503: How to Get a Meeting with Anyone with Stu Heinecke
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Stu Heinecke shares unorthodox apattention of strangers.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The simple trick to exceeding a 100% response rate.
2) Do’s and don’ts for composing your personal messages.
3) How to turn executive assistants into allies.
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— ABOUT STU —
Dubbed by the American Marketing Association the “Father of Contact Marketing,” Stu Heinecke is a Wall Street Journal cartoonist, hall of fame-nominated marketer and the bestselling author of How to Get a Meeting with Anyone (2016) and Get the Meeting! (10-2019). Stu is also the founder of Cartoonists.org, a group of WSJ and New Yorker cartoonists who donate their art to help charities raise funds.
• Stu’s book: Get the Meeting!: An Illustrative Contact Marketing Playbook
• Stu’s book: How to Get a Meeting with Anyone: The Untapped Selling Power of Contact Marketing
• Stu’s LinkedIn: Stu Heinecke
• Stu’s editorial cartoon: “Roland! You’re acting like a Democrat!”
• Stu’s website: StuHeinecke.com
• Stu’s podcast: How to Get a Meeting with Anyone
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• Book: Innovators Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton Christensen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 5003 |
| 0:22.0 | with Stu Heinek. |
| 0:23.1 | Stu is sharing how you can get the attention of anyone |
| 0:26.5 | to get the meetings. |
| 0:27.5 | You'll learn one, with a simple trick |
| 0:29.4 | to exceeding a 100% response rate, two, do-asad don't for composing personal messages, and three, how to turn executive |
| 0:37.4 | assistance into allies. |
| 0:39.6 | If you'd like to look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced here. |
| 0:43.6 | You can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash f-503. Now here's stu's story. |
| 0:50.0 | stu has been dubbed by the American Marketing Association as the father of contact marketing. |
| 0:55.8 | Stu Heinek is a Wall Street Journal cartoonist, Hall of Fame nominated marketer, and the |
| 1:00.3 | best-selling author of how to get a meeting with anyone and get the meeting. |
| 1:04.0 | Stu is also the founder of Cartoonists.org, a group of Wall Street Journal and New Yorker Cartoonists |
| 1:09.0 | who donate their art to help charities raise funds. |
| 1:12.1 | Big thanks to Stu for sharing his wisdom with us, |
| 1:14.4 | and big thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:15.6 | Check him out. |
| 1:16.6 | Now, here's Stu. |
| 1:20.6 | Stu. |
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