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Why Turning Services into Products is Good for Business AND Customers

April 26, 2014 / / 0 Comments

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Lynn Serafinn explains how and why business owners can make more money and provide more value to clients (and themselves) by turning services into products. While many of my clients are authors, they also tend to be what I call “service providers” – coaches, counsellors, mentors, consultants, therapists, and various kinds of practitioners. The services they offer enhance their clients’ and customers’ business, health, personal and professional life, and even spiritual life. While all of these services have great value to those who use them, it is my experience that many business owners who offer such services find it difficult to market themselves and flog their wares to the public. I touch upon this subject towards…

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These Are the Screws You Should Be Using

April 26, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Devon Jarvis April 25, 2014 9:00 AM

Last weekend I was installing some 2 x 4 blocking for a bathroom cabinet, and I really struggled to drive the screws into the lumber. In fact, whenever I use drywall screws to build stuff, they break or strip. Any suggestions? I’ve tried nailing, but there’s not enough room to swing a hammer. Enough, already! Let’s just stop using drywall screws for construction. We’ve all done it. Yes, they’re cheap. Yes, we always seem to have a box or two of them handy. But they’re not multipurpose screws; they’re good for one thing, and that’s hanging drywall. They almost always snap when overtorqued or driven into hard, dry lumber. (Fact: They’re engineered to be brittle, which suits the drive-and…

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Average Environments Beget Average Work

April 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

David wrote this on Jul 28 2008

Grady Booch delivered the following axiom at BrainstormTECH last week: “The average work of the average worker is average”. At first, it sounded perfectly rational. But on second take, I got really bothered by this. It’s based on an assumption of bad, average, and good as being static attributes of a person that I find whole fully offensive and narrow minded. In my experience, we’re all capable of bad, average, and good work. I’ve certainly done bad work at times and plenty of average work. What I’ve realized is that the good and the exceptional work is at least as much about my environment as it is about me. Average environments begets average work. Good people…

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Google Revealed the Incredibly Simple Formula For Writing Killer Resumes

April 21, 2014 / / 0 Comments

It’s not exactly E=mc². But for would-be job hunters, it’s probably a lot more useful. In a Q&A-style interview with Google’s senior vice president of people operations Laszlo Bock, The New York Times’s Tom Friedman fished a few seriously helpful words of wisdom out of the search giant’s human resources chief. This one is perhaps the most concrete. How do you write a good resume? The key, Bock said, is to frame your strengths as: I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z. Most people would write a resume like this: “Wrote editorials for The New York Times.” Better would be to say: “Had 50 op-eds published compared…

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Google just revealed the incredibly simple formula for killer résumés – Quartz

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