Different model: Spend your time doing things you enjoy with people you enjoy. (The Dream!)
Apprenticeship: like capoeira. Learn from the masters through conversations and observation. The essence, that you can't get without being there, spending time with them, having deep conversations, listening. You can't fake it. They can't fake it.
1. Establish personal brand. Give yourself the green light. start today. Build portfolio, either from freelancing or blog or both. Have a voice, a track record. Let people know who they are dealing with.
2. Follow the right companies, brands, sites, and individuals. And make yourself visible to them. Follow on RSS. If the site posts a good article, respond with a good comment that adds value. Once influencers see your name over and over, when you do reach out to them, you're not some random stranger.
3. Create a free work campaign.
Make it valuable free work.
Make it fun as well as useful.
Apprenticeship: like capoeira. Learn from the masters through conversations and observation. The essence, that you can't get without being there, spending time with them, having deep conversations, listening. You can't fake it. They can't fake it.
1. Establish personal brand. Give yourself the green light. start today. Build portfolio, either from freelancing or blog or both. Have a voice, a track record. Let people know who they are dealing with.
2. Follow the right companies, brands, sites, and individuals. And make yourself visible to them. Follow on RSS. If the site posts a good article, respond with a good comment that adds value. Once influencers see your name over and over, when you do reach out to them, you're not some random stranger.
3. Create a free work campaign.
Make it valuable free work.
Make it fun as well as useful.
- Good use of time.
- Geniuine.
- Not necessarily about ROI.
Original post/podcast available here: http://www.tropicalmba.com/apprentice/
Background:
I have been listening to the Tropical MBA podcasts and feel they add great value. However, it is a bit of a pain to listen to a podcast for a number of reasons (time, cheesy intros/outros, inability to understand US accents/slang). Unlike SPI, TMBA does not currently include online transcripts, so I have taken my own notes as I listen to the podcasts (so that I would hopefully not have to listen to them again) and am sharing them here. They are things I find relevant, including my own thoughts that have been triggered from listening in.
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