Steven Fies > Quotes

“Brainstorm your big idea(s). (2 hrs) Identify your product, customer, competition, and sales/marketing strategy. (2 hrs) Identify your plan for operations, management, capitalization, and finances. (4 hrs) Create a life plan. (4 hrs) Validate your business idea. (8 hrs) Type up your finished business plan. (4 hrs) Execute and follow through on your plan.”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“afterwards.”
― Steven Fies, Job Interview Tips For Winners: 12 Key Ways To Land The Job

“One way you can practice excellent posture is to use “power poses.” Raising your hands overhead with clenched fists such as a marathon runner might do after winning a race is a great one to try - spread your feet out to shoulder-length distance apart from one another, lift your chin, put a smile on your face, and raise your hands overhead. Now hold this for two full minutes. According to research, this gives you a measurable testosterone boost while decreasing levels of stress hormones in your blood stream.   Once you’re done holding the pose, you will naturally maintain a more confident attitude and better posture for a good twenty or thirty minutes afterwards.”
― Steven Fies, Job Interview Tips For Winners: 12 Key Ways To Land The Job

“Many business school professors will tell you to run surveys – i.e., get out there and ask real people if they would buy your product. One way to do this involves hiring a professional market research company to administer surveys to your target market in order to find out the likelihood that they will buy your product and at what price.”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“Likewise, you can stand on a “virtual” street corner by asking members of online forums what they think of your idea. Reddit.com”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“90% of communication is nonverbal. In fact, the majority of our communication comes through our body language. After this, the next most important factor in communication is our tone of voice. Finally, the words we actually speak only convey about 10% of the overall message we’re sending to someone at any point in time.   For”
― Steven Fies, Job Interview Tips For Winners: 12 Key Ways To Land The Job

“as significant as your written business plan is, your vision and follow-through are twenty times more important.”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“This is actually a big reason most hiring managers want to meet you in person prior to hiring you. It gives them a chance to let their subconscious or “gut” evaluate you beyond the words. It allows them the opportunity to scan and analyze anything that seems shady, out-of-order, or strange.   How”
― Steven Fies, Job Interview Tips For Winners: 12 Key Ways To Land The Job

“you should keep a brisk pace and a brief look into the psychology of perfectionism and assumptive thinking (so you can stay objective and avoid getting caught up in your head and failing to take action).”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“So-called “perfectionists” (not unlike myself!) are the ones who need to be careful.  If this describes you, beware of your tendency to delay things until they’re “perfect.”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“1876, Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the first successful telephone) attempted to sell his patent for the device to Western Union for $100,000. They rejected the offer, claiming the telephone simply “wasn’t capable of transmitting recognizable speech over several miles.” In 1880, the Stevens Institute of Technology publically proclaimed that Thomas Edison’s light bulb would never work. In 1901, Wilbur Wright thought it would be fifty years before we could make airplanes that would fly. It was only two years later in 1903 that he and his brother, Orville, had their first successful flight.”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template

“Current research shows up to 80% of employees are dissatisfied with their jobs. This is bad news for everyone, because it means workers are unhappy and employers are losing productivity.”
― Steven Fies, Job Interview Tips For Winners: 12 Key Ways To Land The Job

“So, what are some great questions to ask your potential employer? Here’s a list of ten questions we’d recommend you ask every time:   What have other employees done to succeed in this position? What is the average rate of job turnover in this position? The company as a whole? What do you most like - and least like - about working for this company? What is your management style, and how will we communicate with each other on a daily basis if I am hired? What training is provided to employees during and after onboarding? Are there any other resources employees are provided with for ongoing development and success? If I am hired, how will my performance be measured and evaluated over time? What specific factors will be looked at most carefully? How”
― Steven Fies, Job Interview Tips For Winners: 12 Key Ways To Land The Job

“exposure treatment principles of behavioral therapy, in which a person’s phobic response gradually extinguishes itself when the subject learns the target stimulus does not produce the harm originally feared.”
― Steven Fies, The Key to Making Money on Craigslist

“In 1926, Lee De Forest himself shot down the idea that television would ever exist, saying, “while theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.”
― Steven Fies, 24-Hour Business Plan Template