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Filecoin (FIL) Flips Chainlink (Connection) to Enter Top-Ten Crypto Rundown With 125% Week by week Gains

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Filecoin (FIL) has flooded a monstrous 30% just now to advance toward the best ten digital currencies list flipping predominant players like Chainlink (Connection). FIL, the 10th biggest digital currency by market cap has flooded a monstrous 125% throughout the most recent week by virtue of numerous advancements occurring.

At press time, Filecoin (FIL) is exchanging at a cost of $196.26 with a market cap of $12.4 billion. Filecoin, the blockchain-based decentralized stockpiling network created by Convention Labs has seen rising interest since the start of 2021. Filecoin permits clients to have complete power over their information while taking on large tech goliaths like Amazon and Google.

According to the most recent news, the absolute most mainstream projects like Wikipedia, Task Gutenberg, and OpenAQ are utilizing the Filecoin Organization to store their cherished information files.

Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, gnomAD, Undertaking Gutenberg, and OpenAQ are only a portion of the cherished information files put away on the Filecoin organization. Investigate a portion of these ventures on the Filecoin site:

— Filecoin  April 1, 2021

Filecoin (FIL) Diggers Making Forceful Wagers

Also, there’s a developing interest among crypto excavators to mine Filecoin. A week ago on Walk 27, the Filecoin group reported that Filecoin diggers and Liverpool excavators can co-mine FIL together. Additionally, a great deal of this digging interest for Filecoin is supposedly coming from China.

A week ago, nearby news distribution artificial intelligence Express announced that Shenzhen-based PC equipment producer Xinyuan Innovation has entered a monstrous worth of manage Jiangxi-based electronic part maker Sesumg. The two organizations have entered an arrangement for a “Circulated Stockpiling Center Undertaking” and submitted a huge $89 million request for IPFS (Filecoin) excavators.

On Tuesday, Walk 30, another Shanghai-based organization The9 Restricted marked a Filecoin mining machine buy and facilitating arrangement worth $2 million with a FIL mining specialist co-op. This is more than the $10 million FIL digger buy which the organization did in February 2021. The authority public statement notes:

“As of now, The9 possesses an autonomous hub on Filecoin blockchain and 8 Pebibytes of viable stockpiling mining power in the Filecoin organization. At the point when the two arrangements are completely executed, The9 is required to have an aggregate of in excess of 80 Pebibytes of compelling stockpiling mining power in the Filecoin organization.”

Another significant lift for Filecoin is that last month, Grayscale Ventures declared its new Filecoin Trust allowing institutional players to get openness to the cryptocurrency.

What is scaling?

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What is scaling?

Scaling is different from growth.

Growth is when a company is growing and increasing its revenue at an equal rate to adding new resources to achieve this growth. The company is in fact growing and making more money, but it is also spending that money at an equal rate. Thus in real terms, it is not increasing its profit margin. At least not short term.

Scaling is when a company adds revenue at a faster rate than its overall operating costs. So, a company that increases its income stream by $100,000 a month, with only an increase in new costs of $10,000, not only is growing it is scaling its business too.

You will need to reinvest profits and trim costs constantly. If you wish to scale your business you will really need to make sure income is never wasted and only spent in the areas that will help your business hit its milestones and get to the next level.

Always be looking to grow your business, but at the same time how to scale.

For example, every time we look to add a new section to our websites, we look at how much that section will cost to create and maintain and if this section will result in more income well below the cost to hire someone to run this section.

Which famous companies scaled fast?

Here are two recent examples of companies that had to scale their business in a very short time period due to customer demand.

Slack social media platform

Slack is an app that helps companies set up team communications.

Slack founders were taken a little by surprise at how fast Slack needed to scale as a business. This was due to companies from all over the world embracing their platform.

Slack became so popular that in 2014 alone they needed to hire 60 new engineers. Their business went from a $1.2 billion valuation in 2014 to a $3.8 billion valuation in 2017. Fast forward to 2020 and their business is valued at near $20 billion.

Snapchat social media platform

This is probably the perfect example of a business that needed to scale in a very short time period.

In 2012 the app had 100,000 daily users. Fast forward 4 years to 2016 they had over 161 million daily users.

