Seven Ways to Become Well-Connected
“The best way to be highly influential is to be human to everyone you meet.”
Category: Career Growth
How to Be Successful and Create Something Important
“You don’t want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have been doing it for twenty — your rate ...
Why You Need a Point of View
“A POV is not a sales pitch. Not directly. The utility of that point of view is not to capture dollars by selling a thing. The utility of that POV is to capture...
Seven Ways to Make Your Meetings Better
“Score every meeting. Score it out of ten at the end of the meeting. Not just you, all participants. Do it for client meetings too. Nothing below a score of eig...
Three Growth Marketing Principles for a Thriving Business and Engaged Audience
“There is tremendous power in intentionally projecting a somewhat delusional plan or proposal.”
Six Email Prompts You Can Use to Start Saying No
“The key here is not to make excuses, but to just say no. Pay attention to what makes you squirm the most, or which invitations feel the hardest to say no to.”
25 Useful Things You Don’t Realize Google Docs Can Do
“While Google Docs may seem simple on the surface, it’s practically overflowing with out-of-sight options that can help you get more done with less effort.”
How to Make Money for Your Art Without Selling Your Soul
“If you make art without learning how to market it, you’ll probably burn out, get resentful, and blame everyone else for your failure because they don’t ‘get it...
30 Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs
“Speaking to customers about pricing can be stressful. But I promise you that not talking to them and attempting to interpret their silence is more excruciating...
Your Big Break Is Never Coming (And That Can Be a Good Thing)
“The Big Break is a myth. Something we tell themselves out of laziness and fear of the work ahead. If Big Breaks do happen, we’d be better off not counting on t...