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When I started at American Airlines, I was on a salary of $18.50/hour. And because I worked 80 hours per week, I was making only $9/hour, which is far less than the $150,000 I would have made going to Goldman Sachs– not including the bonus. But I did it for the opportunities that my mentor […]

Each person in your life is either removing headaches for you or creating headaches. They are creating more time for you or costing you time. Adding energy or sapping your energy. Not saying only associate with the former and ignore the latter, since you intentionally want to invest in your friends and family. Categorize your

Make sure to inspect the venue the night before. Look at where the confidence monitor is, so you can see the countdown timer and your slides. Know where the steps are, so you can walk up without confusion. Check your AV, since screen resolutions might not be what you expect. Walk the boundaries of the

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If you want to dominate Google search on your name, your location, and other long-tail searches, you MUST check out this tip on how to manipulate wiki data for the answer box and knowledge graph. Take the first position and block out ads, too. Watch this.

This is how you shoot one-minute videos for professional sellers- real estate agents, mortgage brokers, insurance salesmen, attorneys, etc… We like to shoot outdoors, as opposed to the “prison lineup” of a white wall directly behind you with dim incandescent lighting. Shoot continuously with the subject being interviewed by a colleague, not looking at the

You’re either swimming faster than the current or not. Achieving goals is about swimming upstream– if you’re not swimming, you’re floating comfortably down the river. Until you go over the waterfall.

68,774 people saw this post and 28,590 engaged. It’s not the 50% engagement rate that struck me– it’s that I was able to reach 68,774 people with a couple of clicks. Imagine a Super Bowl-sized stadium full of 67,774 people you reached for $197.90. That’s 68,774 sets of eyeballs, each one on their phone, looking

They wrote copy that looks like it came from a marketing department, not a human. All this talk you hear about being genuine, human, personal, and conversational is just another way to say this… Do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what looks like an ad. That means:– Use vertical video instead of landscape.– Have “cell phone”

Use your iPhone to gather the killer b-roll that just isn’t possible from the back of the room or from a fixed location. With a b-roll, you’re looking to get a few snippets you can use in a speaker reel, promo video, or other pieces. You don’t need the audio from it or the entire