Steps you will need to take to scale your business

1 Ambition
As an entrepreneur, you need to have the drive to want your business to grow and scale-up. Many business owners are happy with slow and sustainable growth or are simply happy to have a good income coming in and do not want to become the next big company. If you want to scale your business fast you will need to put a lot of work in, set growth targets, and develop workable and ambitious plans in place to hit your goals.

2 Management
You will not be able to grow and scale your business on your own. You will need to build a team that has broad and complementary skills in the areas you need to help your company scale up efficiently. Many businesses also hire experienced directors, accountants, bankers, and project managers that can help advise you along your path. Each time you hire a new person you will need to keep in mind how you can scale your business to afford this new employee.

3 Create procedures
You will need to manage every aspect of your companies operations. From the day-to-day running to expanding into new areas, creating new products and services, and more.

You will need competent managers to implement standardised and repeatable processes. Some of these procedures can be supported by software systems.

4 Build Collaborations
Over time you will need to look at creating outside partnerships with people and organisations. This is why networking is so important. Not only to find potential new clients and customers but also to help you build a network of partners and suppliers.

5 Identify milestones
You need to plan what your companies most important milestones are and ensure you have the team and budget to successfully hit them.

Once a milestone is hit you will need to immediately start on your next milestone, so it pays to plan these important milestones ahead of time. With tech startups, you will often see a “road map” on their website outlining the milestones they aim to achieve and a guide to the timeframes they think this may take.
Hitting a milestone on time or even earlier than expected really increases investor confidence in your company and often makes it easier to look for new investor money to help you achieve your next milestone. Missing any milestones in the time allotted will of course have a negative effect on your brand.

Milestones are very important. They show you have a plan to scale up your business and always keep looking forward. Hitting a milestone demonstrates you and your team are organised, well-funded, have great project managers and this can really set you apart from your competitors. Don’t be surprised if investors and larger companies come knocking on your door once you hit a milestone.

Milestones cost money and you need to keep in mind the entire time how you can increase revenue to not only cover these new expenses but also scale them.

6 Transparency
Be transparent with your customers and clients. The more they trust you to run your business well the more confidence they will have in continuing to use your products and services and not start looking at your competitors. If your business makes a mistake, address this mistake immediately and give a clear explanation as to why this occurred and how it will not reoccur in the future.

If you want to scale up you need to ensure your core business structure is very well managed and maintained.

7 Identify your ideal client or customer
This does not happen overnight. Over time you will be able to identify which customers spend more, their demographic, their age range, their income range, etc.

Once you know this you can target your audience and start to scale up fast. Simply put, identify your ideal buyer, find out what their needs are, optimise how to market and sell to them, and then create services and products that meet your buyer’s needs.

A product costs money to create, you need to ensure that these new products bring in overtime more money than they cost to implement.

8 Budgeting and hiring employees
As with all businesses you will need to budget. Moreover, if you wish to scale fast you will need to be very efficient with your budget and spend it only in the areas that will help your business grow and become more profitable.

Many businesses waste money in the early stages by hiring the incorrect people for the job or your companies scaling needs. Some even hire employees in sectors of their business well before they are really needed and so reducing their budget in the areas that initially need more resources available.

Each employee has to be hired for a reason and they need to increase your business earnings more than your costs.

9 Increase efficiency
You will need a really efficient team with no dead weight. The more efficient and organised your team is, the more prepared they will be to help you expand and scale your business to the next level.

10 Go digital

Businesses can use a combination of social media and an online presence (website) to really help them attract new customers and clients. Both of these can also be achieved with relatively low overheads and result in a significant increase in your turnover.

Bricks and mortar businesses

If you have a traditional business you can not only make money from traditional foot traffic coming into your store but also look to create a dominant online marketplace to attract customers worldwide. This combination can be very effective in helping you grow and scale up.

Online businesses

Digital (online) businesses can grow and scale at an incredible rate as they have fewer overheads than traditional brick-and-mortar businesses.

Scaling a business

The most important stage a business will face in scaling is when it is no longer a startup, but has not yet become a large business. This is a critical stage that the owner will need to decide between growing organically at a steady rate or scaling up. It is also a great position to find yourself in as your business now has a core structure, solid foundation, and income.

