100 People Who Won’t Let You Fail, No Matter What

May 24, 2010

What if you had a century of peers that always had your back? I’m talking about building a small army of “Real Colleagues” that know you intimately and are there to support you whenever the need arises. They are the people that will go out of their way to help you with an introduction, that [...]

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Strengthen Your Web and Get Out of the Way

May 5, 2010

The truly successful networkers that I know meet new people for the sole purpose of adding value to the people they already know. When you meet somebody at a networking event, do you think about how that person can help you, or are you thinking about who in your network might benefit from an introduction [...]

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How to Make Unemployment the Most Productive Time in Your Career

February 22, 2010

When most of us find ourselves in transition we’re like the man in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Here’s the allegory in a nutshell: Imagine a group of people living in a cave lit only by a small fire. Now imagine one of them getting dragged out of that cave and brought out into the [...]

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Should Public Companies Be Afraid of Social Media?

February 1, 2010

Over the past three posts, I have focused on the unprecedented opportunities that social media offers professional stock traders and everyday retail investors. However, social media is also opening new doors for public companies willing to engage with shareholders and create an additional layer of transparency to their investor relations activities. While the vast majority [...]

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100 Best Damn Stock Traders on Twitter

January 4, 2010

People always ask me, “Can I really make money on Twitter?” Usually I answer with a long-winded response about listening first, then starting conversations and so on until I see their eyes gloss over. But when I tell them there are also some very direct ways to start making money—like harvesting free, actionable stock tips [...]

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Wall Street Beware: Top 7 Social Networks for Investors

December 7, 2009

People find online social networks rewarding in different ways. The rewards are usually non-monetary, like keeping up with friends on Facebook, or the satisfaction of writing an authoritative article on Wikipedia. Introducing market norms (aka: you try to overtly pitch yourself to make money) to these socially driven communities is the shortest path to losing [...]

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Is Wall Street Ready for the Social Investor?

November 3, 2009

That’s especially true in the investing world, where millions of retail investors (day traders & other individual investors) are connecting through services like Twitter, SeekingAlpha, StockTwits, SkyGrid and Facebook to give each other advice and exchange investment ideas.

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3 Ways to Get Your Vanilla Networking Emails to Go Viral

October 12, 2009

I get mass emails from my professional network all the time. Most of them are lengthy updates on where somebody is on their job search. I don’t mind getting them and I try to help when I can, but unfortunately I rarely ever feel compelled to forward those messages on to the rest of my [...]

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Will Executives Over 50 Ever Get Social Media?

October 8, 2009

Forbes Insights, in association with Google, surveyed 354 top executives at large (annual sales greater than $1 billion) corporations to understand how they use the Internet to gather information. A clear generational gap emerged, especially when it comes to social media tools like blogs and Twitter. Here are some of the major findings: A generational [...]

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You Have 15 Seconds. Why Should I Hire you?

October 5, 2009

The world is an elevator. That’s especially true for an executive in transition. Every interaction with a fellow executive, potential employer and recruiter is an opportunity to deliver a clear, crisp and compelling elevator pitch that proves you’re a stand out job candidate. But how do you cram an entire career’s worth of work into [...]

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