Renegade Profile: Olympic Gold Medalist, Joe Jacobi
April 29, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 2 Comments
Today’s Renegade Profile is Joe Jacobi, Olympic Gold Medal winner.
In this interview, you’ll discover:
- How Joe bucked a tradition of family lawyers to chase his dream of being an Olympic whitewater canoeist and kayaker.
- How a surprise move by the Olympic committee helped Joe get his family on board with his vision.
- What it took to win America’s first-ever Olympic Gold Medal in Whitewater Canoe Slalom
- How Joe went renegade and got hyper-creative to discover new ways to fund his training and, eventually, a career on the water
The Real Reason Companies are Terrified of Social Media
April 22, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 24 Comments
I was recently presenting at a conference in NYC, where the following question was asked…
What do you tell employers who are freaked out about their employees developing their own personal brand on social media, instead of the company’s?
Look, I get the tension.
As interactive platforms give employees the ability to build their own reputations and communities and demonstrate value outside the purview of their employers, companies are getting freaked about employees gaining too much “hand.”
Here’s my short answer to companies…GET OVER IT!
If You Can Read This, You’re Not My Client!
April 13, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 8 Comments
Here’s an odd bit of advice coming from me…get offline!
Every week, my in-box is jammed with people offering:
- Webcasts, webinars, teleseminars, simulcasts,
- Tweet chats, facebook events, video seminars,
- Mini-courses, ebooks, podcasts, internet radio, Blog Talk Radio,
- Blog posts, vlog posts, ezines, lifestreams, pipe-dreams, premiums, freemiums, uStreams, iStreams, we all stream for ice-creams,
- Electronic, exotic, erotic, exogenous, extraterrestrial, interactive, proactive, radioactive, radio-controlled, hyper-kinetic, self-actualizing, hybrid on/offline intergalactic symposia…
All in an effort to sell small business owners, private practice owners and solopreneurs some kind of product or service that’ll teach them how to market their businesses online. And, I agree, there are few, if any, businesses that won’t benefit from getting online. But, there’s a big problem…
The Sky’s Falling, You Want an Umbrella or A Bucket?
March 31, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 11 Comments
I’ve been saying it for months. Strike that, years…
There’s no such thing as a one-sided coin…
If something’s going down, something else must be going up. And, for Career Renegades, that means opportunity.
Example #1 – health & Healing
In NYC after 9-11, while many businesses crashed, health and healing businesses soared. I know firsthand, having launched one of those businesses weeks after 9-11. My company not only helped contribute to the process of healing, but built a real, vibrant community and substantial stream of revenue. In fact, it’s now one of the top yoga studios in the Northeast and has served nearly 20,000 students and trained hundreds of teachers.
Career Renegade TV: Making Money Online With the Olsons
March 27, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 1 Comment
And, we’re back with a new episode of Career Renegade TV…
No doubt, it’s fun doing espisodes with well known people, but I wanted to also make sure to include stories of everyday folks who are doing cool things.
So, this episode features Christine and Steve Olson, married parents from Minnesota, who run an online bookselling business (ChristinesBooks.net) and a personal development blog (Steve-Olson.com)…and make real money doing it.
Enjoy…
Unlocking Revenue With Joint Ventures
March 3, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 3 Comments
There is a tremendous opportunity in this economy…
On one side of the aisle, we have people and businesses sitting on assets, trying to figure out how to unlock the cash from those assets. On the other side, we have people and businesses who’ve spent time organizing and growing communities, lists and followings.
It used to be, when times were better and money was flush, both sides would do the work and spend a lot of time and money to create some or all of the what the other side had. The asset holders would advertise. And, the list holders would take their money and use it to keep building their lists. But, now money is tight.
Warren Buffet Feels Like A Mosquito In a Nudist Colony?
March 1, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 5 Comments
There’s no such thing as a one-sided coin…
Yes, there are challenges all around. Yes, the economy has changed. And, that’s meant that the old rules simply don’t apply anymore. The old way we pursue opportunities, paths, needs and solutions have been forever altered.
So, you’ve got two choices…
- Keep banging your head against the wall and trying to figure out how to force a now extinct paradigm to fit a new circumstance…or
- Change what you’re doing.
Career Renegade TV Launches With Gary Vaynerchuck from WineLibraryTV.com
January 19, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 3 Comments
First, we brought you the Career Renegade book (now bestselling job-hunting book on amazon.com). Then we brought you the Renegade Profiles. Now, it’s finally time to launch the next big Career Renegade adventure…
Career Renegade TV is now live!
Our first episode features a totally behind the scenes interview with entrepreneurship, wine, vlogging and social media giant, Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV.com fame. In this nearly one-hour, in-depth interview, we get into…
- How tasting hot asphalt as a little kid led to a career as a wine mogul
- How he mastered a huge body of wine knowledge, even though he hated school
The Power of Being Different in a Down Economy
December 15, 2008 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off
If you own a business of professional practice in this economy, the word of the day is differentiation. That’s part of the message I shared in my guest guest post at SmallBizTrends.com.
Here’s how it begins…
It wasn’t so hard to skate by when all ships were buoyed, when everyone was flush with cash. You didn’t have to work so hard to show you were the best. Or at least better than others. You just had to be good enough to take a big enough piece of the pie to get by.
Not any more (though, honestly, that’s never been my approach anyway).
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- Renegade Profile: Writer Dad, Sean Platt
- Basecamp Renegade: 3 Days That Will Change Everything
- Renegade Profile: Voice Artist Jeffrey Kafer
- When Pain Doesn’t Get You Money
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