Becoming a Professional Dating Coach in New York with Nick Sparks

Nick Sparks headshot

We were extremely lucky and honored to recently have social and dating coach Nick Sparks on as the first guest for our show/podcast.

Nick Sparks has coached hundreds of men from across the country and around the world that fly in to work with him in New York on mastering social skills. He has been featured on CNN, and is the Head of Live Training at Sparks of Attraction. Go there immediately if you want to work with him, which you should.

Watch the above video for a fascinating discussion of how Nick became a professional dating coach in New York, and how and why he does what he does.

Your First Website – Part 2

Your First Website

In part one, we talked about why it’s valuable to put up a website: it’s a real skill, you can reach a potentially limitless audience, and you can publish/test any idea you have, whether for-profit or not.

Then we walked through using our favorite get-your-feet wet option, Weebly, and both why their service is great, and why you should not buy a domain (a www.myname.com address) from them. (They overcharge on that by a lot, but everything else is free/inexpensive and excellent.) We’ll talk about getting a domain name (one that you can use for any of these services) for less expensive than what any the big website brands charge in a second.

Let’s talk about the most popular free option right now: WordPress.

Your First Website – Part 1

Your First Website

I learned to build basic websites because we wanted to publish our book about transferring colleges online after the project was dropped by our publisher.

We felt the information was too important to throw away.

Since then, tens of thousands of people have visited and continue to visit our sites each month. The information we put out there has helped a lot of people, and it has given us thousands of dollars of income each month.

I’ve been hooked on the power and scale of the internet ever since, and I think my ability to build websites has been one of the most valuable things I have to offer.

I want to give you the same power. Here’s what learning to build a basic website can do for you:

  1. It’s a real, useful skill – Even local companies have some kind of online presence these days. Want to be hired anywhere? Web skills are in demand.
  2. You can make money doing it – You can use a website to promote your off-line business, or even create a new business from scratch.
  3. It’s a platform to a potentially limitless audience – While it’s not true that everyone in the world will visit your site, it is true that everyone in the world with an internet connection can if they want to, and in a matter of seconds.
  4. You can make your dreams real – Pretty much anything you can think of can be placed online in some form. Do you have an idea you’ve always wanted to try? Want to write a novel? Try blogging it weekly and putting it online for feedback! Do you have a business idea? Put it up! Now!

Let’s start with the out-of-the-box options out there, and their pros and cons. All the services below are free.

Demystifying Postdoctoral Fellowships – Part 1

Demystifying Postdoctoral Fellowships

This is a two-part series demystifying the postdoctoral fellowship.  In this series, Dr. Stella Aslibekyan, a current postdoc in Epidemiology, answers the following questions: What is a postdoc, why do one, and how do you get the best possible postdoc?

Dr. Aslibekyan began her academic and research career at Stanford University where she earned a bachelor’s in Human Biology.  After conducting research at the Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City, she completed a master’s program in Epidemiology at Harvard University.  She then earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Brown University.  She is currently a postdoc fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Department of Epidemiology.  Note that, although she was offered an ultra-competitive postdoc at Harvard, she turned it down to accept her current fellowship, and she is very happy with her decision.  She has published many articles in high-impact, peer-reviewed academic journals, including American Journal of Cardiology.

In this talk, you’ll learn about Dr. Aslibekyan’s academic journey that has brought her to her current post-doc.  She also explains the benefits and purposes of doing a postdoc: to focus on conducting research, write grant applications, and produce publications.

Write and Sell Your Own Ebook – Part 1

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We’re doing a series on writing and selling your own ebook. We (Chris and Lan) have written and published several ebooks ourselves that generate five-figures a year. Here’s one: The Transfer Book.

In this first part, we’re going to go through all the reasons why selling an ebook is often a good idea. We talk about five benefits that we’ve identified:

  1. Passive/scalable income – It’s easy to automate sales so that you can make money in your sleep
  2. Becoming an expert – One of the best ways to become an expert on something is to simply pick what you want to be an expert on and write a book about it.
  3. Helping others – It’s a great way to share life-changing information with people. We talk about some of the amazing emails we get from readers.
  4. Creating something – A lot of people have jobs where they don’t really get to create something from scratch and own it. Here’s your chance.
  5. Learning all the parts of a business – We’ve learned so much creating our own ebooks. You get to see and understand product development, marketing, sales, customer service, everything.