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If you never want to have to make proposals and chase people again, add more value than everyone else. One of the easiest ways to do that is just to make your offer do more.
Frankie Fihn • Beyond the Agency Box
Promoting other people’s work and sharing links to interesting articles is fine, but don’t expect that merely doing that will help you gain followers or attention. People follow you (or your business) because that’s what they’re interested in—you. I follow Shaquille O’Neal’s tweets and posts because I’m interested in what he has to say. If he spent
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Rory Sutherland on Lenny’s Podcast:
Products like Meta Portal TV, Google Glass, Japanese toilets, and wine boxes were amazing products but something about the timing or the marketing was wrong and the consumer never bit
Rory on Japanese toilets: “I think it’s barbaric that the Western Hemisphere dry wipes.”
The reason most people adopt new technology
55 Minutes of Social Media Content Strategy for Entrepreneurs
youtube.comKyle Poyar • The emerging startup playbook
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
Exercise: think of two people in your network who don’t know each other but you think can add value to each other’s lives. Introduce them. Do this every day. Get better and better at it. The more value you bring to the people in your network (even if it doesn’t directly bring value to you in an immediate way), the greater the value of your network.
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