Behance Blog | The Most Defensible Thing You Can Do for Your Career: Build an Audience
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Behance Blog | The Most Defensible Thing You Can Do for Your Career: Build an Audience
If you cannot gain exposure at your day job, try to get some exposure outside of it. Network actively. You don't have to have an audience of thousands for an audience to be worthwhile -- for landing a new job, having an audience of one hiring manager is a darn sight better than having no audience at all. Blog and collect an email list. It's old and... See more
kalzumeus • Don't End The Week With Nothing
Keely Adler added
One lesson learned building Behance to a community of 35M+ highly opinionated creative people: you don’t own a network, you are the steward of a network.
Scott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications
sari added
In many societies, one’s professional fate is decided by the tribe, the family. However, one is increasingly thrown back into ‘How can I develop my own voice and niche from where I can operate’? Is there something like an individual signature? Perhaps not, but I do believe in skills, in small steps, working on various projects at the same time with... See more
Jess Henderson • Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink —
Building in public:-Creates a narrative that an audience can follow & get behind-Builds trust: both internally (at the company) and externally (to an audience).-Builds your status as an expert in a specific field.-Invites immediate feedback from users following your journey.-Attracts talent to your company. There are many recent case studies of... See more
Gaby Goldberg • The Building in Public How-To Guide
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Instead of trying to build an audience...
Build an association with a specific word or idea.
• James Clear: Habits
• Dan Runcie: Business x Hip Hop
• Codie Sanchez: Boring businesses
• Nick Huber: Sweaty startups
• David Perell: Personal Monopoly
• Wes Kao: Spiky Point Of View
When you are associated with a specific word, phrase, idea, or movement, that co... See more
Build an association with a specific word or idea.
• James Clear: Habits
• Dan Runcie: Business x Hip Hop
• Codie Sanchez: Boring businesses
• Nick Huber: Sweaty startups
• David Perell: Personal Monopoly
• Wes Kao: Spiky Point Of View
When you are associated with a specific word, phrase, idea, or movement, that co... See more
Jay Clouse • Tweet
Brandy Cerne added
sari and added
When it comes to network building, most people make the mistake of focusing on brand awareness, instead of expertise. They focus too much on the “legible” side of things, rather than knowledge and skills.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
Keely Adler added
Our narrative was that technology needed to empower creative people to make ideas happen. By uploading their portfolios, creatives could get more exposure and attribution for their work, resulting in more job opportunities. We called it “creative meritocracy,” the idea of creative people getting opportunity based on the quality of their work rather
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