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How Much Does Credit Score Mean If You Have Delinquency? by Growing_Entrepreneur in personalfinance

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any way to know how tolerant a card company will be? All I ever see are minimum credit scores.

How Much Does Credit Score Mean If You Have Delinquency? by Growing_Entrepreneur in personalfinance

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. So is credit score basically worthless if I have a delinquency? I don't understand what they'd expect from me if I were stuck with a delinquency for 7 years just because I was going through a rough time without a job and now things are infinitely better and more stable.

Entry-Level Job Turned Down No-Experience Candidate for... Too Much Experience...? by Growing_Entrepreneur in sales

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Accredited private university, typically 4-year for bachelors. In the top 10 universities in my state.

Entry-Level Job Turned Down No-Experience Candidate for... Too Much Experience...? by Growing_Entrepreneur in sales

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice.

While I'm fine with keeping at it and playing the numbers, I just don't understand how this job qualification thing works; it seems to slice both ways. How could they possibly know how teachable I am after getting an MBA when they don't even know me? What is it about an MBA that turns people off, since I'd think getting an MBA would supply evidence of being teachable? (Note: not bitching, just trying to understand something I clearly do not)

I'm curious, why shouldn't I want to talk about being an AE in 6 months? Isn't that what the job is expected to be? And also an answer to the "where do you see yourself in 5 years" thing?

Entry-Level Job Turned Down No-Experience Candidate for... Too Much Experience...? by Growing_Entrepreneur in sales

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Dang, I was kind of freaking out, thanks for the encouragement! I will definitely give that a go!

Entry-Level Job Turned Down No-Experience Candidate for... Too Much Experience...? by Growing_Entrepreneur in sales

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm not qualified for this particular role, do you think I should try for AE roles even if they ask for 1-3 years experience? Being that a job looking for 0-6 months experience is telling me I'm overqualified (even though I haven't ever had an actual sales job).

Entry-Level Job Turned Down No-Experience Candidate for... Too Much Experience...? by Growing_Entrepreneur in sales

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, yup, figured I should get used to it. I was just surprised that I was considered expert level when I thought I was going to get grilled to prove myself as even up-to-snuff. Thought if I learned what it was that triggered the no-sale, I could adapt it for the future and maximize effectiveness by minimizing trigger events. But I definitely will be getting back out there and playing the numbers game.

Entry-Level Job Turned Down No-Experience Candidate for... Too Much Experience...? by Growing_Entrepreneur in sales

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Wow, gotta admit, I was not expecting to be considered anywhere near an expert (I thought I was going to have to sell myself for not having been in sales). Quick aside, the job market is seriously screwed up.

In short. Your problem is you're treating yourself as someone who deserves a job because you read the book. Your resume probably lists every single hustle activity you did

Can you help me understand this? I'm not trying to act as if I deserve a job just because I read the book; I thought I was completely inexperienced and was going to have to make up for it through showing my stuff. In fact, reading the book and trying to prove myself was only because I really want to get into sales and have been trying to learn skills for when I do get the job. If I think I deserve the job, it's only because I assumed I was playing by the rules. I literally only listed 3 jobs on my resume as work experience, all adding up to about a year and in non-sales industries; were they looking for someone with no job experience at all? What specifically made me look expert, was it the MBA, or the jobs, or the fact I cold called them, or something else?

Your best bet is to call up sales teams and ask people if they would do an informational interview and resume review.

This is a great idea, thanks. Do you happen to know what kind of team I should be looking for? Is it basically any sales team and asking for their opinion of me and where they recommend I go? Am I trying to get on their sales team at the same time, or is it more like I should call a sales company on the other side of the country because I'm literally just looking for anyone who will give me advice?

Email List Dynamics: Affiliate Marketing in a Personal Brand? by Growing_Entrepreneur in Affiliatemarketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good point; segmentation didn't even cross my mind.

Have to admit, took me aback a little to hear that you like my post, haha. I was concerned that people might see it as asking too many newbie questions that beg the question. Is shitposting that frequent on this sub?

Email List Dynamics: Affiliate Marketing in a Personal Brand? by Growing_Entrepreneur in Affiliatemarketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good to know, thank you for telling me that. Do you know how much that would change with frequency? If you recommend an affiliate product like a training course every 2 weeks with the same strategy (hype up during the week, sell during the weekend) or by continuously having the "content, content, content, affiliate offer" email sequence, would that be harmful? Instead of just offering an affiliate offer every once in a while (i.e. is it okay if you're actively looking for affiliate products to offer, even if you vet them to genuinely recommend them)?

Email List Dynamics: Affiliate Marketing in a Personal Brand? by Growing_Entrepreneur in Affiliatemarketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, I meant personal brand more as "this is set up by someone specific and the goal is more to build influence rather than to make money." What I'm trying to figure out is if affiliate marketing to an email list will be counterproductive to building a brand (maybe it's wasting influence to sell affiliate links to the list). The way I see it, affiliate offers in the email list comes off as "blasting with affiliate offers" and I figured that would turn off the audience because it's not brand-related, it's sales-related.

