Comments on: It’s Really Simple; Be Valuable and You Will Be Valued

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:56:35 +0000

Great article! I have noticed that my potential customers ask questions because they want to find out if I truly know my field or if I am just trying to sell a service and then offer inferior solutions. People with the potential to hire you have common sense, even if they don’t know your field. Become valuable by learning more about your niche than your competition. I love the quote

Quote Left Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.Quote Right
King Jr. Martin Luther

By: Solomon

Solomon — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:41:54 +0000

Hi Aaron,
Great article on improving our value! In my new blog, I was struggling to find my voice: Do I write another article on headline writing or write my beliefs and experiences. I thought I need to share my experiences – shatter some myths in the advertising agencies and professionals I happened to meet here in this part of the world.
I felt advertising scanario has been made out as some artistry or a legacy which is for a few cult like attitudes which is inherently so insecure of new wave of thoughts. Most of the creativity myths are almost made realities here, which I wanted to prove are mere opinions which had no base.
I thank you for this wonderful article; I want you to guide the generations about finding value in them.
Great post!
Solomon

By: Jen Rotman

Jen Rotman — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:21:56 +0000

Aaron,

Bravo on a valuable post I’m going to pay forward right now. It hits home for me as a fairly new Twitter user: I have suddenly tons of followers seemingly out of nowhere and some of them have amassed 10s of thousands of followers themselves. As a professional copywriter I’m asking myself, “Is it about how many people flock to the village as sightseers, or about how many stay and actually connect?” You are who surround yourself with in some cases and if you stuff your “following”….list without any level of judiciousness how the heck are you supposed to see the trees for the forest, the valuable connections and information nuggets that are there, but buried under invaluable connections?
Maybe setting specific social goals and parameters….? I don’t know for sure just yet.
Timely….again, thanks.

By: KeeKee

KeeKee — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:13:54 +0000

This was a great article. Just like you said, there has to be a ’secret sauce’ that gives you or your product value in this ever changing world. Loved it!!!

By: Brian Martin

Brian Martin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:06:38 +0000

Awesome post Aaron! Our generation lives in the most amazing world. We are technologically advanced, connecting continents through web and cheap air travel, and mass communications that allow us to INFLUENCE enormous amounts of people. How does one become an influencer? I think you answer it here:
“Identifying a valuable person is much easier when they are in their own element and not looking for work or otherwise performing. ”
If each of us, took our best qualities and work, bestowed our best efforts to become INNOVATIVE with new ideas and processes, we could become great influencers to those around us. Think of the amazing influence Edison, Ford, or Bell had on our society? If we turned from being just “users” to being “innovators”, could you imagine what would be achieved? Innovation = influence.

By: Amol

Amol — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:55:46 +0000

Great thoughts!!
So does it mean that to be successful , spend more time on improving the stuff you create rather than increasing the number of your followers on social networking sites?
Does it mean that you spend time enhancing your skill set rather than rather than wasting it on social networks?

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:17:09 +0000

My wife was hired and trained by a retail pharmacy to work in their pharmacy. Suddenly, due to budget restraints, whe was not getting any hours! So she took it upons herself to take care of the problem and started going to the other pharmacies within an hour’s drive of home (same chain) and introduced herself to the pharmacists and explained her dilemma, and asked them to give her hours if they needed a “floater” to fill in for their techs when they were short handed. Now she has a pretty full schedule, going from store to store. How about that!

By: Laura Norvig

Laura Norvig — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:55:11 +0000

Well put. Value is much more than just “going through the motions” of building social capital online. If you already are valuable, though, it doesn’t hurt to put yourself out there and have a little visibility online and off with, as you say, a “socially interactive approach.”

By: David

David — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:03:49 +0000

I also agree with you on this. Take the web as an example there are a lot of these make money online bloggers these days who just rabble on about their few dollars they made on AdSense and what not. They are not valued as they are not valuable. I am just starting out for myself and I am kind of using the principle you are talking about here rather than just doing what everyone else in the niche is doing.

By: Barbara Powels Bowen

Barbara Powels Bowen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:03:54 +0000

Excellent article, I agree with you 100% and anyone that reads this article should also benefit from it. It gives great insight, who ever think popularity, stepping on the backs of others will get you to where you want to be, think again and re-read this article.

Excellent!!!!