Google Alerts – a tool for monitoring mentions This is a very simple and easy-to-use tool that will send reports right to your inbox. If you want to ...
Master reading LinkedIn profiles -- for hires, biz dev, venture capital. It's useful to spend time on the profile to understand people’s backgrounds.
Meetings
Always have a clear meeting wrap up -- ask or propose next steps at the end, whether it is a follow-up email, call, meeting, introduction, more materi ...
Business Development
For business development intros make sure that the person is in the relevant role. Find a few people who could be right, and check their relationship ...
Short Emails
Master the art of the short email -- two to three sentences or paragraphs max. Check how it looks on mobile. If you scroll a lot, it's too long. Use t ...
Checking Email
Do not refresh or check for new messages, or have email opened all the time. It will kill your productivity. Establish specific hours for doing emails ...
Calendar Tips
Create and manage your schedule in a calendar. Use time blocks for different types of calls, meetings, heads-down work and even email, family time and ...
New Tasks
Never add new tasks in front of the queue, add them to the bottom. Complete what you are doing first.
Busy Work
Prioritize and only do what matters. Avoid busy work and going in all directions. Say no to stuff that won’t move the needle.
Association Networking
Networking is something that we all have to do to get business. I am sure you all know that there is an Association for everything. Many of these asso ...
