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In Action: The Successful Social Media Campaign
If you’re up for a good read, take a look at Mashable’s HOW TO: Grow a Startup 300% in 3 Days? SocialMedian Tells All. The title is bloated, but the article is important for at a few good reasons: People are the heart of any worthwhile business model (See also: Happiness as a business model) Listen to user feedback and actively do something about the feedback you’re getting Change should not be implemented lightly. Or slowly Forget traffic. You’re nothing without engagement Always build a good user interface. Always. Here’s …
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How To Send in Your Resume
Instead of the 2nd part of the Social Media Success Checklist post, I’d like to show you about my favorite resume experience so far. Although we get a lot them, they mostly follow a tediously boring and predictable, template-like pattern. Sometimes people will get creative and add creative touches but for the most part they all follow a predictable, template-like pattern. All of that changed for us last week when we got this from E—-: Please choose from the following responses as I’m trying to plan my future. Â Feel free …
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Has Anybody Seen My Freaking Prozac?
We are conditioned to think from an early age that the wealthiest people are the ones we ought to emulate. We’re bombarded with their actions on television and in the news. Entire magazines are dedicated to following the lives of the usually rich, and generally famous. It’s not that our parents told us money would make us happy. Most of us were told that money isn’t ‘everything’. We humans have this tendency to ignore words, then listen to actions. When dad worked through the weekend, or mom gushed over that …
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Time, the Bane of Us All
“It’s possible to control the time I have available to me.” We’ve probably all heard this over and over again our whole lives, although sometimes it’s a little hard to fathom. A few weeks ago, I decided to embark on “a ruthless crusade against wasting time”, and reclaim time as my own once again and you know, get things done (sound familiar?). The goal of course, is to find the best hacks, tips, and tricks, that’ll make things easier, and ultimately, save money by saving time. At this point, I …
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Wanderlust: sometimes the grass _is_ greener on the other side.
Growing up, I moved just about every year. Occasionally we stayed in one place for longer, say two or three years, but we also had shorter stints to make up for those more lengthy “visits.” All tallied, I moved twenty-one times before I left home for college at the age of 17. I don’t bring this up to gripe about my nomadic childhood, but only to help contextualize my current wanderlust. I learned some valuable lessons as a result of the constant change. Some enjoyable and some painful, of course. …
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