How to Pitch Your Way into a Job
How can you land a great job without jumping through the normal hoops, sending out loads of resumes and cover letters?
Gabriel Mitchell
How to Read More
If you want to read more, you may stumble upon specific tips such as getting a Kindle or listening to audio books. These are shown to help, but they don’t tackle the essential issue. There’s a philosophical problem going on. You have to adopt a certain mindset.
How The Lean Startup Method Can Save You Time and Money
If I could summarize the main lesson of Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup in one sentence, it would be something like this: When launching a product, start small, get it to market as quickly as possible, and then use this market feedback to adjust and move forward. Ries...
Sales Mastermind Lessons for Non-Sales People
I’m not a professional salesperson, but I recently learned some sales lessons that can be helpful even for non-sales people. I needed help on a pitch email for a prospective freelance client, so I reached out to my friend Nick Rundlett who hosts a “sales mastermind...
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