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Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Taylor Pearson

haha, funny how that no-to-do list can become the to-do list – me too!

Glad you like the article!

Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Jay Papasan

Well done. Lot of gems here. Certainly lines up with experience. We focus a lot of energy on our “superfans.”

Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Paulo Ribeiro

This blog post is ridiculous, wow. Thanks for such a clear write up.

Because of you (and the yearly planning method you proposed), I’ve put “writing a book” in my 2015 NOT to do list.

And now I think it’s going in the 2016 TO DO list

Cheers

Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Derek Murphy

This is an awesome write up. I think your relationships helped the most, I’m planning ways to start building relationships with other authors in my genre before I launch my next books. Have started running giveaways – have made a list of almost 5000 in a week, but they’re mostly cold traffic. I might be able to use them to push them book up or get reviews, but I’ve got to warm them up first. It will be fun to test things out.

Comment on The First Job Dilemma (Or Welcome to The Hyper-Meritocracy) by Taylor Pearson

Yea, I haven’t addressed people mid-career as much as I should have. Largely because I can’t relate as well.

However, I think it’s a much bigger problem. I have some friends who I really wish would get fired or laid off now when they are young and still have a lot more lifestyle flexibility to adapt than when they are 40 with kids/mortgage/etc.

Comment on The First Job Dilemma (Or Welcome to The Hyper-Meritocracy) by Taylor Pearson

I definitely think it will happen faster than people expect. It certainly is among my friends. Thanks for commenting Zach!

Comment on The First Job Dilemma (Or Welcome to The Hyper-Meritocracy) by Taylor Pearson

That’s super interesting James!

I had not mentioned co-ops primarily because I was ignorant and didn’t know they existed. Do you have any insight/knowledge into how they get established?

Did your university partner with a company? How did that come about?

There was an article recently that said the federal government was considering putting through a 2 billion dollar grant for apprenticeships and I would be super interested if you know more about how that side of it works (or know someone tha...

Comment on The First Job Dilemma (Or Welcome to The Hyper-Meritocracy) by Taylor Pearson

Thanks D! Still pondering over your advice from BKK – as suspected, it was some of the best I got

Comment on The First Job Dilemma (Or Welcome to The Hyper-Meritocracy) by Taylor Pearson

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Comment on The First Job Dilemma (Or Welcome to The Hyper-Meritocracy) by Zach

“One day option 2 will be celebrated as much as option 1”

I was thinking the same. I think the cultural shift could happen sooner than later… especially as more and more 9-to-5ers see friends like Alex with awesome skillsets + lifestyles that stemmed from following option #2.