Ellie Mirman's Startup Marketing Blog

I was surprised to find that, in this leadership interview with VMWare CEO Paul Maritz, he cites "self-awareness" as a key quality when hiring employees. He shares that his favorite question to ask in an interview is, taking a project they've done in the past, "Thinking about it now, what would you have done differently? What did you learn from that?" If the answer ends with a lot of blame placed on someone else, for example, you can conclude that the person didn't learn much from the project and that they're not very self-aware.

Topics: work life, blogging

I won't even attempt to deny I'm not a marketing geek. One of the things I loved about Kyle James' blog post "Jokes: 36 Reasons You Might be Addicted to Social Media" was "#6: You own the Google search results for your name." That definitely held true for me.

Topics: fun world of marketing, social media, fun, seo, branding, blogging

Topics: work life, social media, video, branding, job search, blogging

Topics: social media, blogging

HubSpot is in the process of yet another office move (same building, different floor), so today all of us are working from home. It's my first real taste of what it would be like to work from home full-time.

Topics: work life, social media, twitter, blogging

In school, I think you're taught to write the body of a paper first and then go back and write the introduction and title. I could never do that. I needed to write the title first, and then the introduction, to frame my thoughts and prepare myself for writing the rest of the paper.

Topics: books, blogging

Topics: family, blogging

I've officially been tagged in my first (correction: sixth - see below) photo meme by Mike Volpe.

Topics: fun world of marketing, social media, travel, blogging

Topics: blogging

Topics: fun, blogging