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Young professionals have the world at their fingertips. You’re young and have plenty of time to explore the career opportunities you have. Along with others your age, you also have the power to transform the current climate of work. The Department for Professional Employees reports that as of 2020, the 28 million young professionals aged between 18 and 34 comprise over 30% of the American workforce.

At the same time, all the possibilities these factors create can be overwhelming. Sure, you can pave your own career path — but the question is: how exactly should you get started? Below are a few pieces of advice that you can use to start your professional life on the right foot.

Make Long-Term Plans

Though you don’t need to set everything in stone, try to get a general idea of where you’re headed. Maybe you want to establish a startup in your industry within five years or become a partner at a prestigious law firm within 10. This helps you establish what you need to do to get where you want to be. You’ll find that there are things you need to start doing today, while other tasks can wait. With every item crossed off your list, you’ll be that much closer to your career goals. Entrepreneur Haris Reis summed it up nicely in Episode 360 of Breakthrough Success: “I started with the end in mind.”

Build Your Network

Your professional network will form the backbone of your professional life: it helps you exchange ideas, forge valuable business contacts, and open new doors for your career. That’s why talent advisory specialist LHH recommends maximizing your network connections as soon as possible. Join all the industry-related events you can find, whether they are seminars or webinars. Find online communities on sites like Slack and Reddit to discover the influential voices in your line of work. Use LinkedIn to connect to like-minded individuals you can refer to later on. These steps might even lead you to find your mentor — an industry expert who can pass on their knowledge to you.

Develop New Skills

Slowly but surely, industries are letting go of degree-based hiring and adopting skill-based recruitment practices, instead. Regardless of your occupation, this means that you have to stay competitive by adding niche, in-demand skills to your professional arsenal. Today, it’s not enough to have a degree in computer science or software development: employers are clamoring for people with advanced expertise in data analytics and cybersecurity. Find the gaps in your job market and learn relevant skills to match. By doing so, you’ll be future-proofing your career.

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Roll up your sleeves and take on things you’ve never had the courage to do. Take on a new and challenging responsibility at work, apply for that job you’ve been eyeing, or learn a new skill that’s been intimidating you. In the process, you’ll learn more about yourself. You’ll discover your strengths and weaknesses while learning how to enhance one and improve on the other. Find joy in what you do, keep an open mind, and bring yourself to places you’ve never even imagined. You might even find an opportunity to take your career in a promising and unexpected direction.

Probably the most important thing to do when beginning your professional career is knowing where to start. Hopefully, these nuggets of knowledge help you lay the groundwork for future success and encourage growth in both yourself and your career.

What goes into growing a business? Assembling the right team and constantly learning about your industry give you an edge, but what else can we do. Tom Oswald joins us to share how he grew ClickASnap and shared some business growth strategies.

About Our Guest

Tom Oswald is an entrepreneur and the founder of ClickASnap. ClickASnap is an online photo sharing platform that helps photographers earn from their work. ClickASnap currently generates over 1 million image views per day.

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YouTube ads can ignite your brand’s growth and introduce you to a steady stream of new prospects. These ads provide superior targeting capabilities and provide numerous data points to dissect. They can look complicated to beginners which is why we’re talking about YouTube ads in the latest Breakthrough Success episode.

About Our Guest

Shash Singh runs an Linx Digital, an agency that has generated their clients over 8 figures in revenue. Shash has worked with clients like Prodigy Game, Kinobody, Amazing Selling Machine and more. With multi-7 figures under ad spend management, Shash’s agency is one of the leading YouTube ad agencies in the game.

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What happens inside a publicly traded company? These companies have higher expectations and more people analyzing their results. How do these companies continue growing and pleasing shareholders. We’ll discuss what goes inside a publicly traded company with our latest guest.

About Our Guest

George Holmes joined Resonant in 2016. Prior to joining Resonant, he served as Chief Commercial Officer for Tigo Energy, where he was responsible for expanding the company’s demand creation activities. From 2013 to 2015, he worked for Energous, first as Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing then as Chief Commercial Officer where he was responsible for securing development and licensing agreements, overseeing IP strategy and process and spearheading regulatory strategy and tactics.

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We all face setbacks. The business doesn’t produce revenue like it used to, and we can face personal challenges too. These obstacles sting in the moment, but we must rise above them. It’s time for you to make the ultimate comeback.

Lisa Gable, author of the book Turnaround, joins us to share how we can change course when things are going south. Adjustments will set you up for your ultimate comeback. You’ll learn plenty of insights from this episode including how to break down the past and visualize your future.

