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Careers Without Limits for Educators Presents Joel Block
Published by Ryan Clifford Sep 30, 2009, Comments(0)
Ground-Breaking Business Advice for Educators-turned-Entrepreneurs
An Interview with Joel G. Block
For the Careers Without Limits for Educators Learning Series
As a part of our upcoming Careers Without Limits for Educators learning series, we recently interviewed Joel Block, world renowned entrepreneur, business growth adviser, writer, speaker, venture capitalist, real estate syndicator, and overall business expert. He weighed in on many critical topics for aspiring entrepreneurs with a special emphasis on education workers seeking business opportunities. The video above is sneak preview of a few of the many topics that we explored with Joel.
Careers Without Limits for Educators is the only business resource available for educators seeking opportunities - whether it's starting your own business, founding a non-profit, working as a consultant, joining a business - whatever. We have found the...
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How to Make the Most of Social Networking (Part Two of Two)
Published by Ryan Clifford Aug 24, 2009, Comments(0)
How to Get the Most Out of Social Networking
Five Quick Tips
Now for the true topic at hand: Social Networking and how to make it actually work for you, beyond killing time at work. The first step is making it a priority to build a professional network. On that note, you'll do a lot better to begin building a network for the sake of having established contacts with mutual interests, rather than to give yourself an opportunity to sell something or find a job. Too often networking doesn't become a priority until we need to sell ourselves to potential employers. And the fact is that at that point, we're not actually networking, we're prospecting (see next paragraph for distinction between the two). And the worst part is that often we get that new job and then let the network we took so much effort building fall by the wayside. Lesson: Begin building your professional network NOW, even if you have no immediate...
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How to Make the Most of Social Networking (Part One of Two)
Published by Ryan Clifford Aug 10, 2009, Comments(0)
How to get the most out of Social Networking
I've been working on a blog post about "Playing to Your Strengths" for the past two months and for the first time am re-thinking it. This was going to be my best post ever, about a topic that rarely has light shed on it, but now it may be undermined by a recent experience. I am not much of a small talker and as a result I'm not naturally inclined to seek out networking opportunities (ie. cocktail parties, chamber of commerce meetings, mixers, etc.). In fact, I get a bit nervous and very apprehensive as those events approach, even to the point of passing on them at the last minute. The premise of my "Playing to Your Strengths" blog was that we should identify our strengths and weaknesses and arrange our careers so we can take advantage of those strengths and delegate our weaknesses, which will lead to exponentially greater productivity and effectiveness, not to mention happiness. And while...
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