Scaling up is also the stage where the owner needs to stop being directly involved in the little parts of their business. This is the time to look at the bigger picture. If you are still needed in the day-to-day running of your business, including the small parts, then you are probably not yet at the point where you should scale up.

It is advisable not to add a new product or service until your business and you as the owner are ready. The more efficient and profitable your foundation and core business is the more you are ready to scale up. All your employees should be running at full capacity and know exactly what they are doing. If your business is struggling with 1000 customers, how do you expect your business to cope with 10,000 new customers? It is tempting to jump the gun, but only you, your accountant, and your managers will know when the time is right.

When you are ready to leave the day-to-day operations of your business to your employees and start putting your attention more into strategy building and expanding, then your business is probably ready to scale up.

Find new investors, or have a fair amount of capital ready as this is not a cheap process. You will also need to spend a lot of energy and time at this stage and so whatever else you have going on in your life, you must be capable to focus a lot of time on your business.

We wish you the best of luck with your business journey and we also hope that you have enjoyed reading this article and found it helpful. We would be very grateful if you would kindly share this amongst your friends. Thank you.

We have a group of very experienced small business and start-up consultants who will work on setting up and improving your business. Please visit our start-up and small business services here.

What is social media marketing?

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What is social media marketing?

Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of online marketing. The goal is to have your content go viral across the main social media networks. This may include, videos, articles, tweets, and any content that you can create and your audience will like and share. This is organic social media marketing, you can however also utilise paid social media marketing.

You need to plan

Simply posting across your social media platforms might not be enough to entice viewers into paying customers and clients, although it is a start.

You need to plan and work out how best to create useful and unique content that people will find interesting and informative.

You need to think about what your goal is when posting. You need to create a focused campaign, otherwise, you could be throwing darts at a dartboard hoping to hit the bullseye.

Simple aspects of social media planning could be:

  • Who is your target audience?
  • Where will you find your target audience on social media?
  • What are you aiming to achieve?
  • What message do you want to get across to your audience?
  • How will you create content that will go viral?
  • How will your social media posts convert your audience into paying customers and clients?

Examples:

A B-2-B business usually performs better utilising Linkedin and Twitter. A visual business like a modelling agency does best focusing on utilising Pinterest and Instagram.

How social media marketing can help your business

  • Raise brand awareness and identity.
  • Increase web traffic to your website.
  • Increase the value of your business.
  • Networking.
  • Interact with your customers and leads.

Which social media platforms should you use?

You need to know that each social media platform can be used and utilised in a slightly different way. Therefore you will need to adjust your social media marketing plan to really take advantage of each unique aspect of a particular social media platform.

Here are the main Social Media Platforms other Businesses use

Twitter

Twitter is fantastic for keeping your audience up-to-date with what your business is currently working on and any new products or services you are bringing out.

You should follow your competitors and anyone interested in your business field. If someone you follow posts something you like you should like or retweet this. People will often return the favour.

You can tweet about anything. Try to keep your tweets relevant to your business and we do suggest keeping religion and politics out of your tweets. You can alienate half your audience with one tweet and damage your brand.

Ideas for Tweets – discounts and specials you are offering, news, new items you have for sale, articles you have written or enjoyed reading (re-tweet), and remember to post anything positive you read or see written about your business.

Facebook

Facebook is fantastic as you can create a business fan page. You should spend a little time creating a beautifully designed and layout page.

This is also an extremely cheap way of creating leads and followers that you can over time turn into paying clients and customers.

Youtube

If you are good at creating video content YouTube is your go-to platform. Not only this, but you also get paid (long term) from adverts YouTube places on each video you upload.

Videos can go viral and thus more people will subscribe to your channel. The more views you have the more chance you will make ad money and also convert viewers into paying customers.

You can create “how-to” videos, fun and interesting videos showcasing your products or demonstrating your expertise in a business field.

Pinterest and Instagram

These platforms are really useful for businesses to showcase photos of their products.
Simple examples:

  • A clothing company can showcase its latest range using photos.
  • A restaurant can take photos of their new food dishes.

Linkedin

Linkedin is probably the best platform to create a serious business profile on. It is also a business-focused networking site where you can show people you are an authority in your field and find businesses to partner with. Linkedin is also a great place to create an online CV.

