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How Not To Suck At Starting a Podcast, Part 1
*Disclaimer: We don’t know what we are doing So let’s get one thing straight, before we started our podcast, we’ve never listened to one single podcast in our entire lives. Not one. Not ever. It just wasn’t on our collective radar. Over the past two years, multiple people have told us we are, and I…
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How Not To Suck At Sales
“Let me tell you why I suck as a salesman” – Tommy Callahan Let me preface this by stating that I have been a professional sales guy since the age of 17. I have sold clothing in the mall (commission only for Merry Go Round), beer, and IT hardware and services since 1997-ish. Along the…
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How Not To Suck At Interviewing People
“See this? Our website? I just want it to suck less. Can you make it suck less? I have a big bag of money for someone that can make it suck less for me. ” – a CTO who shall remain nameless, during a business meeting circa 1999 You know what sucks more than anything else…
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How Not To Suck At Interviewing For A Job, Part I
Congratulations, you’ve made it past the first hurdle. You’ve gotten past the gatekeepers, resume screeners, candidate tracking systems, and have gotten a call or email that someone would actually like to talk to you about hiring you for a job that they have open. Now, let’s not kid ourselves – even though you’ve made it…
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How Not To Suck At Starting a Networking Group
An interesting thing has been happening lately. People have asked us how we do what we do. People in Information Technology, but in other parts of the state, or even other parts of the country. People in other industries who are just as tired as we were of the dbags and lame events in their world,…
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How Not To Suck at LinkedIn: 2014 Edition
Bob gets an assist on writing this one. What started as an update to an earlier entry I wrote in 2012 became one of the presentations that we’ve done for several groups now, from MEDC’s Shifting Gears classes to an SMCD EDU event among others. Much like The 10 Commandments of Networking and The 10…
