business
Change
" While consumer social like Facebook and Twitter gets the headlines, perhaps the greatest untapped potential for social networking lies in business applications. "
Ryan Holmes
Like
Potential
Networking
" The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one. "
Ryan Holmes
Company
Move On
You
" You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon. "
Ryan Holmes
You
Marathon
Run
" A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter. "
Ryan Holmes
You
Business
Collaboration
" Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control. "
Ryan Holmes
Ground
Investment
Go
" For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it. "
Ryan Holmes
Good
Web
Problem
" Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients. "
Ryan Holmes
Sales
Social Media
World
" Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow. "
Ryan Holmes
Job
Economy
Media
" One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next. "
Ryan Holmes
Principles
Important
Party
" We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare. "
Ryan Holmes
Tools
Left
Many
" Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works. "
Ryan Holmes
Game
Late
Lipstick
" From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom. "
Ryan Holmes
College
Humble
Media
" Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email. "
Ryan Holmes
Communication
Last
Social Media
" Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit. "
Ryan Holmes
Me
Seed
College
" It helps to look at branding as a challenge that entrepreneurs spend years perfecting. "
Ryan Holmes
Spend
Look
Challenge
" Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today. "
Ryan Holmes
Comfortable
Easy
Today
" It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not. "
Ryan Holmes
Coincidence
Social Media
Rise
" By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives. "
Ryan Holmes
Weak
Back
Successful