Don’t forget to also join Business and networking groups and start chatting with others. You can even create your own business group.

You can offer mentoring, post jobs, and post business articles you have written.

Finally, you can get recommendations from clients and other business people which helps build trust in your brand.

Social media tips

1 Brainstorm and plan.

Research your audience and plan ahead of time what to post and why.

2 Relevant and informative content.

Post regularly, but not too much, and make sure each time there is a reason behind your post. Try to keep your posts relevant to your audience’s needs and post quality over quantity.

3 Enhance your brand’s standing.

The idea behind your posts is to build your brand name, so keep this in mind when you are posting and commenting on other people’s posts. If in doubt, stay professional. Avoid poor grammar, heckling, arguing too much, and de-valuing your brand.

4 Post what you are doing.

Do you have a new product or service? Keep your audience up-to-date with your latest news.

5 Re-tweet, like comment, and share other people’s work.

6 Monitor your competition.

Social media makes it extremely easy to keep an eye on your competition, what they are working on, where their audience is coming from, what posts they receive the most recognition or comment from.

We wish you good luck with your social media campaigns and hope that you enjoyed reading this article. We would be very grateful if you would kindly share this article with your friends, colleagues, and across your social media platforms. Thank you.

Our social media services

We have a dedicated, experienced team of social media marketing specialists available to help your business gain a solid social media presence and gain more visitors, views, comments, and ultimately more sales.

We will help you create and upload quality social media posts, we can monitor and maintain as many social media platforms as you have.

Do you need us to help you create a social media account and profile? We are happy to work with you on anything you need. Please visit our website social media service here.

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PropTech is going to be as big as FinTech.
FinTech (Financial Technology) describes the evolving intersection of financial services and technology.

PropTech (Property Technology) describes the evolving intersection of the property industry and technology.

Property technology is simply the next evolution of the property sector as a whole. Technology is being developed for the real estate and construction market.

The aim is to make the day-to-day workings of property management, ownership, and legals more efficient.
For example,

Estate agents will use smart contracts to simplify leasing contracts between their rental client and the owner of the property.

Property lawyers will use smart contracts and blockchain technology to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of the necessary paperwork between a buyer and a seller.

The most common use of PropTech is through the use of property apps on mobile phones.

Renters can make rent payments using an app.
Maintenance companies can send landlords updates or documents to sign using an app.

A small company in Yorkshire, England called ‘Construction Automation’ has built a house entirely using a robot. To read this interesting article click here

Recently, there has been much more development in remote property viewing, due to the 2020 worldwide pandemic.

Estate agents and realtors can now use remote systems to walk through an entire house, and the potential buyer can sit at home 2000 miles away viewing the property in its entirety as if they were there.

What is the future of PropTech?

At the moment remote viewing technology consists of special cameras and using professional viewing platforms like however, this is just the beginning.

In the near future, VR (the technology already works) remote property viewing for renters and buyers will actually virtually transport you into a house and allow you to feel as if you are actually there.

This trend will only increase, especially as the younger generation are very tech-savvy.

We are only at the beginning of how far technology will be used within the property industry.

Technology companies are already working on how to integrate A.I blockchain technology, and cloud-based solutions into every aspect of the commercial and residential property sector, including large developments.

We hope you found this article informative and we would be very grateful if you would kindly share this with your friends across your social media platforms. Thank you.

To read more of our articles, please visit our website  We offer a property service helping clients find residential and commercial properties, and also developments in London and across the United Kingdom. For our American readers, we have agents in Florida and Chicago.
Please visit our property service here

SmartPad – The World’s First 3-in-1 4K Smart Display

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This is a multi-functional smart display that will allow you t connect with with multiple devices at the same time, it can be connected up to 3 devices at the same time. You can play games and also watch videos through this from any device/site.

Social media marketing guide

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What is social media marketing?

Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of online marketing. The goal is to have your content go viral across the main social media networks. This may include, videos, articles, tweets, and any content that you can create and your audience will like and share. This is organic social media marketing, you can however also utilise paid social media marketing.

You need to plan

Simply posting across your social media platforms might not be enough to entice viewers into paying customers and clients, although it is a start.

You need to plan and work out how best to create useful and unique content that people will find interesting and informative.

