As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered. Ryan Holmes More Quotes by Ryan Holmes More Quotes From Ryan Holmes Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients. Ryan Holmes newsocial-mediamediaworld Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered. Ryan Holmes projecthowcoreimpact Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand. Ryan Holmes newnew-thingsvisionremember The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration. Ryan Holmes bettergreatcollaborationtools While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities. Ryan Holmes jobsocial-mediaspaceway Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy. Ryan Holmes liveresultsocial-mediamedia Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on. Ryan Holmes leavebestthinkhands As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast. Ryan Holmes faceyouchallengestoday Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools. Ryan Holmes jobsocial-mediasupportcommunity We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare. Ryan Holmes reallybeenlefttools Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way. Ryan Holmes somethingyoulegacyway I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work. Ryan Holmes dayhard-workagework My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer. Ryan Holmes friendmy-ownresearchreal Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing. Ryan Holmes debatesocial-mediagrowthmedia An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually. Ryan Holmes youbusinesschangesuccess Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return. Ryan Holmes opinionswillyoufeedback If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place. Ryan Holmes meyousurprisebirthday As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Ryan Holmes parentsmecarpassion
