There is bullshitting and then there is proper sales. Unfortunately, for most people, it’s the very same thing. Why do so many people hate sales? I think it’s because they are annoyed by people calling them at evening asking if they want to buy insurance. But guess what, even the innocent question “Do you want fries with that?” is a part of sales. This simple sales trick earns McDonalds millions of dollars each year. Continue reading “Do you want fries with that?” »
Do you want fries with that?
Posted in Sales tips
Tagged business, communication, education, ideas, sales, skill, success
Making Millions with Liberal Arts Degree?
What do Matt Mullenweg- the founder of WordPress, Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and founding president Sean Parker, fashion designer Mark Ecko all have in common? They are all successful, making millions of dollars and – they don’t have a college degree.
Whether you do have a college degree or not, you probably already know that they don’t teach you all the important things at school. When you graduate with 50 000 USD or more of debt with a degree in liberal arts with no job offer, you might realize 4 years and all the money spent on formal education was a bad investment. Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal and now a venture capitalist, calls it a Higher Education Bubble. “A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed,” he says. “Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like telling the world there’s no Santa Claus.”
Continue reading “Making Millions with Liberal Arts Degree?” »
Tagged book, business, educations, entrepreneur, sales, success
Step 1: Invite Business Partners
Invitation process for your event is the first and most important step as without guests, there would be no event, right? Don’t save money on inviting, don’t be cheap! In upcoming posts I will give you advice on where you can save some budget. Impress your business partners with these few tips:
How to pack a suitcase or backpack
All summer long I was trying to figure out the best way to pack my suitcase and finally, I have a great solution 
There are many ways how to decrease the number of items you pack as taking 2 in 1 shampoo or taking double sided jacket, but you still have a lot of to put into suitcase, especially if you’re flying with low-cost airlines or backpacking across Europe. However, there is a really simple trick to packing that flight attendants usually use and I’m gonna show you how.
Tagged backpack, clothes, how to, how to pack, pack clothes, packing, packing tip, suitcase, the best way, travel, travelling tip, way to
The Invisible Purple Cow
Seth Godin might be a marketing guru, but there is one thing he might mistaken. Did you read his bestselling book The Purple Cow? If you happen to be travelling across a country and looking out of the window, you might see a lot of cows. After some time, those cows are all the same and you start ignoring them. But imagine there would be suddenly a purple cow! Would you notice? Basically, the whole idea is that brown or black/white cows are boring, but purple cow is remarkable and so you pay attention. But is it really that easy? Is this a good marketing advice? Just stand out and customers will notice you and your products? Well, let’s see.
Posted in Books, Marketing, Psychology
Tagged apple, attention, book, facebook, google plus, invisible gorilla, ipad, iphone, joshua bell, marketing, Milka, psychology, purple cow, seth godin, washington post
How to avoid Idiots when Online Dating
So you are a busy girl and want to find some nice guy on dating websites. How do you separate weed from grass quickly so you don’t end up with a broken heart? With a very simple trick. It’s actually gonna be a lot of fun!
I am not going to give you advices on what profile picture to choose or how to describe your personality. You are a big girl, you can handle that. But there is one thing you should do. Create two profiles. Why? To nab idiots!
Posted in Social
Tagged dating, dating tips, dating website, love, men, online dating, profile, relationship, social, women
How to get CEOs on the phone
Whether you are a startup or existing small business looking for new sales you need to get contacts. How do you get in touch with important people and more important – how do you get their attention? There are few tricks I use.
1) You need personal assistant
You actually don’t have to hire one. All you have to do is to appear to be important enough to have one. I used to call assistants of general directors and introduced myself with false name claiming I was personal assistant to Martina. To myself. Martina, the director. Whoa! I was actually oneman-show company, but they never knew. That way I got meetings with lot of important people, got some sales and after some time I had enough money to hire a real assistant.
Google Chrome Apps: Get professional Email Signatures
Even if you use Gmail of Yahoo email accounts for business, you can have cool signatures and promote your Twitter/Blog or support various causes thanks to these cool Google Chrome Apps:
Create custom email signature – choose fonts, colors, links and images. You can add your Twitter account showing your latest post, LinkedIn or Facebook account, random quotes, promote your eBay products, add green footer, promote your SlideShare presentation, ad banner, share music (if you use Pandora, Last.fm or Blip.fm), horoscopes, support WWF and much more. You get 2 signatures for free (business, personal) with social and IM icons for free. More signatures or custom social icons would cost you from $24/year. WiseStamp is supported by Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail only, available also for Safari and Firefox. Download it here. I would recommend to use it only when you are sure receiver ‘s email account supports stylized emails.
Continue reading “Google Chrome Apps: Get professional Email Signatures” »
Notes on “Hot, Flat & Crowded” Book by Thomas L. Friedman
I enjoyed Friedman’s previous book about Globalisation – The World is Flat which became international bestseller and as an eco-fan I had to read this one (I do admit I used to be Greenpeace activist when I was 15 . But what Friedman did was writing about the future! Right, he did mention present with all the dirty little secrets of governments and corporations ruining our planet and the past when the nature was yet untouched, but what I really enjoyed was reading about the future. And what a bright future that was! Friedman’s knowledge of technologies, imagination and optimism drew a picture of how we are going to survive and live in few years in my head and I would like to share some parts of the book with you:
“The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones.”
Continue reading “Notes on “Hot, Flat & Crowded” Book by Thomas L. Friedman” »
Posted in Books
Tagged book, crowded, eco-friendly, environment, flat, green, hot, world
