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Cultivating Relationships

Makers of Sport Podcast #63

January 18, 2016
Cultivating Relationships

The world is about relationships. Plain and simple. We have relationships with family, friends and even objects.

In our professional lives, building relationships are vital for growth both fiscally and skill-wise. In today's Halftime, I discuss why cultivating relationships over time is extremely important and why the "hard sell" is a downfall of creatives in the digital economy.

When a farmer plants a seed, he never knows which ones will sprout and grow. But he knows that if he plants no seeds, he will have nothing. We should approach business relationships in this same manner.

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My next guest is going to be Ben Osborne. Ben is the Editor-in-Chief of SLAM Magazine, a longstanding basketball publication that has cemented itself in basketball and hip-hop culture since the early 90s.

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