Hiring
Give Good Interview: Shotgun Tips
Note: If you like this article, check out Hiring Gold. Interviewing someone for a job is a curious skill. It’s like cleaning a loaded gun. You want to be meticulous about each part or you might accidentally blow your head off. OK, it’s not actually lethal. But it is a multifaceted skill. It’s intuitive in [...]
The best definition of hiring I’ve read (and I’m stealing it)
Hiring: 1. The art of finding the best people to help you push your idea forward. 2. One of the biggest challenges of managing and growing a creative team. (via The 99 Percent) What a great perspective shift from plugging a gap to finding the best advocate for your ideas. It’s much more fun to [...]
Dance Craze or Growth Strategy?: The Wagon Wheel, The All-Day Buffet, The Understudy and The Sherpa
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re amidst a tidal wave of work independence. So many people are defecting and throwing out the rulebook. Just today I read about Marian Schembari, someone I follow on twitter who took out a facebook ad to find a job in publishing. The strategy was so successful that she decided [...]
The Punk Iconoclast Pricing Model for Growing a Deeper Business
Let’s say you run a successful business that depends on a skill you’ve honed over time and become known for. You’re a web designer, PR guru, speechwriter, programmer, copywriter, car mechanic or blacksmith. You’re maxed out. To this point the only clear way to grow revenue (aside from creating a product) is to raise prices [...]
Demystifying the Business of Recruiting, Part 1
The single act of adding a new person to your company will likely be your business’s largest expense as well as its greatest opportunity for making a lot more money. And maybe that’s why it’s a total drag for lots of business owners. There are lots of ways to successfully accomplish adding a new employee [...]
