I have a dedicated virtual assistant who helps me out for 10 hours a month through an awesome company called Zirtual. For the next 6 months I’m getting this service for free… My virtual assistant’s name is Josiah and he’s an absolute stud. Today I want to tell you how I’ve leveraged existing assets to [...]
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My System for Remembering to Write FollowUp Emails
A prominent nemisis of opportunity and value creation is being incompetent at following up with people. I want to share my system for remember to write followup emails. But first… I want to deflate the hesitancy around following up with people if they haven’t responded to you. I don’t care whether we’re talking about doing [...]
How What You Put in Your Body Effects Sleep
This week I came out with my first Udemy Course called Sleep Hacking: Have More Energy, Spend Less Time in Bed. I created the course because I’ve been able to dramatically increase my energy while reducing my total sleep time from an average of 7.5 to 6 hours a night by building great habits [...]
My First Month Using A Virtual Assistant…Was Awesome
If you’re anything like me, you were giddy after first hearing about virtual assistants. My challenge was that I had no idea what to outsource or how to use a VA effectively. But as a someone who loves efficiency, I knew I wanted one. (Get Yours Here!) Sound familiar? Well, I just completed my first [...]
One Resource I Use to Get Results Faster
I’ve donated more money to the driving range than I’d like to admit. You see, growing up I was told in order to improve or perform something at a high level, the best thing to do was practice. In the context of aspiring to break triple digits on the links, I thought hitting the range and [...]
Sleep Hacking: How to Sleep Better
I’m constantly trying to optimize my sleep. Why you ask? So I have can as many waking hours of the day to do the things I love and be productive while maintaining a high energy level and healthy lifestyle : ) I compiled some of my learnings into a slideshare presentation called Sleep Hacking: How [...]
The Lost Art of Isolated Thinking
Hurricane Sandy has been a pretty thought provoking experience. Some of things that have occupied my mind over the past 2 weeks: I’m so incredibly fortunate that family, friends, and colleagues are safe. We are not in control, no matter how hard we try to be. Times of desperation bring out the best in some [...]
One Approach to Get Hours of Your Life Back
I’ve gotten hours of my life back over the past year by borrowing a practice employed by customer service departments. For whatever reason, people approach me with the same questions over and over again. How do I get a job in business development? How do I get access to the SinglePlatform API? Is it free? [...]
BD Best Practice: Send A Meeting Agenda
Meetings can be a colossal waste of time especially in a field that harbors speculative conversations like Business Development. When appropriate, one practice I use to maximize meeting efficiency is to email the meeting attendee(s) an agenda 2-3 hours prior to the meeting. These emails typically contain the meeting objective, an outline of what [...]
The Problem With To-Do Lists
To Do Lists are great for making you feel productive, but they’re not always an effective way to accomplish your goals or lead your best life…at least the way that I was approaching them. Until about 2 weeks ago, I always approached to do lists in a linear fashion. I’d prioritize my list by putting [...]
There’s No App for That?
Apps make our lives easier…but they aren’t going to actually do the heavy lifting for us. One of the attendees of my last skillshare class expressed some disappointment after I described how I manage my network. My personal CRM methodology is built on Google Docs. Specifically, I use a spreadsheet to keep track of the last time [...]
Rethinking Nights and Weekends Projects
I talk to a lot of people who have “nights and weekends” projects. Sometimes these are things they’re working on for fun. Other times these are products that people think they’d like to form a company around some day. People in the latter camp often say they’d leave their day job if their nights and [...]
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