Self-Communication Is The Foundation of Success
There is only one person with whom we communicate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, every year of our life. Ourselves.
Mastering communication with ourselves determines our quality of life as it determines our ability to experience life as we would like.
Few people truly understand that how we …
The ONE Interview Question You Must Consider
Everyone interviews. Even the boss had to go through an interview process.
There is ONE Interview Question that you should be ready to address.
Some interviewers are very good at what they do. Some are not quite so good. The good interviewers will let you do the majority of the talking. They should already know …
How a Twitter Chat Can Help Your Personal Brand
Twitter chats are a great way to engage with your audience and customers and help you create brand awareness. Based on particular topics, Twitter chats enable you to reach a wider audience and discuss particular issues that are of relevance to the audience.
As a creator and moderator of a popular Twitter chat, I have …
Selling in the Summer
“Business is always slower in the summer,” is the common phrase among sales professionals and business owners from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Unless you are in the tourism business, chances are your summer months are a little slower in the way of sales. This can also be a drastic rationalization technique by professionals when …
Does College Make Financial Sense?
The first edition of my career book, Fast Track Your Job Search (and Career!) , contained a chapter that offered ideas for evaluating the advisability of getting an M.B.A.. (I deleted it in later editions because I wanted to reduce my hate mail.) Within the chapter I provided estimated financial paybacks of the top rated …
11 Ways to Overcome Service-Based Branding Challenges
I have a service-based business. What is one branding challenge I will face that is unique to service businesses? How do I overcome it?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a …
Establishing An Improved Clientele
Difficult and rude clients have the ability to make you wish you never began your business. But deep down you know that’s not true; instead, you recognize a need to alter your course of action. The following strategies are written to assist you with putting wind in your sales!
1. Increase energy to make the …
Interview Questions Reveal Employer’s Concerns
You can address an employer’s concerns via your interview answers only if you understand where the concerns are coming from and what the employer wants to explore. Interview questions can be grouped by the interviewer’s needs. So, what are such needs? Similar to a personal investment, employers need to do their due diligence in order …
How to Pitch Yourself to Employers
While most job seekers know how to generally market themselves to employers, they don’t always know how to effectively pitch themselves to employers.
When you submit your cover letter and resume, an employer spends about six seconds scanning it to see if you’re even qualified for the position. In these six seconds, you need to …
How to Ace Your Job Interview
This week, I will try to answer the most common questions asked by candidates about the interview process.
1. How long is a typical interview?
A typical interview usually lasts about half an hour. You usually interview with one person for thirty minutes and then maybe interview with another person back-to-back for another thirty minutes. …