http://www.adiree.com Luxury Brands Focused Globally Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.adiree.com/2012/01/04/to-pay-or-not-to-pay/#comment-975 Arthur Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:43:01 +0000 http://www.adiree.com/?p=2210#comment-975 I believe that many interns enter into our business (fashion/pr/social media/event planning) thinking they have it all figured out. Personally as a business owner, I realized- rather quickly- that many interns do not have the skill set required to even last one day in the fashion industry. For business owners of small to medium sized businesses it takes time and certainly resources to bring interns up to speed with the real world of business, fashion, beauty, pr. etc. Some interns are spectacular and AT LEAST deserve a stipend or a certain percentage of client income (if and only if they are doing work related to income generation). While others....well, let's just say they should consider photoshop lessons I personally take time out to give them as form of payment. Too many times I've seen interns call themselves social media gurus- writing a blog post and then simply posting one tweet about the blog post on twitter or facebook. Are you kidding me? What's worst is when the blog post was either A. an idea I forwarded them, or b. a blog post I already prepared and all they simply did was hit upload. : ( I believe that many interns enter into our business (fashion/pr/social media/event planning) thinking they have it all figured out. Personally as a business owner, I realized- rather quickly- that many interns do not have the skill set required to even last one day in the fashion industry. For business owners of small to medium sized businesses it takes time and certainly resources to bring interns up to speed with the real world of business, fashion, beauty, pr. etc. Some interns are spectacular and AT LEAST deserve a stipend or a certain percentage of client income (if and only if they are doing work related to income generation). While others….well, let’s just say they should consider photoshop lessons I personally take time out to give them as form of payment. Too many times I’ve seen interns call themselves social media gurus- writing a blog post and then simply posting one tweet about the blog post on twitter or facebook. Are you kidding me? What’s worst is when the blog post was either A. an idea I forwarded them, or b. a blog post I already prepared and all they simply did was hit upload. : (

]]> http://www.adiree.com/2011/09/20/should-twitter-fear-facebook/#comment-403 Mattie Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:33:01 +0000 http://www.adiree.com/?p=1665#comment-403 You're right. Twitter has nothing to worry about. But Facebook will never have anything to worry about. Not soon anyways. They're two completely different social networks that do two completely different things. Twitter is a micro blogging site that has power in how many people you can influence with 140 characters or less. Facebook is a juggernaut being that it's responsible over 56% of the web's shared content. With that being said, a Facebook fan is still more valuable than a Twitter follower. That's what brands and companies want to know. You’re right. Twitter has nothing to worry about. But Facebook will never have anything to worry about. Not soon anyways. They’re two completely different social networks that do two completely different things. Twitter is a micro blogging site that has power in how many people you can influence with 140 characters or less. Facebook is a juggernaut being that it’s responsible over 56% of the web’s shared content. With that being said, a Facebook fan is still more valuable than a Twitter follower. That’s what brands and companies want to know.

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