{"id":333,"date":"2011-05-03T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/positioning\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T10:55:03","slug":"positioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/positioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Positioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know people who are good at positioning for insincere purposes.&#0160; This is probably why the word has a fairly negative connotation.&#0160; But what about positioning for sincere and &quot;right&quot; reasons?<\/p>\n<p>It could be a game-changer for you.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#39;re looking for your next job opportunity or pitching a VC on a great business idea, positioning is vital.&#0160; Consider it the backdrop for your story.&#0160; If your intentions are sincere, then you should want to position the story (compelling and not like the everyone else) for your audience.&#0160; Seems to me it would take the edge off of the&#0160;blues we can tend to experience while pursuing our dreams.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s worth it if you want your life to count.&#0160; Understand this; if you were looking for any employer, any VC, any business partner, then positioning would be a complete waste of time.&#0160; But my guess is you want it to be right.&#0160; The question is whether you&#39;re willing to go through the fire to find what you&#39;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>After the fire, you&#39;ll find the place you were looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know people who are good at positioning for insincere purposes.&#0160; This is probably why the word has a fairly negative connotation.&#0160; But what about positioning for sincere and &quot;right&quot; reasons? It could be a game-changer for you. Whether you&#39;re looking for your next job opportunity or pitching a VC on a great business&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,4,5,6,170],"tags":[1298,23,24,265,954,204,39,1297,1300,1299],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-2","category-coaching","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-learning","category-management","tag-business-positioning","tag-career","tag-dreams","tag-entrepreneurism","tag-job-search","tag-jobs","tag-life","tag-positioning","tag-vcs","tag-venture-capitalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}