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College student with questions about launching his own website

by Marquis | Apr 1, 2014 | About this blog, career, Reader comments, recruiting

The email below is from a college Junior that I first met 3 years ago when I visited his campus to deliver a keynote speech. Over the years, I’ve become a friend and mentor to this student and he reaches out to me every now and then with career-related...

Advice on building self-confidence for a college Freshman

by Marquis | Mar 13, 2012 | About Marquis, Business, my motivations, Reader comments, real life stuff, Self-confidence

The email that I’ve posted below is from a college Freshman who attended a keynote presentation that I have a few months ago. I talked about many things in that speech, including the ideas of goal setting and self confidence. When I saw this email, I...

Announcing a helpful site on Project Management and new guidelines for reaching out to me

by Marquis | Nov 2, 2009 | About this blog, other sites, Random categories, Reader comments, reader feedback, Reader follow-up, Uncategorized

Hey, everyone. This is going to be a really quick entry to pass along info on a couple of items…literally, two things: #1. After months of talking about it, I finally made time to create a set of guidelines for readers who email me for advice and perspectives on...

Reader feedback: Pre-MBA Marquis vs. Post-MBA Marquis

by Marquis | Sep 23, 2009 | About Marquis, Reader comments, reader feedback, Reader follow-up

Hey, everyone. As many of my long-time readers know, I’m very open to receiving feedback from my readers about this blog and, at times, I’ll post the feedback in an entry along with my response if it’s relevant. This entry is another example of that....

I guess some readers out there are still checkin’ for The Kid…

by Marquis | Sep 12, 2009 | About Marquis, Reader comments, reader feedback, shout outs to me

Hey there. I’m not going to include much of an intro to this entry because this is more in the category of “things that make me grin” than anything that most of you would consider productive. The email below came in after I mentioned in my Sept 7th...

Suggestion for the site from a reader to introduce a donationware system

by Marquis | Jul 26, 2009 | About this blog, my motivations, Random categories, Reader comments, shout outs to me

What’s going on, everyone. I’d like to start this entry by passing along an interesting article that was posted on BusinessWeek.com a couple of weeks ago. The article is called ‘How to Write an MBA Admissions Essay’ and the author breaks down...
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