How to Find the World’s Best Assistant A few years ago I ran a simple ad on Craigslist here in Toronto that attracted some great resumes. The ad was for a role as my assistant, or perhaps more appropriately named, “My Apprentice”. That was how my current Director of Marketing at Turbulence Training entered into the TT World. She started out doing errands, while at the same time being given plenty of great materials (some of my own as well as Frank Kern’s products) to study. She was a masterful apprentice. But she’s very busy with tasks that aren’t worth her time. And so once again we were back out looking for a new TT apprentice. After all, very BIG changes are underway at TT. I put together an even better ad based on one that was put together by Matt Smith, my business partner at ETR. You are free to model this ad. Make sure you include plenty of detail, with lots of exclusionary descriptions and tasks so that you weed out the people that would just be a waste of your time. Be very clear in your communication. So if you are…
Novellablog: Yes, You Can Edit Your Own Work, but You Will Probably Frack It Up. | The Clockwork Foundry It will not surprise my nerd audience that I’m watching Battlestar Galactica as I write this. But that’s neither here nor there. We are now progressing into the portion of this series I like to call Here’s a list of things I am worried about with this project: 1) Finishing the novella. Then, right on schedule, (I KNOW!!) 1) Without running the agent/editor gauntlet, how do I actually know this thing is any good? I had already decided I needed to have someone else copyedit the manuscript. We all make mistakes. All of these things get fixed because someone other than me looks at the manuscript in a particular way. And yet. A page from the revised final draft of Ellen Raskin's THE WESTING GAME. The last time I got a manuscript back from my editor at Clarion, it was prefaced by an email that said (I am not paraphrasing), “Great job, Kate! What would it look like if she thought the manuscript quote-needed work-unquote? Then there’s this to panic about: catching potential historical mistakes.
12 Tips for Time Management Editor's Note: A version of this article previously appeared at AnnMehl.com. Recently, in my work as a business coach, I was asked to give a presentation at a company offsite on the subject of "productivity and time management." In order to prepare for this, I polled a number of friends and colleagues -- ordinary people whose work styles I admired -- on their individual work habits. Nobody I spoke to felt like they had enough time. It's as if we've all become the proverbial "plate spinners," those talented jugglers rushing from plate to plate in order to keep each one spinning in the air. Based on my interviews, there were a number of themes that emerged from those who managed to successfully juggle their many labors. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Ann Mehl is an executive coach.
FUNNY WOMEN #82: Apply Your Feelings Of Professional Inadequacy To A Really Adorable Birthday Cake In a perfect world, we would emerge from the womb clutching our CVs in our tiny, clenched palms. Our eyes wouldn’t yet be open, but still we’d be all, Here, look at how accomplished. Womb, it would read. Managing Editor of Being Inside a Body. Baby, it would say. Nine months old, and already we would have detailed lists of achievements: awards won, publications scored, the way we spent our time when we weren’t spending it acquiring life. Experience: Nine months of stellar attendance. Volunteer work: making you glowy as fuck. And all of it would be perfectly formatted, stylishly indented, the font so drop-dead gorgeous even Papyrus would be jealous. We’d be brand new but impressive. Because who could compete with that? What if first I was a baby with accomplishments in letterpress? Would that change a thing? In the meantime, I’m making plans. Because I will do that. And it gets worse every year. First drive across town to that hulking ass Wal-Mart that stands alone in the middle of nowhere.
Richard Branson's 21 Survival Strategies For Small Business Success We share with you Richard Bransons 21 Small Business Strategies, taken from the Billionaire & UK Entrepreneurs Auto Biography “Losing My Virginity: How I’ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way“. Richard Branson has faced an immense amount of challenges along the way and has applied these 21 strategies to carry all of his Successful businesses through thick and thin. Read on to find the Top 21 of Richard Branson’s Small Business Strategies for running a Successful business. Richard Branson’s 21 Survival Strategies For Small Business Success 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Richard Branson’s Success Quotes To Live By: “We have always had a pretty competitive ferocious battle with British Airways. “Screw it, let’s do it.” – Richard Branson “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson “Above all, you want to create something you are proud of.
Win a place on a top writing course - Lifestyle xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – 26 August 2012 The course, at The O'Brien Press in Rathgar, also includes one-on-one assessment of your work with a possibility of representation by the Author Rights Agency. The Making a Novel course is led by Author Rights Agency director Svetlana Pironko and novelist Kevin Stevens. To celebrate the Making a Novel course's third birthday, we're delighted to offer a trio of terrific prizes. Submissions will be accepted by email only to writing@authorrightsagency.com in Word, PDF or RTF document. For more information about the Making a Novel course, visit www.authorrightsagency.com. 5 Killer “Hacks” for Networking at Events Social media is hot. Everyone is talking about Facebook, Twitter, and every other social media site under the sun. These are great tools for building and maintaining relationships. But they aren’t everything. When it comes to developing powerful relationships, social media is still no substitute for old-fashioned, face-to-face networking. In-person networking is simply one of the best activities you can engage in for your career or your business, hands down. Anyone who thinks they can stay behind their computer, holed away at home, relying 100% on social media for meeting people and developing key relationships is fooling themselves. In fact, the most effective networking approach today is twofold: one part online, and one part old-fashioned, face-to-face, in-person networking. A good networking plan does not rely too much on either online or offline networking, but does include aspects of both. How Face-to-Face Networking Is Different 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now I want to hear from you.
Charles Harris - ScreenLab | Writing, Directing, Reading, Learning ENSURE NETWORK MARKETING SUCCESS IN 2014 WITH THESE 6 TOP TIPS FROM INDUSTRY EXPERT YOGEETA MISTRY It’s that time of year again and, like many of you, I’m preparing for Christmas fun and festivities. Your sales are probably the best they have been all year and it’s easy to get caught up in the moment of fantastic sales, lots of new people sponsored into your organisation, plenty of positive results and ending the year with a bang. But don’t let the bubble burst on December 31. If not planned well enough, January could feel like a bleak midwinter. Successful network marketers not only know how to celebrate their successes, but they also know the power of reviewing the previous year and indentifying where they can make changes to take even bigger steps forward. By taking some well thought out and planned strategic steps prior to Christmas - and I would recommend actioning this sometime in November - you can guarantee a much more profitable January. CONTACT IS KEY January can be the time of year when some of your team members are evaluating whether to continue with you.