I’m sorry I haven’t posted for a while – I’ve been really busy with the business having just moved offices. I’ve also been busy working on a lot of new stuff – will explain all in the New Year.
Anyway, I’m writing this post because I thought you may want to have a quick laugh prior to XMAS.
A few years ago, one of my properties was trashed by some really nice tenants of mine – I call them “Tenants From Hell”. Although, I’d be the first one to admit, the property wasn’t in too bad a shape – I’ve seen much much worse – I had a video camera with me at the time and did a quick video and uploaded it to YouTube.
Last week, I was on YouTube uploading some new content and I found my old video aptly entitled “Tenants From Hell”:
If you want to have a bit of fun, why don’t you read some of the comments on this video – some of the comments certainly made me laugh.
I’d appreciate some feedback whether you’re a Landlord or Tenant – you can comment directly on YouTube.
Best of Luck for the New Year.
Javaid Kiyani
ps. If you haven’t yet claimed your free Property CD, you can still do so – I’ve just had a new batch come in:
Today, a lot of us live our lives online and we believe what we read on the internet. The scary thing is that if you’re currently using Social Media sites, then you already have an Online Identity.
Do you know what your Online Identity is?
As a professional, you need to be building your brand presence online otherwise Google will give you a presence whether good or bad. A healthy online brand presence can massively enhance your career or business. An unhealthy one can destroy you.
Believe it or not, somebody somewhere is searching for you on an almost daily basis. Whether it’s your future employer, a business colleague, a client or even your fiancé’s parents, people are going to judge you on what they see about you on Google.
If someone is searching for you and can’t find anything at all about you, they will assume that you have nothing of value to add or that you are hiding something.
Here’s a few handy tips that you need to follow to ensure a healthy online presence:
1. Ensure you own your own name as a URL and also your own handle on the main Social Media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Your Website can host your Online CV which is an absolute must for anyone with a career or business. Your Social Media sites can link to your website and vice versa. The more you link, the more overall brand presence you will get.
You can also use simple offline marketing strategies to enhance your online branding, by adding your website details to all your marketing material for example your business cards and hence draw people to your website.
2. Keep your online presence professional even when you’re being personal, for example when posting pictures up on Social Media sites. You never know whose Googling you.
3. Clean up all your profiles. This could take a while, but needs to be done. Intimately check all your posts on Social Media sites and untag yourself from those unsavoury photos and videos.
4. Be consistent across all your sites. For example, use the same or similar photos on your website as you have on your Social Media pages purely for branding and recognition purposes.
5. Be careful of what you write on Social Media sites and in forums as everything you do on the internet will be there for life and will point back to you. Your online activities can help the reader build a clear picture of who you are as a person, and you don’t want the wrong signals to be sent out.
6. Update your social media sites at least once a week. This shouldn’t take more than a few minutes and helps to keep your sites ‘alive’. Talk about your interests and achievements to add some depth to who you are as a person.
7. Register with Google Alerts to set up notifications of any mentions of your name on websites and news stories etc. This is a great way to monitor searches of your name online and an indication of what others may see when searching for you.
Of the above, having your own Online CV website is the most powerful way for you to brand yourself. If you don’t yet have an Online CV, you can get one today by visiting this link:
Twitter is a very valuable resource especially when it comes to looking for a job, or a contract if you’re a business owner. Here, I will discuss just a few of the strategies you can use on Twitter to help you to source that ideal job or contract.
· Utilise your Twitter Bio. Here you have only 160 characters to promote yourself. If you’re looking for a job opportunity, you need to mention this here. If you’re looking for clients and contracts, you need to talk about your skills and how you can help others achieve their goals via your skills, all within 160 characters. Finally, your bio should point to a website, ideally your Online CV which will provide much more detail about you and your achievements.
· Make use of your Twitter background. There’s a lot of space here that you could utilise. As a minimum, you could add details of your websites and perhaps key skills and responsibilities, if you’re looking to attract a job or client.
· Be sure to post relevant details on Twitter. For example, if you’re an architect, you may want to talk about, buildings that inspire you. This shows your interest in architecture and would certainly gain you brownie points in the eyes of any future employer.
Head-hunters and recruiters use Twitter to hunt out suitable candidates and you need to ensure that the information you post is relevant to any job or contract that you may be attracted to.
If you don’t yet have a website to include in your bio, you need to get this as a matter of urgency. The best website for job seekers, to have in their bio and to tweet about, is an Online CV.
Today, it’s possible to get yourself an Online CV for less than your weekly food shop. You need to do this today, otherwise you may find your job, contract or client going to somebody else.
Click the clink below to get your Online CV Today:
With almost a Billion users, Facebook is huge and its power and reach can no longer be underestimated. It’s important to understand that Facebook is not just a utility for social interaction. You can also use it to find a job or to gain clients for your business.
Before I talk about the various strategies you can use, I think it might be worthwhile for you to firstly review your privacy settings to ensure that any private information that you post remains private and cannot be seen by current or potential employers.
To be searchable to the outside world, you may want to allow ‘everyone’ to search for you and view your education and work history. This is the kind of information that future employers would be searching for. You will also want to add your website to your profile and make it viewable to everyone. This is where your Online CV can ‘sell’ your experience in much more detail than facebook. Having an additional website to a basic Facebook profile shows your professionalism and creativity and that you are able to harness the latest technology in a fast changing world.
In your settings, you can also ‘privatise’ your wall posts and photos if these are of a sensitive nature.
Through strategic status updates, you can indicate your availability for work and contracts if you are a business owner.
If you haven’t yet got an Online CV, you can do so via this special link:
LinkedIn is an invaluable tool regardless of whether you’re a Business Owner or professional employee. As a Business Owner, you can highlight your products and services and drive prospects to your websites.
However, LinkedIn does have its limitations. There’s only so much that you can put on your profile page. Here’s where your Online CV comes into its own. Your Online CV can act not just as an extension to your LinkedIn profile, but can fill in any gaps in your profile. Your Online CV can go into as much detail as you like or can provide a brief overview of your skills and responsibilities if you so desire. Your Online CV can show photos and videos also.
As a Business Owner, your LinkedIn profile should link back to your Online CV to provide other business owners a deeper insight into how you run your business and the types of clients you have worked with. This is hugely invaluable because as we all know “people do business with people”, and the more your client knows about you, the more they will trust you and want to do business with you.
As a professional, LinkedIn allows you to explore other businesses and job opportunities that may be of interest to you. Your personal LinkedIn profile should link back to your Online CV which will provide more detail of your career history, skills, responsibilities, achievements and personal interests.
Once you have your Online CV set up, you can start publishing your Online CV URL on all your marketing material including for example your business cards, email signatures and newsletters, websites and brochures. Our research has shown this to result in many more business enquiries and job offers for those seeking employment.
If you don’t yet have your Online CV, you can get one via this special link:
You may have asked yourself the above questions before and have always intended to do something about it but have never got round to it. Does this sound like you?
Did you know that thousands of domains are registered every single day, and unless you currently own your own domain name, somebody else will buy it and use it in a way that may not agree with you. If you do own your own domain name and have not yet got a website on it, then there’s a strong danger that somebody else could claim your domain.
The quickest way to get yourself a website today is via an Online CV. Whether you have a business or work for a living, you NEED to get your own domain name in your own name and have a website, ideally your CV on that domain.
Furthermore, once you have your own domain, you can also get your professional email address as opposed to a hotmail or Gmail account.
