How to earn 5,000€ a month from your website. (pt. 1)

September 15, 2011

Short-term goal #1: Determine your business model
The planning phase is the most important phase of the whole process.  Even if you don’t consider yourself entrepreneurial, if you don’t plan everything concerning your website in advance, you will make mistakes that will cost you a lot of time and frustration!

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If you really wanted a promotion, you would work off the clock.

August 27, 2011

“If you really wanted a promotion…”
“If you really want to keep your job…”
“If you really cared about your career…”
“If you really wanted a work visa…”
“If you really loved me…”

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Coldreading - the job interview setup.

July 28, 2011

1. The Set-up
Prior to your job interview, your Curriculum Vitae and your cover letter will lay the ground work for establishing yourself as a respected, accredited, experienced, and well-networked individual.

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Verbal attack-proofing your image.

July 19, 2011

Aggression is physical and/or verbal behavior by one person intended to cause pain or harm to another. Modern society has laws against physical aggression. “We spend enormous sums on law enforcement, on jails and prisons, on the legal system and the courts, on security, on insurance, on preventing and dealing with domestic violence…” (A)

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The optimal expatriate psychological profile - Analytical.

July 12, 2011

The analytical part of your brain asks the important questions ‘why’, ‘how’, and ‘where’s the proof to back your claim up?”.

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The ‘elevator pitch’

May 19, 2011

You’ll find this information useful in helping you network with the aim of finding employment, clients, sponsors, girlfriends, etc.
The following is our compact summary of The Jelly Effect – How to make your communication stick. (pages 61-68;96) divided into 3 steps:

1. State 1 AFTER
2. Explain need for your service, restate AFTER
3. Give an example

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Anatomy of a job interview - Image (D)

May 18, 2011

Understanding your image
“How you are perceived by other organization members is fundamentally important to you because in many instances this perception will determine the way they interact with you.” (page 5)

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