I’m halfway through Praxis and no lie it’s been a difficult but rewarding journey. The curriculum is only difficult if I don’t adapt to it but so far I’ve been doing great.
However, I occasionally get tired and burnt out. I have to recognize my limits and that I can’t churn out work constantly like a machine. Here’s what I do.
Continue reading Feeling Burnt Out? Try These TipsI’m publicly speaking for the first time and I’m feeling nervous but genuinely excited! The Mises Institute asked me to speak at their Orlando event next Saturday.
I scheduled a call with my advisor who specializes in public speaking and here are some tips he gave me.
Continue reading How to Plan a SpeechMy friend Vance has no idea how to swim and sinks like a rock when he tries to, so he asked me if I could teach him since I work for a swim school.
Vance is a pretty cool guy and he practices MMA as a hobby. He said he wants to learn how to swim not just for survival skills but to “get one step closer to world domination.”
You see, Vance has ambition and in order to achieve his goals, he learns a new skill. Be like Vance. Learning a diverse range of skills makes you smarter and definitely more hireable.
During our swim lesson, I tested Vance on freestyle, backstroke, and back floating. Testing him gives me a good idea of where he’s at right now so he is starting from rock bottom.
Before we tried to learn all the swim strokes, I wanted him to master back floating first because it’s one of the most important survival skills. Noodles and kickboards come in handy when you’re trying to teach an adult how to swim.
Once he gets his back floating down we’ll move on to basic strokes and kicks.
1 Peter 5:10
10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
What does this 1 Peter 5:10 mean? Peter tells us that suffering is inevitable in life but it will end if we’re faithful to Christ.
God promised his followers an eternity free of suffering, especially those who are persecuted for their faith, which is outlined in the chapter of 1 Peter.
Peter explains we cannot expect our salvation (faith to Christ) to eliminate earthly pain. Instead, God will end our suffering forever when we ascend to heaven, making us strong again.
Everything we’ve lost will be restored once we’ve returned home to heaven, and then some.
Those who believe in God will be greatly rewarded.
I created a short tutorial on how to capture inbound leads using HubSpot. I used Remine as an example for the pop-up form.
While I was learning to use HubSpot, I decided to document what I learned and help others by filming a step-by-step tutorial. HubSpot provided an inbound leads certification course, which was included in my account for free. I decided to break down the HubSpot inbound leads lesson and condense it into a short tutorial.
Today I video chatted with Johnny Roccia, my career coach, about value proposition follow-ups and public speaking.
Here’s some notes I took during the call.
Value prop follow-ups
Public speaking
Praxis recently revamped their placement module curriculum, which is the last month of the boot camp and I made a special appearance!
The project I made for Glockstore was featured as an example for operations project ideas. It turns out that almost all of the project examples were done by my class. I have some pretty talented classmates.
For this week’s value proposition, work project, I’m learning Hubspot, a customer relationship management (CRM) software.
Hubspot helps increase sales, marketing, and better customer service all in one place.
My reason for getting certified is many businesses use CRMs like Hubspot, and it’ll make me more hireable.
If you’re interested in earning a certification the link is here. And all the course are free.
Recently, I had an interview with ClosedWon, an AI sales software company but they decided to move on with another candidate.
Rejection is never a pleasant experience but instead of feeling disappointed in myself I’ve taken some steps to find out why I didn’t get hired.
Continue reading Got Rejected? Send a Follow-up EmailLast week I targeted BitPay for a future apprenticeship role. I want to work for them because I believe in their innovative service making crypto payments faster, easier, and cheaper.
I created another value proposition, basically a work project like an elevator pitch that offers a solution for a hurdle that a company is experiencing.
Effective marketing is one of the hurdles that BitPay is experiencing and I found out it’s actually a common obstacle for any cryptocurrency company.
I’ve talked to United Precious Metals Association and Bitcoin.com representatives at LibertyCon and they both said marketing is a common issue among every cryptocurrency. They need to get the word out.
I assume the same goes for BitPay considering how it’s a small niche even within the crypto community. In order to get more sales and people to sign up for a BitPay wallet, there needs to be effective marketing.
Facebook ads are a cost-effective way to spread the word. So I took a look at BitPay’s website and found their main selling points (fast, easy to send and receive money, secure), then made it into ads.
The second half of my value prop focuses on conferences. When I talked to Bitcoin.com, they explained that attending conferences is one of their marketing strategies.
I put together a pitch of my marketing ideas for BitPay.
The presentation slides can be viewed here.
