Comments on: Expanding Your Network: Sharing Your Passions http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/ Building Intimate Business Relationships Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:20:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan Stephens Marketing » Ryan Stephens Marketing: Six Months in Review http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-1541 Ryan Stephens Marketing » Ryan Stephens Marketing: Six Months in Review Sun, 03 May 2009 15:03:39 +0000 http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/#comment-1541 [...] Expanding Your Network: Sharing Your Passions Another relatively popular post. This blurb says it best: “…use it to meet new people that are passionate about marketing and cultivating new and intriguing ideas that have the potential to alter the pendulum of momentum in marketing, to unabashedly flip the script on current marketing viewpoints. Expanding your network with people that share your passions transforms the work you do from tedious and mundane to more of a contagious and indirect repercussion of the way you operate and live your life.” [...] [...] Expanding Your Network: Sharing Your Passions Another relatively popular post. This blurb says it best: “…use it to meet new people that are passionate about marketing and cultivating new and intriguing ideas that have the potential to alter the pendulum of momentum in marketing, to unabashedly flip the script on current marketing viewpoints. Expanding your network with people that share your passions transforms the work you do from tedious and mundane to more of a contagious and indirect repercussion of the way you operate and live your life.” [...]

]]> By: Yifei Zhang http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Yifei Zhang Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:23:53 +0000 http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/#comment-175 Hey Ryan, I actually just came across your blog via Richard - it's fantastic to meet other talented and accomplished applicants. Just droppin' by to wish you the best. If all works out, we'll all be seeing each other in NY soon enough. :) Cheers, Yifei Hey Ryan,

I actually just came across your blog via Richard – it’s fantastic to meet other talented and accomplished applicants.

Just droppin’ by to wish you the best. If all works out, we’ll all be seeing each other in NY soon enough. :)

Cheers,
Yifei

]]> By: Richard Millington http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Richard Millington Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:03:15 +0000 http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/#comment-174 heh, I would, but I can't think of anything secretive enough to say off the record. heh, I would, but I can’t think of anything secretive enough to say off the record.

]]> By: Brandon http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Brandon Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:50:50 +0000 http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/#comment-173 It's funny that you said approaching him as a group...I thought about proposing doing the same thing with our social media crew (you, Richard, Sebastian, and myself). I'm also trying to come up with a creative way to present all the info about me. I want it to represent me well and be compelling, yet in as concise a manner as possible. It is pretty cool to know if nothing else our efforts weren't wasted because we can chat and spring ideas off one another. Shoot me an email if you want to talk more off the record. It’s funny that you said approaching him as a group…I thought about proposing doing the same thing with our social media crew (you, Richard, Sebastian, and myself). I’m also trying to come up with a creative way to present all the info about me. I want it to represent me well and be compelling, yet in as concise a manner as possible.

It is pretty cool to know if nothing else our efforts weren’t wasted because we can chat and spring ideas off one another. Shoot me an email if you want to talk more off the record.

]]> By: Richard Millington http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Richard Millington Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:16:54 +0000 http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/#comment-172 I was actually a little dubious about whether Seth had the time to go through countless pdf applications and then scan the applicant's blog/lens/youtube videos. But i've taken his comment on Brandon's blog as a good sign. It's tough to be exceptional amongst a group of exceptional people. In theory, the most exceptional, the most remarkable should jump out somehow. In practice we're looking for ways beyond the application to demonstrate that we are those remarkable candidates (it's different from a CV). I dabbled with a few ideas, but didn't follow through due to the short time-frame. Amongst them was finding a few other people interested in the internships, bonding over the internet - perhaps setting up a quasi-project to achieve, and then approaching Seth as a group to pick. Likewise I considered buying a bulk load of the Seth Godin toys and selling out, but that's too difficult to prove. As for the application form, i've considered a wide variety of approaches, comic strips, embedded videos, massive pages (hey, he just said 4 pages!), stories, and plenty more. How are you guys finding it? No need to go into specifics, I wont :-) It would be great to work on something sometime. I was actually a little dubious about whether Seth had the time to go through countless pdf applications and then scan the applicant’s blog/lens/youtube videos.

But i’ve taken his comment on Brandon’s blog as a good sign.

It’s tough to be exceptional amongst a group of exceptional people. In theory, the most exceptional, the most remarkable should jump out somehow. In practice we’re looking for ways beyond the application to demonstrate that we are those remarkable candidates (it’s different from a CV).

I dabbled with a few ideas, but didn’t follow through due to the short time-frame. Amongst them was finding a few other people interested in the internships, bonding over the internet – perhaps setting up a quasi-project to achieve, and then approaching Seth as a group to pick. Likewise I considered buying a bulk load of the Seth Godin toys and selling out, but that’s too difficult to prove.

As for the application form, i’ve considered a wide variety of approaches, comic strips, embedded videos, massive pages (hey, he just said 4 pages!), stories, and plenty more. How are you guys finding it? No need to go into specifics, I wont :-)

It would be great to work on something sometime.

]]> By: Brandon http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Brandon Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:34:11 +0000 http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/expanding-your-network-sharing-your-passions/#comment-171 Ryan, how's it going? Brandon from sethsfavoriteintern.com here. Great post. I like what both you and Rich said about teaming up to bounce ideas off one another (aka mastermind group). It's obvious we're all on the same wavelength and whether or not we are lucky enough to be an intern for Seth Godin remains to be seen. We should get something going. Send me not if you have a chance. Ryan, how’s it going? Brandon from sethsfavoriteintern.com here. Great post. I like what both you and Rich said about teaming up to bounce ideas off one another (aka mastermind group). It’s obvious we’re all on the same wavelength and whether or not we are lucky enough to be an intern for Seth Godin remains to be seen. We should get something going. Send me not if you have a chance.

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