selling yourself Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/selling-yourself/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:06:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg selling yourself Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/selling-yourself/ 32 32 Communication Breakdown: Why Your Marketing Has to Be Focused https://old.wordsbyapro.com/communication-breakdown-why-your-marketing-has-to-be-focused/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=communication-breakdown-why-your-marketing-has-to-be-focused Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:39:13 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1164 Q: What do landing the perfect job, finding your ideal mate, and winning friends all have in common? A: They all require you to know how to market yourself. Yes, it’s the reason people sweat interviews (and first dates), spend hours drafting cover letters, and even pay others to assemble their résumés — we don’t […]

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]]> Tell Me a Story https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tell-me-a-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tell-me-a-story Tue, 26 May 2015 15:43:47 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1145 I was twenty when the overwhelming urge to head to the Southwest struck. I was a junior in college, living on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, and I was hungry to explore the alien landscape of slickrock and sandstone, to see arches and mesas and unimaginable rock formations with my own eyes. […]

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]]> How Blogging Is Like Skydiving, and Other Misplaced Comparisons https://old.wordsbyapro.com/how-blogging-is-like-skydiving-and-other-misplaced-comparisons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-blogging-is-like-skydiving-and-other-misplaced-comparisons Tue, 05 May 2015 17:25:53 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1130 Disclaimer: I’ve never been skydiving. The first step of blogging, like skydiving, is making the commitment to do it. Once you’ve decided you’re going to skydive, you’ve got to decide on a method for your jump. Are you going in tandem? How about an accelerated free fall? Or should you static line that bad boy? […]

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]]> A Brief History of Advertising, Deception and Why Great Companies Matter https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:14:41 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=967 Advertising, like language, is no modern phenomenon. Today, we’re so overburdened with ads that advertising has garnered a negative connotation. “Ugh, how can we get ads off of Facebook?” or “Why can’t they skip the ads before the movie starts?” are common 21st century woes. But advertising began not as a way of tricking people […]

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]]> https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter/feed/ 1 Happiness Is a Warm Brand Name https://old.wordsbyapro.com/happiness-is-a-warm-brand-name/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happiness-is-a-warm-brand-name Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:43:00 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=844 One of the most internationally ubiquitous weapons, the Russian AK-47, has undergone a little makeover. The assault rifle was developed in the 1940s in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died almost exactly one year ago. Prior to his death, the weapons engineer wrote of his “spiritual pain” in wondering if the AK-47 has […]

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]]> Are digital portfolios pushing résumés to the brink of extinction? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/are-digital-portfolios-pushing-resumes-to-the-brink-of-extinction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-digital-portfolios-pushing-resumes-to-the-brink-of-extinction Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:40:02 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=658 Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that good jobs are hard to find and the competition is stiffer than ever. However, to say that the methods used by companies and potential employees to find one another have changed a tad in the last ten years or so would be a gross understatement. The […]

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