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October 26 · Issue #56 · View online |
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“No matter what hand life deals us, we are ultimately left with the dilemma of how we choose to respond.”
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Goal journey mapping – The superior strategy to achieve your goals
Goal journey mapping is your outline strategy how you will achieve your goals. It’s a fighting plan that you constantly adjust, update and improve.
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I don't wanna grow up to be a growth hacker
Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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If You Can’t Find a Spouse Who Supports Your Career, Stay Single
This experience underlines the conclusion I’ve drawn from years of research and experience: Professionally ambitious women really only have two options when it comes to their personal partners…
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Scoring stories to make better recommendation engines for news
For news media, recommendation engines are a horror show. The NQS project I’m working on at Stanford forced me to look at the way publishers try to keep readers on their property — and how the vast…
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Tangential Content Earns More Links and Social Shares in Boring Industries [New Research]
Research has shown that tangential content can earn 30% more linked mentions and 77% more shares on average than brand-focused campaigns.
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An open letter to Wikipedia—you can do better
Wikipedia just sent me an email asking me to donate again.
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How to Get More Value Out of the Content You Consume
reviewing how you spend your time and energy
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How to Start a Bullet Journal
Learn how to start your own bullet journal, an organizational tool that’s easy (and even fun) to use.
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How to Remember What You Read
The benefits of reading are negated if you don’t remember what you read. This article discusses a tested system to increase retention.
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You won’t feel motivated every single day. Focus on this instead
“Motivation is your ability to head towards the same goal over a long period of time.”
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How to beat burnout at work: Tips from a career coach
If you want to understand just how bad burnout can get, consider the story of Melissa Sinclair, an employee at Time Out New York.
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How to Quantify Your Resume Bullets (Super good!)
No matter what you do for a living, you can always quantify your resume bullet points to help it stand out to hiring managers.
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I Used Design Thinking To Reinvent My Career—Here’s Why It Worked
These five steps will help you carve out a new career path (and save lots of time, money, and frustration in the process).
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Executive Mentors Wanted. Only Millennials Need Apply.
As businesses chase evanescent market trends, young workers are being pulled into programs to give advice to the top ranks of their companies.
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Female Freelancers Are Paid Way Less Than Men For The Same Creative Jobs
Women in the “creative economy” are making 32% less than their male counterparts.
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1 Simple Exercise You Can Do Right Now to Become a Stronger Job Candidate
Doing this exercise can help you understand what you really want in your next job so you can go find it.
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What Millennials Value Most in Their Lives, Careers and Personal Tech
I thought this was interesting. It’s an infographic.
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Demanding a Bachelor’s Degree for a Middle-Skill Job Is Just Plain Dumb
“Most employers incur substantial, often hidden, costs by inflating degree requirements, while enjoying few of the benefits they were seeking.”
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How Salesforce Built a $10 Billion Empire from a CRM
Learn the five product habits that you need to find the critical problems that customers have and solve them better than anyone else.
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Sumo Growth Study: How MailChimp Makes $400M Revenue
Obsessed with these growth studies!
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This Brand Strategy Can Make Your Startup Look Bigger Than It Is
As a founding partner of Rock Health and seasoned consultant, Leslie Ziegler has helped brand dozens of startups. Here’s what the success stories had in common.
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3x Internal Link Building Strategies To Increase Search Traffic
Learn how to take advantage of internal link building to increase search traffic to your site step by step with my personal internal linking strategy.
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The Reason Why All Those Marketing Tactics Keep Failing
Here’s how to do the hard work, up-front, to make sure your next campaign goes off without a hitch.
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TaskRabbit’s pioneering marketplace model & missed growth opportunities
Last Thursday, furniture giant IKEA announced that it would be acquiring
the pioneering on-demand labor marketplace TaskRabbit.
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How we Bootstrapped our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
It’s been seven months since we launched our SaaS startup and we’re ramen profitable. Read about how we got here and what we’ve learned.
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Improving conversion rates by 75% just fixing minor UX problems
How simple and clear it sounded, and what a great challenge the task itself actually was. Not only we had limitations with the development platform, our role was to give some recommendations to the…
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Inside AdWords: Get visitors to your landing page faster with parallel tracking
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Two-Person Instagram Live Video: What Marketers Need to Know
Discover how to bring a guest into your live video on Instagram, and how to use this feature to bolster your brand.
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Warren Buffett reveals Macy's, Sears, and JCPenney doom
“If management makes bad decisions in order to hit short-term earnings targets, and consequently gets behind the eight-ball in terms of costs, customer satisfaction or brand strength, no amount of subsequent brilliance will overcome the damage has been inflicted,” Buffett writes.
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Confessions Of An Impostor
Impostor syndrome is real. Learn how to spot the symptoms and deal with it in order to avoid burnout and fatigue.
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This 5 Minute Daily Habit Will Get People To Treat You How You Want To Be Treated
“How do I grow this thing and manage a huge ship if I’m already freaking out about a meeting with 6 people who work for me?” You have to believe and feel like you’re already in possession of what you…
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Technology is destroying the most important asset in your life
“Money isn’t the most important thing in the world. Your time is.” Parents, teachers, and mentors all around the world have spoken these words to us, in one form of another, throughout our lives. It makes sense, too. Most of us come to realize at some point that money is a means, not an end….
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Why you should really start doing more things alone
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