I have taken for granted the ability to read and write, learn how to organize my time, and behave professionally in a group setting. Young adults these days find it fashionable to hate the education system. Yet the irony of their incoherent tirades are rife with grammatical mistakes, like the 99/1% protesters marching in the […]
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Say thank you often and honestly. When you are in a state of gratitude, you have massive personal power. Armed with that power, you get into a “mission mindset” to help others. And then they do something magical for you- they reciprocate. You get 5 to 10 times back what you put in. They make
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For Content Factory to make the impact we want on the education system and the lives of young adults, we have to be able to write checks to fund our initiatives. We are a FOR PURPOSE business, not a non-profit– because we integrate our mission directly into our company operations. A for-profit business donates from
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Decide on a topic you absolutely, authoritatively want to DOMINATE. Enough so that you can write 100 blog posts on that topic and interview 18 people who credibly have expertise in that particular niche. Blogs that get traffic— not random corporate or personal blogs– are the realm of EXPERTS who go so deep in
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[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Google his name and you’ll see that Mr. Cecere, the CEO of US Bank, is known for his massive compensation ($14 million in 2018) and not his heart. Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times reporter, covered how US Bank whitewashed a story of an employee they fired for
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This is what you say when your friends hit you up for free consulting. After all, you’re a social media marketing pro, and social media is free– so your help is free, too, right? You and I spend all day long just hanging out on Twitter and Facebook doing teenager-type stuff– not anything important. So
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You know that anything based upon mere MOTIVATION will fail. You might start out strong, but motivation can’t last forever, no matter how much Gary and Tony you consume– or how hard you try. What’s different this time is that you’ve learned from the past– and now you’re about SYSTEMS. SYSTEMS of people— your team,
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“No, you cannot pick my brain for free,” is what I told him. You wouldn’t ask a restaurant owner to give you free meals or a doctor to give you free surgery. But somehow in marketing, especially digital, charging for your expertise is rude. Sure, give them a minute (make sure it’s actually just a
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Know how to instantly tell an expert from an amateur? The expert spends 90% of their time practicing the fundamentals and only 10% of their time doing “pro” stuff. The amateur spends 90% of their time trying to do the “pro” stuff while ignoring the fundamentals. The amateur marketer chases tricks and hacks. The amateur
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My boss constantly chases me down, wondering where I am or what I’m doing. But that’s because I’m not motivated– and once I get a raise, I then might consider starting to work again. I complain that I don’t know what’s going on in the company, but I’m also not around to listen and don’t
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