"Assuming just one thousand out of them decided to go on social media to create useful content on what they do and they get the opportunity to employ twenty people each, that will be two hundred thousand employees, the unemployment will be solved so it can bring a whole economic boom."
That's the message from Joshua Amegashie-Viglo, founder of Groove Hub, a music production and promotion firm in Ghana, per Business News.
Amegashie-Viglo, who's also an engineer, says social media is "a tool" that anyone can use to boost his or her business.
"Whatever you're doing, you can put it on social media and enhance your output, your reach or your publicity," he says.
"So you can create content on finance if it becomes very popular, you can create a company and it can become a bank."
Amegashie-Viglo says he's already employed three people after posting content on YouTube that went viral.
"I created content on music; it went viral and it has become a music studio where we're doing music production and promotion," he says.
"Assuming there are fifty thousand unemployed youth in Ghana or Ho.
Assuming just one thousand out of them decided to go
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MBA and Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server, Symon Garfield, writes, “Social business has no value without purpose. If you know what you are trying to do (strategy) then that will give you the means to measure success (business case or value proposition), and that in turn will help you assess investments in social against other priorities. The starting point is strategy.”