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Since it was bought by social networking giant Facebook, the photo sharing app Instagram has become integrated into a lot of people’s marketing strategies. Through Facebook, you can run Facebook Ads on Instagram, promoting your Facebook page, website or product, and you can use Instagram to keep people abreast of what’s happening in your business. […]

Do you want something better from life? Are you tired of working for someone else? Perhaps you have what it takes to start your own business and become a success. Perhaps you don’t. Let’s face it, most people think they could be their own boss, run their own business and do a better job of […]

We recently published an eBook on tracing a fake Facebook profile. It talks you through the process of how you capture information about the person who created the fake profile, and what to do with that information once you have captured it. The process explained in the eBook isn’t hypothetical and isn’t theory – it’s […]

A few years ago, I was asked to find out the identity of someone who had created a fake Facebook profile. The fake profile was pretending to be someone else and was sending offensive messages to that person’s friends. Nobody knew who had created it, or why, and it was posting some very hurtful comments. […]

Many people in business believe that appearance is essential. How you look and how you dress dictates how you’re received by others. While, in many ways, this is true you should be very wary of judging others based on their appearance, as you could end up dismissing someone who could be very valuable to you […]

With more businesses offering work to freelance writers over the internet, there are more opportunities to write for a living than ever. This has, obviously, made working as a freelance writer very popular and those looking for work need to differentiate themselves from their competition in order to win, and keep, the best writing contracts. […]

You may have heard a lot of people talking about ‘blogging’ over the last few years, and about how it’s important for businesses to succeed online, but just how important is it? Why does it work? What can you really get by blogging for your business website? Perhaps you’re one of those people who is […]

We’re giving away £10 in Marks and Spencer vouchers to one lucky winner in our first social media competition. There are two ways you can enter, on Facebook or on Twitter. You can, of course, enter on both for double the chance of winning. After the closing date on July 31st we’ll randomly draw a […]

Here at the Online Learning Academy, we’re always sharing great tips on working for yourself, setting up your own business and marketing it. One of our favourite tools for doing this is Twitter, and we even have a diploma course on the microblogging site so you can become a master of it yourself. On our […]

To become truly successful, you need to find what it is that motivates you. What drives you. You need to find that thing in the back of your head that keeps you going when everyone else has long since given up. But how? The question ‘what motivates you’ is a classic interview question you may […]

This Friday sees the third annual ‘Bring your dog to work day’ across the UK, with businesses up and down the country opening their doors to their employees’ four-legged friends. While the day was created as a means to raise money for the dog charity ‘all Dogs Matter’, and has its own website and hashtag […]

There are many different ways to share your website’s content via Facebook, but none of them allow your content to be displayed in a really nice format within Facebook, complete with images, video and sharing options. That was, at least, until Facebook launched its new service ‘Instant Articles’. Instant Articles is specifically for smartphone users, […]

We set up the Online Learning Academy as we firmly believe in the work-life-balance concept and we hope that others will be able to take what they learn from our courses to benefit their own lives. We believe it’s important to follow your dreams, wherever they may take you, and that you shouldn’t be restricted […]

Increasing the number of likes on your Facebook page is something most business owners try to do. It expands the audience on Facebook so more people will see your posts, and it makes you look more credible as a business. A page with a large Facebook following will be able to share its updates, generate […]