“You are a social media manager, Stacy. All you do is tweet and stare at your phone screen all day. That’s nothing.”   Grrr! If one more person tells me that, I’m going to go all DC Sniper on their *deleted due to graphic content*. Most people only see a tiny part of what social...

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First post of the year! Woot! This one was seriously difficult to write. I’ve lost my voice! I’m trying to write for my blog and it’s just feels all wrong. This has never happened to me before — Stacy-Ann Hayles (@stacyannhayles) January 7, 2015 Over the past four years, small businesses have hired me to...

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As a small business owner, you probably run your business on your own and wear many different hats each day. You know social media is important and that it can have a tremendous impact on your business but you have little time to spend on it. You may h...

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It’s hard out there for a traditional media house… Now that digital media offers real-time updates of the latest news and current affairs and entertainment, traditional media outlets feel pressured to release news stories as quickly as possible; paying more attention to being first, and not to the accuracy of the content and grammar of...

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As a person with experience in social media and public relations, the Lisa Hanna situation definitely caught my attention. Prior to the bikini photo that has gotten the attention of the mainstream media, I was quite uncomfortable with the direction in ...

I wonder if our ancestors ever thought that productivity would be the big business it is today. There are entire websites, applications, and businesses build solely on helping people to be more productive. And here comes the kicker… The amount of time we spent researching, testing and switching between productivity apps actually makes us less productive....

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Jamaicans who use PayPal as an income stream have only one option to transfer this money to Jamaica – by requesting a cheque from PayPal and depositing it at a local bank. This process is long and tedious and, quite frankly, ridiculous in this modern age. I was recently introduced to Payoneer by Yaneek Page...

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Have you noticed the #tiguansummer hashtag on your timeline lately? It keeps popping up on mine, so I couldn’t help but delving a bit deeper to find out what it’s all about. Many will remember a couple years ago when they did the ATL Group Unbeatable Flash Mobs in Half Way Tree, New Kingston, Ocho...

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