Year: 2017

How to stay in touch with your LinkedIn contacts

“Your network is your net worth.” “Your network is your net worth” – We’ve had that hammered into us from day one in our entrepreneurship journey. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” –…

March 14, 2017
62 Tips on Crushing Public Speaking

According to Warren Buffet, the one skill that raises your value by 50% is public speaking. This comes from the same man who signed up for public speaking class and then dropped out before attending a single class. And I can empathize. The scariest thing I did in 2016? Public speaking. Before we begin… Before…

March 1, 2017
Learning from terrible networking

After Tim Ferriss shared my article on Forbes and people came out of the woodwork to try to network with me, I thought I had seen every instance of terrible networking. I was wrong. One of these days I’m going to write a proper guide to networking, but let my latest experience with “bad networking”…

February 14, 2017
How I made my guest post a massive success [CASE STUDY]

I was so excited the first time I had a guest post go up. I could see it – the article would go up, people would read it, our work would be lauded, and voila – we would be swept up in the glitterati and the business would boom. The reality? The post went up,…

February 1, 2017
How I got 27 professional chefs & bakers to make cookies

I write this coming down from what can only be described as an epic sugar high. While few words are more abused than “epic,” it applies here, for this happened on Saturday: You are looking at the cookies for Chocolate Chip Cookie Off 2017 (henceforth: CCCO2017), the sequel to the original Chocolate Chip Cookie Off.…

January 19, 2017