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📙 🎂 My book had a birthday! 🎊 🎉
This week marks the 1-year anniversary of the publication of my first book, Marketing Yourself. Here's the replay of the Launch Party. During this 45-minute video, recorded last year, you can see: the book covers I (almost) used the 4 levels of a Personal Platform the 4 Cornerstones that elevate your platform to the next level An overview of the book from Sharí Alexander, who wrote the foreword Writing this book took me five years, because I wanted it to be good. People say [...]
Reward Yourself for Inbox Zero
I was in the middle of mighty-tasking when I had a brilliant idea. This idea had nothing to do with the project I was working on. If I had stopped to tend to this idea properly, it would derail the state of flow I had achieved. I did not want to sacrifice my current project for a new idea, even if it was brilliant. I’ve learned the hard way: shiny, new ideas might turn out to be dull after a while, and [...]
Twitter > X – the worst rebrand of all time
The world's richest man wrecked one of the world's most beloved brands. How it started / How it's going by Midjourney “My first reaction was, ‘Is this a joke?’…Honestly, I think it’s idiotic,” said Matt Egan, managing director of strategy at brand experience firm Siegel+Gale. “From a branding point of view and a marketing point of view, it just seems like a crazy idea.” According to Bloomberg, this move may have discarded between $4 billion and $20 billion of [...]
From Candyland to Chess: Failing Games to Build Resilience
I'm just gonna say it: Candyland is a boring game. Candyland art by Midjourney I’ve played this game dozens - maybe hundreds - of times with my own children. We don’t play it anymore, because now that they are older, they agree that it is boring to play. But when they were young, this game was great for toddlers who were just learning how to play board games, and how to fail gracefully. The rules are simple [...]
New WordPress design and Mighty Network community
Rebecca Houghton wanted to position her community as the premium resource for B-Suite Leaders - the modern middle manager. But her website was built on WordPress.com (not .org), her team had a hard time making it work, and there was not enough technical aptitude to create a membership experience that was smooth and easy. The business couldn’t get any bigger because of capacity constraints, so they could not sell more, grow, or scale within their existing systems. BoldHR® contracted Stellar Platforms to undertake [...]
Play with your work, especially if it’s boring.
Ever since I ran away and joined the circus (true story!) I’ve always seen my work as a form of play. The harder the work, the harder I have to play to get through it. I learned this from the Seven Dwarves. They worked all day in the mines, and they didn’t grumble and complain (except for Grumpy, of course, but he was just staying in character). They used a simple technique that I have found very valuable: Whistle [...]
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