Crowdfunding Real Estate investing is a strategic way to diversify your portfolio while creating a secondary income stream. Historically, participating in private real estate deals was all about who you knew but real estate crowdfunding has changed things in a big way. With the passage of the JOBS Act and the SEC’s recent Title III ruling, accredited and non-accredited investors now have a new way to gain entry to this asset class. Real Estate Crowdfunding Basics Real est

The digital revolution has rocked the music business for more than a decade, changing the way we buy, play and discover new music. In this post, I’ll show you the importance of data collection in the music industry and how this process can help new bands to outreach their upcoming consumers the right way. Music Listeners Demographics Bob Dylan said that the times were a changing in the mid-1960’s. Truer today than he, or anyone could have dreamed of, the world of the musician

Let’s Talk About Growth! Leaders of international development organizations constantly face the challenge of needing more funding. Moreover, impact-driven entrepreneurs are always looking for ways to scale up their operations, to reach more people and improve more lives. Finding new donors and investors to fund this impact and expansion often comes with the cost of incorporating the opinions and vision of the investors into the enterprise’s business plan. Finding Impact st

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Facebook’s legal struggles continue. As we discussed yesterday, the company faces (and disputes) new allegations that it previously shared user data with smartphone device makers without consent. It was also sued today by Washington state for failing to comply with campaign finance laws. Google was also named in the complaint. Both companies are charged by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson with not maintaining proper records and information about buyers of political a

ONE LMEDIA Creating awesome short videos is easier than ever…if you know where to look. There are literally thousands of video editor apps designed specifically for Instagram, but most of them are absolute garbage. So we put together this list of the 15 Best Instagram Video Apps so you can stop wasting your time trying sifting through trash, and dedicate yourself to master mobile video editing with apps that are worth the small learning curve. And if you’re a marketer, bus

According to Social Media Today... While Facebook’s been busy announcing new privacy and transparency features in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, they’ve also been forced to address a range of additional details that have been uncovered as part of the broader examination of the network's practices. Among those previously unreported or lesser known disclosures have been: Facebook has been tracking details of SMS and call data on Android devices, and storing that

Analyzing and measuring your campaign’s success (or lack thereof) is essential in your social media marketing development, and in strengthening your social media strategy or campaigns. One way to analyze the success of a campaign, or to measure the growth of your reach, is to get into the habit of creating a dedicated hashtag for the campaign, and then tracking its results. Paid hashtag tracking tools can be expensive, but they do make the process a lot less laborious. For th

These days, most marketers talk up the value of inbound marketing over outbound marketing. In case you aren’t familiar, outbound marketing tactics are more conventional marketing and advertising methods that require some form of targeted outreach, such as billboard ads or radio spots. Inbound marketing tactics are more concerned with establishing a presence that naturally invites people to your organization, usually through the provision of valuable materials (like informat

Okay... So,  According to TechCrunch, files in Instagram’s code suggest that the Facebook-owned app is planning to launch audio and video calling options, giving you more ways to stay in touch without leaving the platform. This would add to Instagram’s popular direct messaging capabilities – which they’ve upgraded over the last 12 months, and would further compliment their live-stream guests option, which gives users a means to connect, in real time, through the app. Insta