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October 24, 2020 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

How To Customize A LinkedIn Invite From Your Phone

After writing about people not customizing each LinkedIn invite, I realized some of this may be happening by accident (I can remember doing this myself a while ago). LinkedIn makes it SO easy to fire off invitations to connect in an instant. It practically begs you to do it. In past versions of the mobile app, the default message was your only option if you initiated connections from the mobile app.

The good news is that’s no longer the case, and LinkedIn made customizing invites from the mobile easy. Unfortunately, how to do this isn’t obvious. Once I point it out, you’ll probably be surprised you didn’t notice it before.

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September 16, 2020 by Eric Butts

Weird non-flex but ok

Every time I think i’ve seen it all somebody comes and raises the bar.

I guess that’s a good thing because I might run out of stuff to write about otherwise.

Here’s how it went down:

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Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career advice, career management, career mistakes

July 3, 2020 by Eric Butts

Today’s message is brought to you by middle of the night confusion

I woke up at about 5:30am this morning and I was confused.

My light was on.

Both kids were fast asleep with their lights were on.

Some time between midnight and when I woke up I fell asleep halfway reading the 2nd book in the School for Good and Evil series in my pseudo book club with my daughter.

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Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career management

June 30, 2020 by Eric Butts

This. Is. Sparta!

I have a confession.

Sometimes I secretly pretend to be one of these Spartan soldiers. Then I looked up the workout they did in preparation for this movie…

Some things are left better as dreams…

Now the reason I chose to reference this specific line is because it’s from the movie 300 and guess what…

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June 23, 2020 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Knowing the difference between these two things can be the difference between you thriving vs struggling in your career

When you’re feeling stifled in your career, there’s a good chance you’ve stumbled into this paradox of perception vs reality.

You see, one of the first things you hear when you work in a high performing culture is you have to own your career.

What they don’t tell you is…

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