Whats Letting Your Business Down Right Now

Whats Letting Your Business Down Right Now When you know that you’re business is struggling, it can be tough. During this period, you’ll often find that you tend to do one of two things. You’ll either dwell on it and find yourself struggling to cope, or you’ll find that you just stay in denial and don’t tend to do something about it at all. But both options don’t really do you any good. Instead, when you kind of realize that you’re not doing as well as you want to, you need to take action. If you don’t do anything at all, you will fail. It’s as simple as that. The best thing is, that no matter what kind of position you’re in now, you can turn things around. But to do that, you have to work out where the issues lie. 1) Lack Of Direction First of all, you may find that you’ve just lost your sense of direction. And this happens. Sometimes, you get to a point where you’re doing okay, but then you don’t know where you need to go next. And it’s this stage that lets you down the most. Because you can’t always see what you need to do to move forward, so you stagnate. So, when this happens, you have to strip everything back and think about why you’re doing what you’re doing. The next point can help you here too. 2) Inability To Listen Next up, if you’re someone that isn’t listening to your customers, you’re definitely going to struggle. You will find it hard to be able to move forward or create any kind of engagement, because you’re just not giving your audience what they want. You have to really listen to their needs in order to grow. If you are someone that lost direction, listening to your audience can also help to get you back on track. 3)  Non-Existent Branding From here, if you don’t have a brand in place, this is going to affect you. It’s important that you’re able to come up with some branding that will allow you to look professional, and showcase what your business stands for. When you have strong branding, you can often connect with your customers easily and you’ll find that your marketing is reinforced too. 4) Lack Of Organization So next, you may find that you’re just not organized enough. If you’re struggling to stay organized, you need to get software, like Strategy Overview, that can take care of that for you. The more organized you are, the better your business will be able to perform. 5) Insufficient Funds And finally, a huge issue that can affect a lot of people is not having enough money to do what you want to moving forward. Sometimes, this is a huge issue. But it doesn’t have to be anything that really stops you. Instead, you just need to be a lot more aggressive about how you take action. You’ll need to find an investor to overcome this, and if you have a great idea, then you should be able to secure the funding you need to find success.

The Secret (OK, MY Secret)

The Secret (OK, MY Secret) I turned to Luke last week and exclaimed: Can you believe Im pulling this off?! I made more money last month than I did at my corporate job (not to brag or anything, but for serious this was a big frakkin deal). I cant start with any new clients for about 2 months. And, well, it was working. Luke smiled and responded: Yes. Yes I can. I smiled smally (yes, smally), secretively, warmly, quietly and said: Me too. I wish Ive been told The Secret earlier, although I dont think I would have accepted it, believed in it, wouldnt have rolled my eyes at it if I didnt experience it firsthand for myself. The Secret: Be You! by wordboner Be You. (unapologetically, authentically, quirkily, sweetly, vulnerably) Feathered Warriors TRUST by Her Painted Word Trust Your Compass. (your gut, your heart, your quiet voice, your yes, your uh-oh feelings) yes yes yes by Jessica Swift Embrace the Optimist. (the other shoe wont drop. it all happens for a reason. expect the best) Love Cloud by Claudia Pearson and found on kind over matter Surround Yourself with Love. (people, things, places) joy by whimsy studios and found on kind over matter Know What You Need and Get It. (even if it takes time, even if its stupid or scary or impossible) the journey by Volume 25 Enjoy Where You Are. (theres time to go further. your life is now. the present is your present) There they are. My Secrets, which make up The Secret not only to my current success, but to, well, My Life. My life to the fullest. My lovely, sweet, kissy, warm, amazeballs life. ******************************************************************************************************* Super Secretnessity: Have ya heard about my coolaboration with Jess Swift, The Declaration of You? Come check out the top secret info, subscribe to our newsletter to get more top secret info, grab our button for your site! Its pretty. Sensational Spring: It’s Authenticity month â€" come join us!

Should You Follow SpecificFormatting When Writing Your Resume?

