Accepting the “realities” of life? Screw that. If you want something, go after it.By definition if th
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Accepting the “realities” of life? Screw that. If you want something, go after it. By definition if there’s leadership, it means there are followers, and you’re only as good as the followers. I believe the quality of the followers is in direct correlation to the respect you hold them in. It’s not how much they respect you that is most important. It’s actually how much you respect them. It’s everything.
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Why Being Great Is So Much Harder Than People Realize
It shows the world records in the men’s 100-meter sprint between 1896 and 2012. Notice anything interesting?
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How the Fab.com CEO Blew Through $336m in 3 Years
This week’s story on failure is on Fab.com, which went from a $1B valuation to $30m in 3 years. Here’s what happened, as explained by CEO Jason Goldberg.
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SEO in 2018: The Definitive Guide
This is not another lame predictions guide.
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Giphy.com’s Drop on Google - Things You Should Never Do
Two Weeks ago, Barry Schwartz wrote the following blog post: “Giphy CEO: We Own Happy Birthday On Google. Next Day They Get Hit”. And indeed, Giphy.com has lost 91% of their Visibility in the UK, 84% in the USA, 87% in France, 88% in Italy, 83% in Germany and 85% in Spain.
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The ultimate guide to learning anything faster
As information becomes more readily accesible online, the number of things we want to learn is only continuing to increase. And the only variable we can control is the amount of time we spend learning them.
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How An “Experience” Journal Fuels My Daily Writing Habit
REALLY good tips for writers in here!
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How to Connect with Yourself in a World Designed to Distract You
This three-step process has greatly helped me reconnect with myself, access my intuition, and make better decisions in my everyday life.
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Forget The 10,000-Hour Rule; Edison, Bezos, & Zuckerberg Follow The 10,000-Experiment Rule
In 1878, when the 36-year-old inventor decided to focus on building a light bulb, 23 others had already invented early versions called arc lamps, some of which were being used commercially …
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How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them
Adam Bryant has interviewed 525 chief executives through his years writing the Corner Office column. Here’s what he has learned.
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How to Give Feedback People Can Actually Use
It should meet eight criteria.
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Working at Google seemed like a dream job. The reality has been a tedious, pointless nightmare.
A day in the life of a human resources “talent channels specialist.”
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How I Monetize One Page Love
Breaking down current, failed and future income channels to help you find new areas to monetize your side project.
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The Salary Chronicles: One Simple Question Helped Me Earn $10K More
It can be intimidating to negotiate when you have been laid off and you only have one job offer. This woman didn’t let that stop her and she negotiated for $10k more at a job where she could work from home.
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The Unbundling of the Career
“I didn’t go to school.” My friend (and RadReader) was briefly taken aback. He was interviewing for a senior role as Creative Director at a Product Development shop and this answer didn’t fit into…
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Ecommerce Business Ideas: Finding Online Store Opportunities [2017]
Having trouble finding an ecommerce business idea? 27 experts help to identify online store opportunities and make your business a reality.
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Sumo Growth Study: How MailChimp Makes $400M Revenue
MailChimp is probably doing better than you ever realized. Their website traffic alone clocks in at a global rank of #979 out of the world’s more than one billion websites.
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The Secret Behind Marie Forleo’s Instagram Stardom, Plus 7 Marketing Lessons You Can Learn from Her
How Marie Forleo keeps her 275,000 followers engaged.
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How Personalization Drives Retention and Monetization for Stitch Fix
This post looks at how Stitch Fix has used personalization to drive
retention and monetization, paving the path to its upcoming IPO.
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Longer content isn’t wearing audiences out — and they may even be hungry for more, two studies find
Audiences are engaging more with longer videos, and you shouldn’t think of all of the “bounces” that show up in your Google Analytics as bad visits. That’s according to two new studies on video and social traffic out today.
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DuckDuckGo: When privacy becomes a trigger for growth
As part of the team at WordLift and on my blog, we undertake several experiments each week to understand how search engines are evolving.
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Finally, A Social Media Marketing Strategy That Puts You Right In The Middle Of Your Target Market
Most conversation about social media strategy sucks. Write compelling headlines, use interesting photos, follow “influencers” Pfffft…. what a crock of sh…
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Why Personalization is Dead (And What to Do Instead)
Personalization is popular but it can be tricky. And, a lot of times, not all it’s cracked up to be. Learn how to go beyond personalization in cold emails.
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22 lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer
In his memoir, On Writing, King shares valuable insights into how to be a better writer. And he doesn’t sugarcoat it.
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Toxic VC and the marginal-dollar problem
Venture capital should come with a warning label. In our experience, VC kills more startups than slow customer adoption, technical debt and co-founder..
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Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement
As a startup marketer, spending my lunch break arguing with developers is not my favorite part of the job. “That’s bullshit,” our CTO replies. “MailChimp’s product isn’t any better than the rest; it…
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The Greatest Sales Pitch I’ve Seen All Year
A few weeks ago, I met a CMO named Yvette in the office kitchen at OpenView Venture Partners.
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Hundreds of Apps Can Listen for Marketing ‘Beacons’ You Can’t Hear
So-called ultrasonic beacons are becoming even more popular with marketers. Here’s how to shut them out.
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When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest
An acquaintance of mine, let’s call him Mike, is looking for work after getting laid off from a contract role at Microsoft, which has happened to a lot of people I know. Like me, Mike has 11 years in industry.
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The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
It looks like nothing changed since 2014, but GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic.
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Facebook employees just opened a privately shared Google Sheet I sent to my brother.
So I made a crypto portfolio spreadsheet and decided to share it with my brother, whom I’ve been Facebook friends with for 10+ years and we share…
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Spencer Rascoff: How a down round killed employee equity in Hotwire
Spencer Rascoff, a founder of Hotwire, was in his 20s when he sold the company to Expedia for $700 million. But his employees didn’t walk away with much money.
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If You Rest, You Rust. So Always Keep Moving.
Picture this. You have a job that pays okay. But you don’t really like it. Well, let me put it this way: You like the money, but you wouldn’t do that job if there was no money involved.
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Life Is Math — Not Magic
Some say life is like chess, running a marathon, or playing a video game. I like those simplified looks on life because it’s already complicated enough.
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Time flies faster as you get older, but you can slow it down
The secret to slowing down time is to shake up a boring routine and start achieving different goals.
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