Attention YGGer’s, we have brought you Carlos Miceli, the Director of Content for Untemplater and one of the founding members.  Don’t know about Untemplater?  You need to. Following a similar philosophy and objective as the YGG blog, Untemplater focuses on the new generation of entrepreneurs and sharing their stories & journeys to inspire, motivate, and inform young entrepreneurs.  Check it out.

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Everyone is talking about social media these days. Those who haven’t begun to enjoy the benefits of it are more than willing to learn more about it, so they too can turn their start-up or small business into a stable and profitable business.

Just like offline marketing, if you do something wrong in online marketing, you will ruin your business image. Plus, when it comes to online social media, bad news spreads like wildfire. So, if something goes wrong, you will become notorious all over the world before you even know it.
Are You Ready to Promote Your Brand on Social Media?
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There’s this guy I know who’s in his early 20s, going to college, and has his own athletic apparel company he’s starting up. The guy is definitely an entrepreneur at heart, and he has huge visions of things he wants to accomplish in the future. He’s absolutely convinced he’s going to be rich, and I truly hope everything works out for him.

There’s just one slight problem. He’s so eager to pursue his entrepreneurial efforts that he wants to drop out of school. He mentions it every time I see him, and I know it’s only a matter of time before he yields to his temptation.
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So, you’ve launched your small business, and now you’re ready to start growing a strong online presence. You enlist the services of an SEO company (or maybe you learn SEO and tackle the job yourself), and then, you wait. And you wait some more. You keep waiting. Then, you start losing your patience, and you consider pulling the plug on your SEO campaign.

But wait. Don’t ditch your SEO efforts just yet.

Look, I get that you want to see results as quickly as possible. We live in an instant satisfaction society, but that’s just not how SEO works. Good SEO takes time, and the key to getting results is sticking with proven SEO techniques for the long haul. In other words, you need to give your SEO efforts time to work.

So, why does SEO take time? Here are 5 reasons.
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I hope everyone had a productive week and I am sure most of you are looking forward to the weekend and maybe some recreation time?!? I wanted to end of the week at YGG with a great interview featuring Andrew Wise, he is doing a great job of living his life on his own terms and building quite a formidable business portfolio. You can check out more about him at his blog!

We know you’re a “Young Go Getter”, but so our readers know, how old are you?

I am 25 years old, and have been out of college for just 3 years.
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