Should You Follow SpecificFormatting When Writing Your Resume?Should you follow specific formatting when writing your resume? By following specific formatting, you will be able to make your resume look professional, and make it look like you know what you are doing.What exactly is resume format? It is a way to style your resume to look professional. This can help you get more interviews by giving you a formal appearance to appear more informed. You will also feel more confident about your resume when you use this specific formula.There are many companies out there that offer the service of specific formatting. It is important to understand all the different options that are available, but at the same time you need to remember that a well-formatted resume is a very important aspect of the job hunting process.So, in order to create a good format you should first of all think about what you are trying to accomplish with your resume. This is important because it will determine how you wi ll present it.First of all, before you actually start putting your resume together you will need to think about what type of job you want to have. If you are looking for a job in sales, then it is important to remember that the format that you use will depend on the type of sales job you are looking for. If you are looking for a sales job then it is important to make sure that your resume looks professional.When you go to apply for a job you will need to ensure that you have your cover letter and your resume ready to go. Your cover letter will be used as a more personal introduction to the person who is interviewing you. Therefore, you should make sure that you put a quality cover letter in your resume. So in order to follow a good format when writing your resume you should start with an introduction to the person you are trying to contact. Then you will need to make sure that you have an effective cover letter. Finally, you will need to ensure that you have a professionally formatt ed resume in front of you.

Anne and Susan Wojcicki Meet the Self-Made Millionaires

Anne and Susan Wojcicki Meet the Self-Made Millionaires Success runs in the Wojcicki family. Susan and Anne Wojcicki are sisters with superstar tech resumes. Susan, 50, is the CEO of YouTube and has long worked for Google. Anne, 45, cofounded and serves as CEO of the genetic testing website 23andMe. Their skyrocketing careers recently landed them on Forbes’ list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, at No. 42 and No. 44, respectively. Susan’s estimated net worth is $480 million, while Anne’s is $440 million. Oh, and their other sister is no slacker: Janet is an anthropologist and an epidemiologist who works at University of California, San Francisco. Appropriately enough given their Silicon Valley bona fides, the Wojcicki sisters grew up in the valley. They were raised in Palo Alto, home to Stanford. Their father Stanley was chairman of the university’s physics department and is now professor of physics emeritus. He fled Poland at age 12 in 1949 when Communists took over the country. Their mother Esther came from a family of poor Orthodox Russian Jews who immigrated to New York in the 1920s. She currently heads up a journalism program at Palo Alto High School (James Franco was a student). The girls grew up on the university’s campus and, by all accounts, quickly learned a sense of independence. “My parents really looked at us always as like mini-adults,” Anne Wojcicki told CNBC. “I think the one thing that my parents really did is they gave us a taste of freedom. And they encouraged it. They encouraged us to find our passions, they weren’t controlling.” That meant that when Anne wanted to pursue figure skating, which the parents opposedâ€"preferring she play tennisâ€"they still let her follow through with her ambitions. But she had to pay for it herself. And she did through fundraising competitions. “In some ways, it was the first example of me being stubborn where I said like, ‘I know that you don’t want me to do this. You want me to do tennis, and I’m not going to. I’m going to skate, and I’m going to figure out my own way to do it whether you support me or not,'” she said. Education was also a bedrock principle for the family. “My parents were really clear like you should do something that’s meaningful in the world. And I look at the Stanford campus community and the people I grew up with were people who did things that were meaningful. They weren’t necessarily financially successful, but they were contributing to society in some way,” Anne said. “I felt pressure that I knew I had to go to college. I knew that my parents would be disappointed if I didn’t put in my best.” She and Susan rose to the challenge: Susan attended Harvard, while Anne went to Yale. Susan became Google’s 16th employee in 1999, working as the search giant’s first marketing manager. She went on to convince company brass to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 (it’s now valued at $90 billion), leading to her top position at the Alphabet subsidiary. Susan sold the YouTube pitch after Google started its own user-driven video service, and she uploaded its first clip: “a purple Muppet singing a nonsense song,” she recalled in the book Measure What Matters. She then worked up a spreadsheet to justify the hefty price for YouTube, which had a larger market share. Anne’s path was slightly more circuitous. She was a Wall Street analyst but quit that job to pursue medical school. Then she diverged again in 2006 to start 23andMe, a concept she launched with celebrity-attended spit parties, during New York Fashion Week (saliva provides the DNA used for the firm’s tests). She discussed the idea with her well-connected friends. CEOs and sisters Anne Wojcicki (L) and Susan Wojcicki (R) pose backstage during the 2018 Breakthrough Prize at NASA Ames Research Center on December 3, 2017 in Mountain View, California. C Flaniganâ€"FilmMagic “I was sitting at a table at Allen Company with Wendi Murdoch, Barry Diller, Diane von Furstenberg, Anderson Cooper, and Sergey, and we were talking about tongue curling,” Anne told The New York Times in 2008 as the startup was getting off the ground. “Barry cannot roll his tongue, but Anderson Cooper can do a really complicated four-leaf clover.” Anne married Sergey Brin, a Google cofounder, with whom she has kids. But the two split in 2013 (which means that, yes, her sister works under her ex). That year turned out to be a bad one for Anne. It was also when the FDA ruled that 23andMe’s spit vial was “an unapproved medical device.” As a result, it changed its procedures and reconfigured its relationship with the FDA. 23andMe recovered from that low and now offers FDA-approved tests for a range of health factors, along with more conventional ancestry reports. It’s also valued at $1.8 billion. Anne bounced back, too, remaining friendly with Brin and even dating baseball star Alex Rodriguez for a time (a non-baseball viewer, she apparently had trouble relating to his passions). Anne likely owes that resilience, in her personal life and phenomenal professional arc, to the spirit her mother gave her and her sisters. “My mom is utterly the believer, like she can get anything done,” Anne told The New York Times. “She had a real fighter mentality growing up, and I feel that was how we were raised. We’re all super-comfortable in controversy. My mom’s like, ‘Listen, a lot of really bad stuff happened in my life. You either let that control you or you make the rest of your life great.’”

