Staying up to date in an industry that’s constantly shifting isn’t easy, but worth the challenge. As being on the cutting edge of trends, often correlates to being ahead of competitors.
Here are three easy to implement tasks, regardless to your level of experience in the industry. No matter what you have achieved in your space, it is fundamental to never be satisfied with your existing knowledge and to be comfortable with change and new ideas.
- RSS Feed
There is enormous potential for RSS Feeds too overtake dogs as a man or woman’s best friend. Maybe that was an overly ambitious assessment, nevertheless they are an admirable tool, and effective in keeping all professionals up to speed in their respective industry.
An RSS Feed aggregates all content an individual is interested in reading and stores it in your feed. Therefore you no longer need to go out chasing information; you can catch content you require and compact it all in one icon found in your web browser. The RSS Feed will collect all content from selected industries, websites, blogs, journals and newsletters that an individual has subscribed too.
- Google Alerts
Google constantly provides innovative goodies that we all love and want. Google Alerts is a system that allows the user to choose specific key words and be alerted in various ways, if anything relevant hits the Google Networks.
The ability to track clients and competitors movements freely is now more possible than ever; as Google notifies you whenever a rumble has occurred that involves them. This means becoming knowledgeable of a customers achievement is possible, as well as an important move made by a competitor. The need to be agile is always increasing and Google Alerts is a big step in the right direction.
It gets better – Google Alerts integrates with your RSS Feed. Meaning the industry information you desire and client and competitor news can be stored in one place.
- Meet up’s
Getting involved, participating and attending industry events is almost historic in terms of advice to staying on the ball. Meet Up Group’s take what we already know and dive deeper, exploring fragments of industries in-depth. They exist for basically every industry and are then segmented into specific groups, targeting a close-knit community of people. The groups operate regularly, locally and provide fresh content that is relevant and insightful.
If you are looking to immerse yourself in an industry offline, Meet Up groups are our number one recommendation.
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