About Our Guest

Lisa Gable has served four U.S. presidents and two governors, counseled Fortune 500 CEOs, and represented global public-private partnerships and nonprofits with an end goal of moving organizations to higher levels of performance.

She is the founder of FARE, the world’s leading non-governmental organization engaged in food allergy advocacy. FARE is also the largest private funder of food allergy research. Their mission is to improve the quality of life and the health of individuals with food allergies, and to provide them hope through the promise of new treatments.

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This is a guest contribution from Melissa Andrews, the Content Marketing Strategist at ArXe Ventures

Instagram is huge. And it’s getting bigger every day. According to Statista, there were more than 1 billion users on Instagram in 2021 and that number has only been growing since then.

Over 100 MILLION posts are shared on Instagram every day. That’s a lot of posts, right?

So how do you make your Instagram posts more popular, with all those photos out there? It takes both time and effort, but there are some simple ways to help your Instagram posts rise above the noise…

1 . Tag Inspiring People

Remember when I said there were more than 1 billion active users on Instagram?

That means if someone sees your Instagram post on their feed, it’ll be less likely to get noticed amidst all the noise if you don’t tag any other users.

On the flip side of that same coin, tagging accounts that are relevant/interesting will help your posts get more exposure. This can be anything like an account you recently stumbled upon (but would like to feature in your post) or someone who could potentially influence your photo’s popularity.

For example, let’s say that you’re wearing the cutest dress and you’d like to share it with all your friends/followers. Instead of just posting it by itself, take a screenshot of the product page where you bought it and tag the retailer. If the retailer has accounts on Instagram, they might repost your photo if their followers like it enough!

2 . Use Creative Hashtags

Creatively using hashtags will get you more engagement than just using plain-Jane hashtags. Here are some examples: use only single words, add emojis (be careful not to overdo it #🔥), or make up your own branded hashtags. For example, ArXe Ventures found some of their clients more than tripled their exposure, once they used relevant hashtags.

Remember: Multiple posts that use the same hashtags will be found together, so using the same hashtag multiple times in a post is okay. However, don’t go overboard and spam your posts with the same hashtag.

3 . Be Trendy

Using trends in your Instagram feed can be a huge help for getting likes, comments, and exposure. Since trends can be fickle, it’s recommended to look at what hashtags people are using on Instagram and add those into your posts (instead of using the actual phrase, like “flexing”).

To find the most trending hashtags, Instagram’s explore page is a great place to start.

4 . Engage With Other Feeds

The most obvious way to make your Instagram posts more popular is to interact with other popular users’ feeds. When you comment on another user’s post, it’ll increase the likelihood of them commenting back or checking out your profile.

There are tons of easy ways for this to happen, but what’s important is that you comment and like on other users that are relevant to your interests and your target audience.

5 .  Don’t Forget Your Other Social Media Channels

In order to make your Instagram posts more popular, you need to share the love with all of your social media accounts. Don’t forget to link back to your other feeds from places like Twitter, Facebook, and even Pinterest!

This will help the reach of your posts and get more likes, comments, and shares. It’s all about cross-promotion!

6 . Be Consistent 

In order to make your Instagram posts more popular, you need a good strategy. Your posts shouldn’t be all over the place and they shouldn’t feature a thousand hashtags.

Keep it simple and post at intervals that work for you! If you go days without posting, don’t expect engagement on your feed. But if you’re consistently posting, you’ll generate more traction. There are even some tools out there such as Inflact (formerly known as Ingramer) which allow you to automatically schedule posts, and use a hashtag generator!

Take time to create a strategy that works for you and then stick to it!

7 . Don’t Be Salesy

Don’t go overboard with trying to sell people things in your Instagram posts. (And by going overboard, I mean you should RARELY do it.)

Most people check Instagram to forget about work and school and responsibilities for a little while – if you’re constantly trying to sell them on buying something or following your other social media channels, they’ll get annoyed very quickly.

Remember to give your Instagram feed some breathing room between posts about your products or services. (Think Gary V’s Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook concept.)

If you make it too salesy, people will stop following you and you’ll lose out on all of the potential exposure!

Conclusion

So there you have it – 7 easy ways to make your Instagram posts more popular. Remember that the best way to get more attention on your posts is to experiment, take risks, and work hard at being creative.

Don’t forget to leave a link to your own Instagram account in the comments section!