Have you visited your “Invite and Earn” tab in your Maven profile recently? At Maven, we recognize that our best resource for growth is our own Members, so we provide you with the opportunity to earn Referral Commissions for inviting other great people to join the network. We say this a lot, but it bears repeating: anytime someone you introduced to Maven interacts with one of our Clients during the Read on…
It was with great interest and amusement that we at Maven ran across this item regarding a UK company’s hilarious April Fool’s joke. It seems that Gamestation, an online computer game retailer, inserted language in their Terms & Conditions on April 1st granting the company “a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your [the buyer's] immortal soul.” The term included a Read on…
Imagine you are a Maven Client searching for someone to help you understand an obscure topic- ski lifts, for example. You are trying to learn more about a new ski lift design, and hope to speak with someone who has evaluated the design for a ski resort. You search the Maven network and find several individuals who appear as if they might know something about the topic. Some of
At Maven we receive a substantial amount of feedback from our Members about their experiences with our service. Below are some comments that Members have submitted to us directly or included in invitations they have sent to others to join Maven:
“I was just invited to my first Maven consultation and it fits my experience perfectly. The Maven client wants to talk for approximately 30 minutes about non-proprietary Read on…
Last week we gave you 5 Tips for a Perfect Professional Bio. As a follow-up we thought we’d give you a concrete example of the difference between a well-written Maven Knowledge Summary that follows the guidelines we provided and one that does not. Consider the following Maven:
This Maven is a Senior Vice-President in the cardiac rhythm management department at a leading Read on…
Tags: Knowledge Summary, Member Profile, Professional BioNewsflash: people lie and commit fraud on the internet. We know this might come as a shock to you (wink wink), but there is a lot of inaccurate information and fraudulent activity taking place online. And while things seem to be improving, US and Canadian online retailers still lost $3.3B to fraudulent transactions in 2009! And that doesn’t even take into account what’s happening on the Read on…
Here at Maven we get to see a lot of professional bio’s. Some are great and some are… well… not so great. So how do you make your bio “perfect”? There is not absolute formula or methodology, but here are 5 quick tips that you should follow when writing or editing your Maven bio:
1) THIRD PERSON- A professional-looking bio appears as if it were written by somebody Read on…
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