Professional Topics For Discussion - Marketing & Business

Hi everyone;

While teaching on iTalki for over a year, I have received numerous requests from students to discuss professional topics. As I am sure that many of you are business, IT professionals you may find these discussions useful. ( Hopefully)

I wanted to talk about Social Networks in today's discussion, as outside of my iTalki life I am marketing and development consultant and this topic does not require much effort so forgive me if it's not something that you are interested in. 

With the growth of social networks, we have seen various trends in usage and how those social networks are affecting today's' businesses. One of the newest trends that I have noticed was particular to B2B marketing trends, and that had to do with LinkedIn and websites similar to it. Various sites and platforms are popping up here and there like angel.co for startups and Wantedly.com in Japan. 

Reliance on traditional social networks like Facebook is still in full force, however, is more central to consumer based marketing. When looking at international marketing trends, let's say Chinese WeChat (Weixin) platform, and how it uses mass linking capabilities, the division in how marketing works in other countries becomes more evident. "

I would love to hear what some of you think about this?

Would you rather choose a teacher that speaks your language or a teacher that doesn't? Would you prefer to study with a teacher that can communicate in your mother tongue as well as the language that you are learning or would you rather learn with a teaching that doesn't speak your language, thus encouraging you to communicate in the language that you're learning? 

Who else had a productive Christmas Day? Although it may sound cliche, I ended up working today. I am sure that many of the iTalki community members had to either work today or are simply not celebrating Christmas on December 25th thus haven't had a day off. What was your productive Christmas like?

Anyone travelling anytime soon? As the travel season is fast approaching it is important to brush up on your English. A few days ago I had this brilliant idea to create a 10-hour lesson for a conversational English boot camp. This boot camp involves high-intensity English conversation that would be focused on commonly discussed everyday topics. If you are thinking; " I can't speak well, or I barely understand what's going on, then this boot camp is for you!" Comment below if interested, if enough people are interested in this I will try to make it available.