2022 Social Media Prediction: The Year of the Creator

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Twitter launched Communities, everyone launched a creator fund, and TikTok became the #1 website in 2021. All of these events and more have built a foundation for the creator economy to take off and shape the future of social media.

According to SignalFire, there are over 50 million content creators driving the cr… Read More

How to Leverage AI for Better and Faster Language Translation

Facebook’s translation feature produced some truly comical results when it was still in its infancy stages. However, over the last few years, it’s improved. This reformation can be credited to a combination of user suggestions and its clever use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In 2020, they introduced a new open-source polyglot AI model.

It could translate between 100 languages without relying on English as a base language. It went as far as achieving first place at an annual multilingual speech translation competition. Social media marketing for foreign languages is crucial. But how can you leverage artificial intelligence and machine translation models like Facebook’s M2M-100 to produce faster language translations for your marketing and business goals? This question is what the following guide endeavors to answer.

What is machine translation?

When we talk about translation AIs, you must understand what options you have at your disposal. The field most concerned with using computers and software to translate one language to another is known as machine translation. It’s important to note that it has not always involved artificial intelligence. Research on t… Read More

How Underserved Entrepreneurs Can Fight Against the Odds to Succeed

Starting a business is terrifying.

There are numerous hurdles you’ll face in your first year, from suppliers letting you down, to unhappy clients, losing staff, and much more.

It’s no surprise that 20% of small businesses fail in their first year according to the ​​Bureau of Labor Statistics. (The numbers only get worse in years two, three, and beyond)

Even after running my own business for over a decade, the bumps and bruises keep coming. Let me tell you, they still hurt.

Some days I feel like giving up…

Of course, I’m lucky enough to have made it over the hump. The lessons I learned from near failure in years one, two, and three are the very things that drive me to continue on today.

Unfortunately, as the statistics confirm, most people don’t make it that far. And there are segments of our population that face additional roadblocks to success. Especially compared with me, a white male entrepreneur, who like it or not… has a better pathway to opportunities that keep my business running, such as finance.

The global pandemic has only accelerated this gap, with African American-owned businesses closing their… Read More