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Do what matters most

The book Accomplishing More by Doing Less by Marc Lesser is a collection of tools as well as a manual for doing more of what is important and less of what isn’t. It’s a great book and it made me think of what matters when it comes to my blogs.
I love to write but [...]

Mission statement, visualization and pitch

Jason at JibberJobber posted about The Visualization – Where Will You Be? and Career Management Visualization – an example.
I hate your job has an interesting post about Personal Mission Statements: Way Cool where it says something well worth to remember and consider:
Do you realize that the average person spends more time planning a vacation than [...]

Hook, line and sinker

Over at Freelance Folder is a useful post titled Is Your Elevator Pitch a Home Run?.
Your elevator pitch is your 30-second marketing strategy. You need it to tell people on the fly at any given moment who you are, what you do, and help win them over – or at the very least, gets them [...]

XING acquires big Spanish network

OPEN Business Club AG (the company behind XING) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking. Neurona has more than 830,000 membes and is the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America.
At the OpenBC blog it says Our dedication for the Spanish Market rises: Neurona joins XING.
Following our first acquisition [...]

An open letter to LinkedIn

Vincent Wright has posted An Open Letter To Linkedin. The letter starts like this:
We’re confused. Some of us are downright dismayed. Even some renown evangelists among us have stopped evangelizing. And others are watching to determine whether or not they should continue evangelizing. Still others of us are intensely looking at other networking platforms [...]

Twitter

I have joined Twitter but can not really make up my mind about the service. Twitter is a kind of micro-blog, each message is maximum 140 characters. You can follow what your friends at Twitter post about and it is a quick and easy way to communicate.
Jason Alba has a post titled Twitter – Effective [...]

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Forty Plus Two is about coaching and personal development. Related topics are networking, business, job and career.
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The site name is a game around The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything, 40 + 2 = 42.
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My name is Bengt, I live and work in the southern [...]

Elevator pitch – Networking pitch

It is often called an elevator pitch but is just as useful as your introduction to people you meet at networking events. There are different views on how long the pitch shall be, 15-30 seconds or up to a minute. In my opinion, short is better.
An “elevator pitch” is a quick and concise way to [...]