Helps small businesses manage orders and use social media to compete with larger chains. #NewsismyBusiness
In a big way, this book seems more like just another discography, or tale about Nashville, or stardom, but look between the lines. #NewsismyBusiness
At Home Education Center launches a summer program in Arecibo to help teens develop their first business idea. #NewsismyBusiness
The six-part series is designed to provide tools for economic independence. #NewsismyBusiness
Puerto Rican professor Omar Pérez-Figueroa said the research served as a case study to test and refine a framework for examining disaster social media communication. #NewsismyBusiness
Influencers are people with sizable social media followings who can influence their followers’ behavior as consumers. #NewsismyBusiness
Triple-S Foundation-sponsored workshop focuses on using social media to connect communities and combat loneliness. #NewsismyBusiness
The challenge is to keep the channels open amid the fog of manipulation.
Nowadays, being an entrepreneur in a medium like ours is a real challenge. Well, let’s be honest, the obstacles we have to cross are many, and the support we have is almost null. Moreover, we could say that we live in an environment where entrepreneurship is not welcome. If you are one of the few […]
Social media is one huge “Tabula Rasa” where anyone with an interesting product or story can start a business.
Even when the main role of social media is to connect with friends, it has an impact on the evaluation process of the brands they search for and the consumer path to purchase.
The easy access to them promotes free expression by creating communities that are of great interest to the brands that have ventured into the digital world, by maintaining their presence in the networks.
Puerto Rican Social media expert Celeste Martínez will be one of the speakers at the 10th edition of EXMA (EXPOMARKETING), Latin America’s largest marketing event to be held in Bogota, Colombia in May.
Two years after making its debut in the Puerto Rico market, Washington-based Solavei has found success through its first-of-its kind social networking and commerce platform that enables customers to sign up for mobile voice and data services at a fraction of the competition’s cost.
H+K Puerto Rico recently acquired a license for the use of the Sysomos Media Analysis Platform, a research and analytics platform for social media and web-based news media.
“In an economic context where Puerto Rico is experiencing a clear slowdown and where key sectors like construction are struggling to find workers, cutting the [Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)] will discourage participation in the formal economy and hinder our economic growth.
In an environment where federal funds are decreasing, adding local austerity through EITC cuts could not only cause our labor force participation rate to drop again, but also force local businesses to absorb much of the reduction if they want to maintain the current incentives for formal employment and prevent part of their workforce from returning to the informal sector.”
— Daniel Santamaría-Ots, co-executive director, Espacios Abiertos
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