Derek Halpern of Social Triggers had a brilliant post recently about the importance of promoting your work. (Thanks to Tom Ewer for pointing it out.) Derek says he spends 20 percent of his time creating and 80 percent promoting. He writes: If you spend time writing a piece of content, and that content only gets […]
When you work for yourself, you set your own schedule. You determine your priorities. You choose what type of work you do and when. You’d think that would mean it’s easier to find time to exercise and stay fit. But too many entrepreneurs wish they were in better shape. They find it difficult to exercise […]
A few years ago, I developed a course called Use Social Media to Make Your Own Luck. It was my first course, and I was over the moon when participants gave it raving reviews. My editor who reviewed the course even told me I’d hit my sweet spot, that THIS was what I was meant […]
As part of my efforts to systemize and streamline Socialexis, I’m working with business coach Charlie Gilkey. He’s helping me tighten up my team, put systems in place that will help us do better work, and navigate a few issues I wasn’t sure how to tackle on my own. In one of our recent sessions, […]
The last six months have been huge for my company, Socialexis. I hesitate to write too much about this yet because I think I’ll see the full picture more clearly — and be better able to pull out important lessons — once the transition is complete. But I also see the value in sharing while […]
Two years ago today, I left my day job to turn my side hustle into a full-time career. Now, Socialexis has become something I never expected. I’m no longer a solopreneur; I’ve got a team of 10 impressive go-getters helping me do great work. We’re an LLC, offering content marketing services like blogging and social […]
I’m only 30 pages into Josh Kaufman’s book, The First 20 Hours: Mastering the Toughest Part of Learning Anything, but here’s my favorite part so far: learning, he says, isn’t the same thing as skill acquisition. Learning is studying. It’s reading. It’s acquiring knowledge. But if you want to master anything, learning is only the […]
It’s strange, this world we live in. You’d think work should go around your life — not the other way around. But too many of us find ourselves slaves to the workday, struggling to fit in exercise or relationships or self-improvement wherever we can. Rather than putting our priorities first, we fit them in around […]
After the World Domination Summit, one of the things I heard myself and other attendees saying again and again was how great it was to be surrounded by people who want to live remarkable lives. People who want to live differently. Who have great stories to tell. Who see the world through a lens that’s […]
If there’s one big mistake young people make in their careers, it’s this: they work so hard for their employer that they forget to invest in themselves. Why is that a big mistake? Why does it matter more than ever before? Because in our new digital world of work, all workers are dispensable. Yes, that […]