Josh Steimle: Speaker, Writer, Entrepreneur

10 Lessons From Stephen King On Writing

I have a thing about finishing books I start. The first book I ever started, but didn’t finish, was a book by Stephen King. I wasn’t that into the horror genre to begin with, and I found this particular book disgusting and repellant. It just wasn’t my thing. It also tainted how I felt about
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How To Find Your Ideal Audience

If you read my post about a Dream Funnel you now have a clear vision of your future. If you read my post about a genius zone, you know what makes you uniquely suited to turn that vision into reality. The next question is: Who do you need to influence in order to achieve your
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How To Find Your Genius Zone

I have a friend we’ll call Jeff. Jeff is a smart guy with a lot of talents. He’s started multiple seven-figure businesses. He could be a professional artist if he wanted to. He could do just about anything. And that’s why he was broke. Jeff and I trade coaching services. One our monthly calls
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How do you optimize your LinkedIn profile for internships and job searches when you’re still in college or have just graduated?

This question was asked on Quora: “How do you optimize your LinkedIn profile for internships and job searches when you’re still in college or have just graduated?” My answer: I use The 7 Systems of Influence framework to work through questions like this. Vision: What do you want? That’s pretty straightforward, you want an internship
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Everything I Know About LinkedIn Success

Perhaps you’re expecting a long read, after all, I just wrote a book on how to succeed on LinkedIn, so this post must include everything in that book, plus more, right? Instead, I can sum up everything I’ve ever learned about how to succeed on LinkedIn in a single word: Serve. If you want
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All The Marketing Hacks For My Book Crowdfunding Campaign

Note: This campaign is running May 15th through June 15th, 2019, so if you’re reading this between those dates then this blog post isn’t done yet, I’m still adding to it, and I’d love your suggestions! In this post I share everything I did to get the crowdfunding campaign for my new book 60 Days
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My DoorDash Customer Service Experience

Hi Tony, thanks for responding on Twitter. Some quick feedback on my experience as a new customer. Just want to be helpful, I hate to see good companies held back by things that are so easy to fix. My tone here is friendly/helpful, I’m not frustrated or angry or anything, it’s more me wanting
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All Influential People Have A Dream Funnel. What’s Yours Look Like?

You probably have at least a rough idea of what you want your future to look like. College, job, marriage, family, start a business, travel, grandkids, retirement, write a book, etc. You might even have a few dreams you think about all the time. Things you want to have, do, or become. What many of us
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LinkedIn Quick Tip: Use Your Banner

Your banner is that big horizontal space behind your profile photo. If you haven’t uploaded anything, it’s a default blue design, like this: Except without the sad emoji face, I added that. You may have thought about using that space before and then thought “Bah, I’m not a designer, and who cares what I
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Personal Branding Is B2B Marketing

Last week I spoke at a marketing conference and afterward a woman came up to express her frustration. “I know it’s not your fault,” she started, “But the descriptions weren’t clear and the program said you were going to talk about marketing on LinkedIn, and I thought you were going to talk about B2B marketing
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