Does social media force companies to be more honest? Or just an illusion?

Companies these days must provide true value in order to survive in the market, making false claims and only advertising tactics can not save a poor developed product/ service anymore. The reason it happened is that the new online catalogs are no longer under companies’ websites, but they are spread all over social media with [...]


Why Online Ads still work
(at least for now)

I used to spend so much on online ads for different campaigns with Google Adwords, Facebook, and other smaller pay-per-click programmes. Online-ads are “still” popular because people don’t need much knowledge to launch it, also a very measurable tactic which shows people the return on investment in the most direct way. Why do people click [...]


In the Google era, your CV does not matter (really)

People usually spend most of their time creating their unique and perfect résumés. It is true that almost all companies require résumé when they are looking to hire, but is resume as important as we think? When I put the topic of the post, I lied, résumé does matter, but not in the way that [...]


Why everyone should ignore SEO now

Many new business owners ask me what to do with their new brands, they ask me if they should invest in search engine optimization for their websites so that their new sites can be more “visible” on the online world. Here’s the sad news for them, SEO doesn’t mean anything at all, SEO shouldn’t be [...]


Social Media Killing Electronics Sales Rep Jobs?

Do you still remember those times when you saw interesting advertisement on TV about this new “discman”, which made you wanted to run to the electronic store immediately and learn everything about it? Yes, that was the time when sales reps were on high demand. Consumer electronics sales rep jobs are slowly declining because of [...]


The end of Newspaper is coming “soon”

When is the Dooms Day, where’s the next tsunami, and more recently, when is the end of Newspapers. There are thousands of people who have tried to “predict” the end of newspaper, like psychics and fortune tellers, predictions are just estimations that don’t have enough back-up information. I’m not here to tell you when I [...]


“Passion” will beat Education in the future job market

Since we were young, most of us have been told that education/ knowledge was everything. Although many people still think that education is the key to success, I do think there’s something which is way more important than education, and it is passion. I will show you why I think employers in the future will [...]


Why Twitter is like your high school life

There are 4 basic reasons for me to meet people in school; Appearance (Twitter profile) School “reputation” Mutual friends When I heard something during short break that interest me, I would start talking to this person randomly (@replies), if the conversation went well, we would become friends (follow each other).


Amazon Kindle is better than you think

Amazon started to receive pre-orders of Kindle DX and will be shipping them out during this summer. First hands-on pictures, videos and reviews can be found on Engadget. For many reasons, many people don’t like the idea of Amazon Kindle as much as I do, one of the reasons is that many people prefer to [...]


Online and Offline socializing

Thousands of people jump into the game of social networking everyday. More than 90% of Internet users own at least one profile page from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, linkedIn, myspace and I can continue naming all the sites for the next hour. People spend more time on the Internet which somehow leads to [...]

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A Little Something About Tim:

Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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