“Midweek Material” curates articles, podcasts, videos, etc. on a variety of topics including law, marketing/sales, productivity and more.
Science-backed strategies for making changes in your life including the value of pursuing goals in the most fun way, setting bite-sized goals, and more [Podcast]:
When you cross into a new period whether it’s a new week, a new month, a new year, you feel like you are opening a new chapter in your life and you feel a sense of disconnect with the previous chapter. It gives you renewed optimism about what you are capable of because you look back and say, “last year I failed to quit smoking or get my finances in order, but that was the old me and this is the new me and the new me will be different.”
Want To Make Changes To Your Life? There’s A Science To It [Dan Loney, Wharton Business Daily]
The case for investing marketing dollars in Instagram [Video]:
Think Instagram Is Dying? Think Again! [Rimi, HubSpot]
Boiling down key components of successful leadership [Podcast]:
They are constantly coming up with ideas that they don’t actually put out into the marketplace. Or, things that they do put out into the marketplace but that they will pull quickly if they don’t work. They make great products because they also make products that fail spectacularly. It allows them to really push the boundaries.
Guy Raz On What Great Business Leaders Have In Common [Curt Nickisch, HBR IdeaCast]
Successful sales practices including embracing discipline, journaling, and more [Article]:
I don’t believe that there’s any magic combination of words that puts the buyer in a hypnotic trance that makes them sign your contract. And if you do use a combination of words that puts them in a hypnotic trance to sign your contract, they’re going find a way to get out of it.
How Nick Cegelski Sells: Throw Your Ego in the Trash [LinkedIn Sales Solutions]
Andrew T. Daniel 