How Small Business Owners Can Attract the Best Talent
How do you recruit the best talent? You offer something the big players can’t or won’t offer. According to TIME, Syracuse will offer the first undergraduate degree in sports analytics starting in the fall of 2017. Yep, you read that correctly. Soon, you’ll be able to study Moneyball in college (Think: Seth from Superbad meets…
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Getting True Value Out of Life
We were walking down a small cobblestone street in Aix en Provence. It was a perfect June day – sunny and still warm in the late afternoon. The old, unpainted buildings had an amber glow. Some of these buildings, we had learned from poking our heads inside, contained modest-sized apartments.…
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This Guy Bought a $47,500 Job for $10.48
What if I told you there was a sure-fire way to get your resume read by ANY employer… …A way to get your foot, not only in the door but have you marching past the gatekeepers and straight into the CEO’s office… Would you be interested? Meet, Johnson Kee, the guy who…
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How Savvy People Shop Online
“Just Google it.” I have a love/hate relationship with these three magic words. I hate it when I catch myself saying, “Just Google it” to someone because I know research shows the more we rely on search engines, the less confident we become in our own ability to solve problems. But, I love…
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10 big ideas
I wish I had thought of this myself. Oh well, it’s still something I do every day. It reminds me to stay focused. It shows me where to take action. And it’s brought many of my dreams to life, both personally and professionally. It’s a great tip from James Altucher,…
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What You Really Get Paid For
As anyone who’s ever started a business can confirm, there are plenty of unknowns when it comes to being an entrepreneur. “Who’s my target customer?” “Should I have employees?” “What kind of website do we need?” “How much should I charge?” And many, many other questions besides. But before you…
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How to Get People Addicted to Your Products and Services
Every year on the first Saturday in May 155,000 people come together to watch and bet money on a group of three-year-old Thoroughbred horses. This tradition has carried on for the past 142 years. If you watched the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, you witnessed the perfect example of how to properly…
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How NOT to Approach a Mentor
Last month I received emails from 3 young men asking The Godfather for favors. They teach us great lessons on the WRONG way and the RIGHT ways to approach a mentor. Enjoy the lessons! First, this is the wrong way to approach a mentor. Hint: Don’t offer ‘stolen’ goods to…
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You Can’t Go Broke Spending Money
“You can never go broke spending money.” Whaaat? James Altucher said this in an interview with Ramit Sethi a few months ago. It’s a pretty controversial statement. If you really think about it, it’s not so crazy. Some context — In the interview, James and Ramit talk about the different…
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Sell me this pen
Walk into the interview room and sit down. The interviewer will ask you, “Try to sell me this pen.” Give a lackluster response, then apologize for not being able to convince him. Ask for a lower-level job and tell him you will work your way up and learn the ropes,…
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Why Givers Rule the World & Have the Fast Track to Success
“You cannot out-give the Universe,” my mentor Yanik Silver said to me over and over again in 2008 after I joined his Mastermind Group. What a silly notion, I thought. Or was it? Back then I didn’t understand what he meant. I was young, naïve, and inexperienced. With a little…
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If All Else Fails, Threaten to Commit Suicide
Mad Men is one of my all time favorite TV shows. I gave it five stars on Netflix (I haven’t given any other show as high a rating). The man you’re about to meet today hated Mad Men — maybe because he is one. He had this to say about the show:…
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