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5 Actionable Steps to Build Your Media Career 5-Year Plan

Kickstart your long-term strategy with these nitty gritty details on how to get started

Whether you’re just starting out in your career, deep in the freelancing trenches or already at your media dream job, developing a 5-year plan is a bold, take-charge move. With a long-term goal in sight,…

John Lombard

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7 Proven Ways to Be a More Productive Freelance Writer

I recently performed a little efficiency test to make sense of my profit and losses -- the latter of which had been feeling especially heavy lately. I assessed my workload in terms of both money…

Amanda Layman Low

Get More Done With Less Effort: Smart Productivity Tips That Work

How to Maximize Your Workday published on The Executive Education Navigator blog. How can we manage our tasks and responsibilities more quickly and effectively? Personal productivity expert Robert Pozen has made it his mission to…

Laura Montgomery

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3 Simple Changes That Will Instantly Improve Your Workday

As a media professional, it’s a safe bet your day is filled with client meetings, rewrites, scope changes or impending deadlines. And then there’s the whole being-a-thought-provoking-creative-who-pushes-the-bounds-of-digital-media thing. Crazy, right? If this way beyond 9-5 routine…

John Lombard