You need to think about what your goal is when posting. You need to create a focused campaign, otherwise, you could be throwing darts at a dartboard hoping to hit the bullseye.

Simple aspects of social media planning could be:

  • Who is your target audience?
  • Where will you find your target audience on social media?
  • What are you aiming to achieve?
  • What message do you want to get across to your audience?
  • How will you create content that will go viral?
  • How will your social media posts convert your audience into paying customers and clients?

Examples:

A B-2-B business usually performs better utilising Linkedin and Twitter. A visual business like a modelling agency does best focusing on utilising Pinterest and Instagram.

How social media marketing can help your business

  • Raise brand awareness and identity.
  • Increase web traffic to your website.
  • Increase the value of your business.
  • Networking.
  • Interact with your customers and leads.

Which social media platforms should you use?

You need to know that each social media platform can be used and utilised in a slightly different way. Therefore you will need to adjust your social media marketing plan to really take advantage of each unique aspect of a particular social media platform.

Here are the main Social Media Platforms other Businesses use

Twitter

Twitter is fantastic for keeping your audience up-to-date with what your business is currently working on and any new products or services you are bringing out.

You should follow your competitors and anyone interested in your business field. If someone you follow posts something you like you should like or retweet this. People will often return the favour.

You can tweet about anything. Try to keep your tweets relevant to your business and we do suggest keeping religion and politics out of your tweets. You can alienate half your audience with one tweet and damage your brand.

Ideas for Tweets – discounts and specials you are offering, news, new items you have for sale, articles you have written or enjoyed reading (re-tweet), and remember to post anything positive you read or see written about your business.

Facebook

Facebook is fantastic as you can create a business fan page. You should spend a little time creating a beautifully designed and layout page.

This is also an extremely cheap way of creating leads and followers that you can over time turn into paying clients and customers.

Youtube

If you are good at creating video content YouTube is your go-to platform. Not only this, but you also get paid (long term) from adverts YouTube places on each video you upload.

Videos can go viral and thus more people will subscribe to your channel. The more views you have the more chance you will make ad money and also convert viewers into paying customers.

You can create “how-to” videos, fun and interesting videos showcasing your products or demonstrating your expertise in a business field.

Pinterest and Instagram

These platforms are really useful for businesses to showcase photos of their products.
Simple examples:

  • A clothing company can showcase its latest range using photos.
  • A restaurant can take photos of their new food dishes.

Linkedin

Linkedin is probably the best platform to create a serious business profile on. It is also a business-focused networking site where you can show people you are an authority in your field and find businesses to partner with. Linkedin is also a great place to create an online CV.

Don’t forget to also join Business and networking groups and start chatting with others. You can even create your own business group.

You can offer mentoring, post jobs, and post business articles you have written.

Finally, you can get recommendations from clients and other business people which helps build trust in your brand.

Social media tips

1 Brainstorm and plan.

Research your audience and plan ahead of time what to post and why.

2 Relevant and informative content.

Post regularly, but not too much, and make sure each time there is a reason behind your post. Try to keep your posts relevant to your audience’s needs and post quality over quantity.

3 Enhance your brand’s standing.

The idea behind your posts is to build your brand name, so keep this in mind when you are posting and commenting on other people’s posts. If in doubt, stay professional. Avoid poor grammar, heckling, arguing too much, and de-valuing your brand.

4 Post what you are doing.

Do you have a new product or service? Keep your audience up-to-date with your latest news.

5 Re-tweet, like comment, and share other people’s work.

6 Monitor your competition.

Social media makes it extremely easy to keep an eye on your competition, what they are working on, where their audience is coming from, what posts they receive the most recognition or comment from.

We wish you good luck with your social media campaigns and hope that you enjoyed reading this article. We would be very grateful if you would kindly share this article with your friends, colleagues, and across your social media platforms. Thank you.

Our social media services

We have a dedicated, experienced team of social media marketing specialists available to help your business gain a solid social media presence and gain more visitors, views, comments, and ultimately more sales.

We will help you create and upload quality social media posts, we can monitor and maintain as many social media platforms as you have.

Do you need us to help you create a social media account and profile? We are happy to work with you on anything you need. Please visit our website social media service here.

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