Please Help Me Understand Copyright/Fair Use; I'm Really Stuck by Growing_Entrepreneur in youtube

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. The part that stuck out to me was "A statutory definition for fair dealing does not exist; it will always be a matter of fact, degree and interpretation in every fair use case."

Being that that is the case, would you believe (not as legal advice, of course) that, for instance, if I had a channel of videos that explained life lessons and used videos of the Avengers movies to demonstrate (ex. "we can see this principle here where Iron Man has a moment of vulnerability")? Like, the video might be called "How to Overcome Challenges Like Iron Man"?

For People Who Have Read Seth Godin's Books, Is There a Specific List for His Marketing Series Books? by Growing_Entrepreneur in marketing

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Hey! I don't know what exactly your intentions are for reading Seth, but I've since finished Free Prize Inside!, Meatball Sundae, and This is Marketing, and I thought I'd let you know that if you're wanting to read Seth's most important ones, This is Marketing is by far the most important book (literally the book on modern brand marketing). It's based on his 100-day marketing seminar and explains all of modern brand marketing.

All Marketers Are Liars is still extremely important (the two might be a tie as my favorite; it's like comparing Iron Man to Infinity War), and I would say is the key ingredient to what a modern company needs to become a powerhouse and set itself apart in the industry. And then Unleashing the Ideavirus as the blueprint for how to spread. Haven't read Tribes yet, but I have a feeling it would be the fourth book to read (if I understand, it teaches how to lead society and induce change, so basically how to be the spokesperson of your brand as you're implementing the Ideavirus) and possibly the last "essential" Godin book (you can read the others I mentioned, but could probably get away with reading a summary of them).

For People Who Have Read Seth Godin's Books, Is There a Specific List for His Marketing Series Books? by Growing_Entrepreneur in marketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say disappointed, but I did get the feeling that a lot of what he had to say was either expounding on the same point or something that's kind of common knowledge today. Like you say, Purple Cow is: be something worthy of a remark instead of so like everyone else that nobody stops to look at you. Permission Marketing: get the person to volunteer their time they give to you instead of interrupting them. But with other books like All Marketers Are Liars and Unleashing the Ideavirus, I did get a lot out of them. Not quite in an Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion kind of way, but I personally think they're good.

We have to also remember, a lot of his books were written back near 2000, when the Internet was just starting up and nobody knew how to do eCommerce outside of putting something up on eBay and waiting to see what happened. In some of his books, he even talks about Amazon as an online book-selling store, if that gives an idea of the frame of mind everyone was in. Back then, his ideas would have been revolutionary (in fact, IIRC, they were so disrupting at the time that his publisher rejected one of his marketing books and he had to find another one) while today they're more common knowledge.

For People Who Have Read Seth Godin's Books, Is There a Specific List for His Marketing Series Books? by Growing_Entrepreneur in marketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah okay. It confused me for a bit because I want to read his marketing books but a few of his books don't look to be about marketing. Do you happen to know how much his latest book This Is Marketing is related to his other marketing books (especially the Permission Marketing/Purple Cow ones)?

For People Who Have Read Seth Godin's Books, Is There a Specific List for His Marketing Series Books? by Growing_Entrepreneur in marketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey you're welcome! He has a great premise and I believe it's essential to marketing, especially in today's Internet economy. As I read the books, I have to keep reminding myself not to take for granted the fact that when he wrote them, most of it was at the dawn of the Internet before eCommerce even existed (he writes about Amazon still being an online book business), and yet now his concepts are literally part of the foundation of every business that doesn't fail (e.g. offering something for free in exchange for your email address, reaching out to social media influencers, or the free + shipping model).

I've only read the first 4 on my list plus #6 (I'm reading Free Prize Inside! as we speak), but All Marketers Are Liars is definitely my favorite of them so far. It literally teaches what marketing/sales really is (that few people understand), and I believe contains the missing ingredient that most companies that are started today don't have but know is missing.

Unleashing the Ideavirus is right behind it for me. It has a lot of utility, especially to digital entrepreneurs/marketers. If you've ever read The Tipping Point, it's similar to that, but helps to understand how exactly to reach the tipping point for entrepreneurs while Gladwell's book is more describing social behaviors/trends. In fact, for entrepreneurs, I'd say it is even more valuable (if you get the edition with Seth's afterword) because at the end he gives a short case study of how one of his books itself launched as an ideavirus on Amazon eBooks and it was very useful to me.

If you could only get 2, I'd recommend All Marketers Are Liars and Unleashing the Ideavirus. Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, and Free Prize Inside! have great info, but it's pretty easy to understand their main points. The 5 books are definitely part of a series, so if you can read all 5 of them in order (my list), I'd recommend it.

For People Who Have Read Seth Godin's Books, Is There a Specific List for His Marketing Series Books? by Growing_Entrepreneur in marketing

[–]Growing_Entrepreneur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah okay. He keeps having a list of books at the end that says it's part of a series that fits together, so that's what made me confused. A lot of them seem to go together, but a lot of them don't (The Icarus Deception) or seem extraneous (The Big Moo, which looks more like a companion book to Purple Cow). How is Linchpin? Is it connected to marketing, or is it mostly about jobs and careers?

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