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5 Changes You Need to Make to Your Resume Right Now

Whether you're actively looking for you next career move or not, it pays to be prepared. But the truth is even some of the top accountants and consultants I know fall short when it comes time to sell themselves. This checklist reveals 5 updates you can do in the next 30 minutes and leapfrog what I'd estimate to be 80-90% of your competition.

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February 18, 2021 by Eric Butts

Some knitting advice that might help you fatten your bank account

My daughter just told me something one of her friends was saying that she thought was funny. It kinda was but it’s also one of those things that will make you go lightbulb when you hear it.

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Filed Under: Career Advice

February 17, 2021 by Eric Butts

What Elon Musk should’ve learned from how Thanos approached handling his business

I saw this quote from Elon Musk the other day where he said CEOs need to spend less time on finance and less time looking at PowerPoint slides.

All that sounds good for the people who are willing to work 80 hours on their company so they don’t have to work 40 hours on someone else’s and all that… but there’s one thing The Great Flamethrower failed to mention…

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Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: elon musk, finance, start-up, thanos

February 15, 2021 by Eric Butts

Here’s an example of why you need to change how you’re doing cold DM pitches

So I was minding my own business, spending a little time on LinkedIn when yet another unsolicited DM lands in my inbox telling how this person helps people like me find more leads. Keep in mind this is the first message I’ve ever gotten from this person…

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Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: LinkedIn, LinkedIn Marketing

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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Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: #linkedinchat, LinkedIn, social media

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

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