Last week I was asked by my college to share a presentation on the impacts of social media on community college athletes. I have taught two Social Media courses at Phoenix College since 2018 and genuinely love this topic focused on athletics as each semester my classes are typically made up by approximately 25% student-athletes.
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Top 3 Ways to Earn More from Your Short-Term Rental. It was 3am, and I couldn’t sleep. This time neither my 1-year-old nor my 2-year-old children was the culprit; Airbnb had done it to me again. My Personal Over-Reliance on Airbnb Airbnb is a platform that facilitates homeowners to rent their homes to guests looking
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There’s a moment in a mid 90’s episode of Seinfeld where Elaine suggests to Jerry that he looks stressed. Jerry hilariously responds, “Oh, I’m stressed.” As I rearrange my wedding dinner tables once again to adjust for the 30% (and growing) cancelation rate, I too, feel stressed. However, the cause of my stress is trying
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As an NBA fan and social media professor, I salivated at the thought of joining my two passions together in an article on the best NBA LinkedIn profiles. To put this article together as objectively as possible, I only selected from players that were starters on an NBA team, as documented by ESPN’s updated depth chart. My interest
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In the early 2000s, while attending afternoon marketing class at Ohio State, I always appreciated a good case study. I found case studies interesting as they represent a real thing that happened in the real world and not in a theoretical application. I am not alone in my taste for case studies; in fact, a
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A few weeks ago I was honored to win the 2021 Brillante Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from Prospanica. As I prepared my acceptance speech to share during the conference, it got me thinking about where my entrepreneurial spirit began. Selling Pizzas and Dreams It started on a cold Ohio day selling pizzas door to door.
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I’ve always been wary of used car salesman. As a teenager walking used car lots in Columbus, Ohio I figured out quickly that they were bad news. The more shoddy the Grand Prix, Cutlass, or Regal, the more these fully-suited merchants were going to try to hustle out of me. At the same time, in
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Once a week I receive Grammarly reports that provide stats on my writing and how I compare to other Grammarly users. I love this and recently sent a product request to the digital writing assistance tool for a feature that I think would be most useful; a summary of which adjectives and expressions I use
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Entrepreneur By Morning, Social Media Marketing Professor (Via Zoom) By Night By Andres Sanchez October 20, 2020 No Comments Below is our interview with Nativa Partner Eric Diaz, who also is a proud adjunct faculty member at Phoenix College (PC)! As of Fall semester 2020, Eric serves as a social media marketing professor for the
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OYE Multicultural Small Business Wins Award from the Phoenix Journal by Joaquin Arellano | Oct 11, 2019 | Press | 0 comments OYE Business Intelligence wins big as this multicultural small business wins the Phoenix Business Journal’s Small Business Award! OYE started off by Eric Diaz and Natasha Pongonis, CoFounders of OYE, seeing a need
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