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HOW TO REACH  $1 MILLION 

 IN ANNUAL COMPENSATION AS AN EMPLOYEE

There are lots of people who will tell you how you can hustle and make money as a freelancer (most of those people make their money selling to people who want to make money as freelancers).

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There is less advice on how to accelerate an already promising career. How do you move from making $100,000/year to making $1 million+/year? It's not easy, but there IS a path. But most people on that path have neither the time nor the incentive to share how it is done.

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This is my attempt to make that process more transparent. The document is focused primarily on marketers, but it could work for many business executives. What topics do I discuss? Check out the Table of Contents below. 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. My journey

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2. Why did I write this?

  • Why a good career guide does not yet exist (until now)

  • Opportunity cost

  • Three types of career guides and incentive problem

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3. Which job do you want?

  • Vices and Virtues

  • The problem with “Purpose” (or “Ikigai”)

  • Why Money Matters

  • Money as a signal of responsibility and opportunity

  • Compounding effect of money on your NEXT job

  • How money gives you flexibility and leverage

  • Co-branding yourself

  • Why co-branding your career is better than “Personal Branding”

  • How to co-brand your career and “partner with the best”

  • Breadth not depth

  • Marketing Standards Board

  • Why all jobs become the same job

  • Power of excess capacity

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4. When to switch jobs?

  • Tw0-year rule

  • Be opportunistic and have patience

  • Working with recruiters

  • Two types of recruiters

  • ALWAYS respond

  • Be helpful

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5. Getting the job

  • Deserve the job

  • Solve the problem

  • Do the important work

  • Be a monopoly

  • Earn the job

  • Build the plan

  • You are not a consultant

  • How interviews work

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6. Negotiating the offer

  • The hardest part for a reason

  • Know what you are worth

  • What if you don’t have a job?

  • The change risk premium

  • Rejecting offers

  • Counter offer

  • Negotiating equity

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7. Summary

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