The idea of working from a home office sounds very appealing to many people. When you work from home, you never have to get out of your pajamas! You can lie in bed while you conduct important business transactions! You can cook and clean while you're trying to work! Sound about right? Maybe not.
Traveling for business is not always easy. If you travel to the same few cities every time you have to leave town for work, you might be used to the routine. But constantly being on the road, especially if you are entering foreign territory every time, can be a true challenge. Luckily, there are many apps for your smartphone that are designed to help you with just about anything you can imagine. Need to locate a bank? Want to find a convenient hotel room? Need access to free WiFi? No matter what you need, there's sure to be an app available to help make your life easier when you travel for work.
It is hard to believe that LinkedIn, the premium professional social networking site, is more than 10 years old. In 2014 alone, the company boosted its number of users to over 300 million. Perhaps just as surprising is that the company, with profits that jumped over 30 percent in 2014, reported that company page use went up from 24 percent to 57 percent. Just having a company page—which doesn't cost a penny and frequently appears at the top of many Google searches for companies—is virtually free exposure. But why stop there? LinkedIn has rapidly become one of the hottest markets in the world for advertising, with some industry experts predicting that it could very well become a one billion dollar marketplace in the near future. That makes the social network an ideal target for business-to-business (B2B) advertising. Let's take a look at how to get started advertising on LinkedIn.
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