Don’t Forget to Practice Intimate Marketing
“Ideas and people take time to get to know each other. We’ve forgotten that to move someone to action they need to see a message repeatedly. You have to earn tr...
Author: EBenedict
How to Think like the Smartest People in the World
“The difference between great thinkers and ordinary thinkers is that, for ordinary thinkers, the process of using models is unconscious and reactive. For great ...
Why People Are Awkward
“Studies say the right amount of eye contact during conversations is about 3.3 seconds. Awkward people don’t instinctively do that.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Every single year we’re a different person.” — Steven Spielberg
10 Ideas to Help You Accomplish a Goal Next Year
In the course of publishing 50 editions of my For The Interested newsletter this year, I’ve consumed thousands of ideas about how to get better at doing things....
What Not to Do on Social Media
“Make your social media posts about how you can help and add value rather than putting your name on everything and trying to sound important.”
How to Create a Proactive Dashboard for Your Business
“A proactive dashboard is all the things you can control.”
Things Healthy Couples Don’t Fight About
“Healthy people also don’t look to their partner to make them feel happy. Or beautiful. Or secure. Or confident. These emotions are first ours to manage.”
How to Go from Zero to 14k Followers on Medium
“I was celebrating 30 views while others were kicking rocks because of it. Because I knew how hard it was to get 30 eyeballs. Medium makes it easy, and now ever...
Millennials Face the Scariest Financial Future Since the Great Depression
“Every stereotype of our generation applies only to the tiniest, richest, whitest sliver of young people. And the circumstances we live in are more dire than mo...