{"id":2222,"date":"2014-09-30T04:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T17:55:05","slug":"90-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/90-days-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"90 Days and Counting . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/90-days-and-counting\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2233\" src=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/4q1.jpg\" alt=\"4q\" width=\"201\" height=\"134\" \/>The fourth quarter is upon us. \u00a0And, in just 92 days the new year begins. \u00a0Are you ready for a successful final quarter of the year?<\/p>\n<p>Below are<strong> four essential<\/strong> (albeit, a little unglamorous) <strong>tasks<\/strong> to help you improve your personal marketing for fourth quarter and create a solid foundation for a sustainable career in 2015:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Be present in the marketplace.<\/strong>\u00a0 Get out from behind your computer and demonstrate your unique and compelling value\u00a0in the marketplace. \u00a0Connect with others and offer your expertise to a person or organization who needs it.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Know your prospects. \u00a0<\/strong>Are you effectively marketing to those people who need what you offer? \u00a0Who is in your funnel? \u00a0Target 10-15 companies who could use your skills and talents.<\/p>\n<p>3.<strong> Add to your value.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0How will you become more valuable in 2015? \u00a0What skills could you add to your offerings? \u00a0Seek out opportunities to learn new tech skills or productivity tools.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Up-level your image. \u00a0<\/strong>Nothing stays the same. \u00a0Sustaining success means evolving over time. Review your professionalism and self-management skills and pick an item to up-level this quarter. \u00a0Perhaps you could update your business cards or resume?<\/p>\n<p>Consistent focus in these four areas is\u00a0key and easy to achieve by simply adding them to your calendar. \u00a0A year from now you will be glad you invested the time today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth quarter is upon us. \u00a0And, in just 92 days the new year begins. \u00a0Are you ready for a successful final quarter of the year? Below are four essential (albeit, a little unglamorous) tasks to help you improve your personal marketing for fourth quarter and create a solid foundation for a sustainable career in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,22],"tags":[142,5,27],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-career-management","category-personal-branding","tag-career-management","tag-focus","tag-personal-branding-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}