The Rise of the Influencer It’s no secret that with the rise of the “social media influencer” many more lucrative and long term career opportunities have flourished for a wide variety of industries throughout the internet. Whether we are actively aware of it or not, many of social media’s top accounts subliminally (and at times blatantly) sell us products, brands and services on a near constant basis. At times this is welcomed. At other times it becomes another piece of …