How To Troubleshoot Your Job Search Problems - Work It Daily

How To Troubleshoot Your Job Search Problems - Work It Daily A job search can feel like a lonely process. It’s definitely not a group activity; and you can’t be very breath taking at a party when you discuss how many applications you've sent. It’s even tougher when you aren’t getting the results you expect and you don’t really know what to do to solve your problem. You also have few people to tap into to help you figure out what’s gone wrong. Solving this problem is more than simply updating your resume again, which isn’t really targeting your actions toward a solution. In order to truly take action that will matter, you have to look at job search as the process it is. As with all processes, it has some inherent characteristics which most job seekers don’t realize. The primary characteristic is it’s a numbers game and every job seeker needs to be tracking their activities to know where the break down in the process is taking place. Once you can see where the break down occurs, you can develop a targeted, well thought out corrective action. Think of this like a car manufacturing assembly line. If the fourth step in the process is observing scratches on the car, you know it has to be taking place after the chassis is put on and before step four. That allows you to go directly to those steps to see what the problem is. Let me demonstrate this in real job search terms. In order to get one job offer, you need about nine interviews. As with all averages, that number is high for some and low for others. For example, sales positions usually require fewer interviews and administrative jobs require more. Sales positions are harder to fill, so when job seekers get to an interview, they will most likely get an offer. It’s supply and demand. Let’s say you’ve interviewed 12 times and have yet to receive an interview. Unless people for your type of job grow on trees, you have a problem in the interview. It has nothing to do with your resume. It also has nothing to do with your job search methods because it’s clearly yielding you interview invitations. Knowing this allows you to target your solutions to the dynamic around the interview. Let me give you a set of targets to keep your eye on and possible solutions if you go “out of range” for the target: Offers Target: 3 offers to get 1 acceptable offer. Problem Threshold: Maximum 5. Possible Solutions: Reevaluate your salary expectations; they may be off for the market and position you are pursuing. Rethink the positions/jobs you are pursuing; they may be wrong for you. Interviews To Yield An Offer Target: 9 interviews to yield 1 offer. Problem Threshold: Maximum 12. Possible Solutions: Practice interviewing skills; you may not be answering the questions well. Reevaluate how you present your assets. Answer the question: “Why You?” Check your attitude and behavior; you may not be coming across as “like-able”/connecting with the decision makers. Check your appearance; dress for success. There is a mismatch in your qualifications that wasn’t detected until interviewing (i.e. “resume drift”). High-Quality Contacts To Yield An Interview Target: This can vary, but you should target 5; then track your results and adjust. Problem Threshold: No more than 8. Possible Solutions: Practice presenting yourself; you aren't presenting yourself or direction well. The contacts aren't that high quality or qualified; they may not able to extend an interview invitation or aren’t in the sphere of influence to the ultimate decision maker. Be clear with your network; you may have been unclear about the type of person to whom you want to be introduced. You might notice you are creating a pyramid of activity: Job you desire = 1 Offers to get that job = 3 Interviews to get 3 offers = 27 High-quality contacts to get 27 interviews = 216 I hope this puts the picture of your job search into a clearer view. It is a numbers game for you just like it is for the businesses. Larger companies track these same types of statistics so they can troubleshoot their hiring process in a similar fashion. Obviously, they track different things, but for them it still all leads to that job offer which someone will accept. Your job search is personal, but it’s still a process. Like all processes, you have to understand each of the working parts and how each part is likely to break down. Then, if you’re paying attention to your process, you can adjust the part that isn’t working. You will be in greater control and feel much more confident with all your job search efforts. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

