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Be careful when you use the word “easy” to describe other people’s jobs.

I bet you’ve muttered or heard at least one of these suggestions from someone else in your office:

  • “We’ve never had anyone in business development, so there must be a ton of low-hanging fruit she can go after with just a little bit of effort.”
  • “We’ve never done any social media outreach, so imagine how much new traffic” — low-hanging fruit — “we’ll get if we just start tweeting stuff out.”
  • There's plenty of Low-Hanging fruit if we do those interviews.

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Low-Hanging Fruit

By definition, pursuing low-hanging fruit should be a no-brainer for any business. An easy opportunity simply waiting to be seized. Little sweat, all reward!

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No Pain No Gain

Low-hanging fruit is a myth.

Respect the work that you’ve never done before. Remind yourself that other people’s jobs aren’t so simple. Results rarely come without effort. If momentum and experience is on your side, what is hard can masquerade as easy, but never forget that not having done ...

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By definition, pursuing Low-Hanging fruit should be a No-Brainer for any business. But we assume that picking it will be easy only because we’ve never tried to do it before. The idea that you’ll instantly move needles because you’ve never tried to move them until now is, well, Delusional. If you ...

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