Ask Yourself These 20 Questions to Improve Your Self-Awareness

Ask Yourself These 20 Questions to Improve Your Self-Awareness

Truly knowing yourself requires serious effort. But unfortunately, there’s no set path to self-awareness, no standardized steps you can take to reach it. That said, taking some time to examine yourself—your skills, your desires, your motivations—helps. It’s a way to do the work of getting to know yourself better. Talk, talk, talk. With friends, colleagues, mentors,…

How to prioritize SEO keywords for content creation

How to prioritize SEO keywords for content creation

Having thousands of potential keywords worth targeting is overwhelming. Learn how to prioritize keywords when creating SEO content. When it comes to SEO, there is always something to do. It’s easy to get sidetracked by the next shiny thing instead of focusing on the tasks that will move the needle for the business. Having hundreds, thousands,…

Do As Many Of These 6 Things As Possible To Make Your Life Better

Do As Many Of These 6 Things As Possible To Make Your Life Better

There are many things you can do to improve your life and make it better. Here are a few suggestions: Remember, making changes and improving your life can take time and effort, but it’s worth it. Focus on taking small steps every day towards your goals, and be kind to yourself along the way. Also…

Free LinkedIn Learning Courses with Free Certification

Free LinkedIn Learning Courses with Free Certification

For a limited time, LinkedIn Learning is offering more free courses. Here’s a full list, including free certificates. LinkedIn Learning is currently offering 50 new online courses for free until February 28, 2023. These courses are an addition to the already substantial number of courses offered for free on Linkedin Learning. In this Class Central article, we’ve compiled all…

Competitive advantage is always relative

Competitive advantage is always relative

In my work with companies, I often ask managers to talk about their firm’s competitive advantage. Almost always the typical answer goes something like this. We have great products, a great brand. We innovate constantly. Our products exude quality. And we provide excellent customer service. All of this may very well be true. However, not one bit of this answer says anything about the company’s…

Understanding SEO and e-commerce

Understanding SEO and e-commerce

These days, lots of people use search engines for shopping, whether they’re in the early stages of research or they’re ready to buy something right now. Whatever stage of the buying process they’re in, if you sell the products that they’re searching for, you’re going to want to be found. And there are a few different things to consider that are specific to…

First rule of strategy

First rule of strategy

It actually comes back to what I like to think of as the first rule in strategy. You want to pursue opportunities that are big and that you are uniquely positioned to solve for your customers. This is at the center of every great company. Amazon in e-commerce, Disney in building a meaningful connection with characters that you love. Nike in performance apparel. Each of…

How to learn anything – Feynman Technique

How to learn anything – Feynman Technique

The Feynman Technique: The Feynman Technique is a learning method that prioritizes simplicity to build depth of understanding. It takes its name after Richard Feynman—an American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his groundbreaking work in quantum electrodynamics. Richard Feynman was certainly intelligent. But there are a lot of intelligent people…