NYC Employers Can No Longer Ask Your Salary History

NYC Employers Can No Longer Ask Your Salary History This week, a day afterEqual Pay Day, New York City joined the city of Philadelphia and the state of Massachusetts in banning employers from asking about prospective job applicantssalaryhistories.The New York bill was introduced in August of 2016 by New York City Public Advocate Letitia James. James argues that this measure will reduce the gender wage gap. She told theNew York Daily News, Asking for their previous salary information only perpetuates that discrimination. Being underpaid once should elendlage condemn anyone to a lifetime of inequality.In aninterview withMoney, James said that her office found that New York women experienced $5.8 billion a year in lost wages and that she believed it was imperative to put in place policies that could address that type of discrimination, including but not limited to asking whether or not were doing businesses with companies that dont have women on their boards or executive committees and the like.Weve written previously about what thegender wage gapis, and how its one of the most important issues still facing women in the workplace. After all, compensation is still the primary benefit of working in a jobData from Payscaleand other economicresearchshows that women are still being paid less than men for similar work, even controlling for years of experience and education levels. The difference when controlling for these factors may be small (by some estimates, 2-8%), but its still unexplained, which leads many to suspect thatunconscious biasor discrimination is at play.Indeed,gender biasand/or workplace environments that dont helfende hand women may be one of the reasons why women choose different (and generally lower-paying) jobs and professions or industries than men do in the first place.While the law was obviously created with good intentions, it doesnt address every situation. For example, if you work at a company and are applying for another internal position, o bviously your employer already knows your salary history. Therefore, this mainly benefits people who are looking for a new employer -- not just a new role. New York City government employees already benefit from asimilar lawsigned by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio last year. The current law gives employers in the city 180 days to comply. Workers who are asked about salary history can make complaints and offending employers may be subject to fines.Women in certain industries face wider wage gaps than others and may be best poised to benefit if theyreinterviewing for a new job. For example, a large number of women in New York work in the financial services industry, which is not ranked as one of thebest industries for womenwithin the Fairygodboss community. According to Glassdoor datareported by Bloomberg, finance is one of the industries with the widest gender pay gaps (at 6.4%).Even if you dont work in New York City, its heartening to know that similar proposals are being considered in state legislatures across the country. We hope the example of these laws working in a few leading locales will soon help level the playing field more widely across the United States.Fairygodboss is committed to improving the workplace and lives of women.Join us by reviewing your employer

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