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Jennifer Dziura Education expert + career and small business coach

Greater New York City Area

Jennifer runs @GetBullish, which provides business and career advice to thousands of Millennial women, specializing in lifestyle businesses and designing unique and multifaceted careers. She runs the annual Bullish Conference (#BullCon14) in Miami. She is also an education author and entrepreneur and has helped thousands of people beat the GMAT, GRE, and more.

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I met Jennifer when we were both teaching workshops at the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston a few years ago. I attended her workshop about how to cultivate multiple income streams, and it was money well spent! Jennifer is funny and engaging, and provides useful information and techniques you can implement immediately. She has a knack for taking complicated concepts and explaining them in a way that's accessible, and is extremely professional. I highly recommend Jen!

Source: LinkedIn Lindsay LaVine Sep 18, 2014

Indispensible to your GRE preparation! Jen takes a very powerful approach to work on all aspects of your test taking which is very helpful if you have an unconventional background. In addition to that her content development is just top league, definitely a step ahead of the test makers...

Source: LinkedIn Vineet Ahluwalia Sep 12, 2014

Jen is a brilliant, original, incisive thinker, who has an uncanny ability to open up a topic in new and endlessly useful ways for her audience. As a speaker, she's warm, engaging, and funny. She's got an Olympian amount of energy, and she always leaves the audience with practical, appealing tips for taking action. Simply put, she is a luminary, and I can't recommend her highly enough.

Source: LinkedIn Megan K. Ahern Sep 12, 2014

Presenting "Hands-on Workshop for Negotiation Prowess" at the inaugural Get Bullish Conference last November was a huge win for me. I facilitated interactive mock negotiation sessions with a dozen of sharp, smart and progressive women by festive hotel pool cabanas of the Surfcomber Hotel. It was a marvelous experience, and I am grateful to the beautiful brains of Jen Dziura who had the ballsy idea for The Bullish Conference, and the gumption to follow through on that ballsy idea.

Source: LinkedIn Ji Eun (Jamie) Lee Sep 12, 2014

The greatest tool for upward mobility in society, I think, is education. Without education I would have been married to 3 wives and farming for a living: I was born and raised in a very remote part of Cameroon West Africa.
I need the GRE to postulate for the life’s dream and passion: securing admission to a PHD program in economics. I have no college Math – undergraduate degree in Marketing- and with no money to enroll for test preparation, my dream was starting to look like a long shot.
On Sunday September 8th, I was lucky enough to find an excellent GRE tutor. I discovered the Mondays with Jen videos by a simple goggle search.
Those videos have made my dream look more within my reach as they demystified the GRE. Jen not only gave me confidence by telling her personal story of getting really good at Math aged 25, she also
made learning exciting by all the funny jokes she told during her FREE online sessions: Only later found out after a goggle search that she is a comedian.
Above all, her insights on how to go about the test or with what mindset to approach each question type – “On each reading comprehension question, you must be able to PROOVE THE ANSWER!”- are takeaways you are unlikely to forget.
I am putting this out there for anyone who is in my situation and isn’t lucky enough to get "Mondays with Jen" when he/she goggles "Help with the GRE"
I can only imagine what it would be like to get help from her in person; I can only imagine....
Thank you Jen! Thank you!
Your student you have and might never meet
Emmanuel

Source: LinkedIn Emmanuel Yimfor Aug 27, 2014

It's impossible to successfully convey the exact, scientific "WHY" Jen was so helpful in a few words. If you are both serious about and willing to put in the effort to best prepare for an exam, and want to know exactly how and why Jen maximizes potential - email me directly at nhgasiorowski@gmail.com and I will happily detail my reasoning.

In short: I think of an exam score as a simple math equation: Style & Amount of effort/study + your natural ability = SCORE. (YES, many more things like hours of sleep, or how stressed you are on test day, etc affect your score - but you can't change those in advance - I'm focusing on that what you CAN change...). You can't change your natural ability, you can only add to it by how you study/practice. Everything else is "fluff". Plenty of "tutors" advertise their success rates, the average scores of pupils, etc etc and none of it matters or is even verifiable. It's easy for a tutor to say their students average 750 on GMAT if they only tutor excellent subjects...but it doesn't help YOU. Jen's passion alone in how she changes the way you approach test problems, timing, study, etc is almost tangible. Add that to her extensive experience and knowledge, and she quickly becomes the best recipe to help you achieve your maximum score. Impacting mentorship is not as simple as it seems. The most brilliant person on earth might be terrible at teaching you how to 'get better', and the most passionate, connecting person on earth might not have any knowledge to impart on you. The combination of BOTH is what makes a tutor successful. I don't believe that "everyone can get an 800" if they simply work hard enough. I certainly cannot. But what Jen did was teach me to utilize every tactic, trick or tidbit of information to help me achieve the best score I possible could. Provided you are also willing to work hard, a successful tutor shouldn't be measured by your test score - he or she should be measured by how helpful he or she is in maximizing YOUR full potential - regardless of score. Email me if you're not convinced. Seriously.

Source: LinkedIn Gasiorowski Nikolai Aug 27, 2014
Jennifer Dziura, Education expert + career and small business coach answered:

If you're good at social media, you really shouldn't need to advertise, so absolutely! (Okay, I'm being a little cheeky, there.)

Of course, you say you don't have much experience. In a field where things change so rapidly anyway, 5 years experience isn't necessarily better than 6 months experience, if the newbie is clever and motivated.

Obviously, learn everything you can about social media marketing. Master Hootsuite. Be able to answer questions like, "How can businesses use Vine?"

If you want to be really clever about this, put up a blog and blog your way through your learning. As you learn about how to sell on Instagram, write a blog post about it (and give credit/links where they're due!)

Transparency won't hurt you here. If I read your blog and saw that you spent the last three months teaching yourself about social media and writing about what you learned, I'd be impressed. I wouldn't care that you didn't know anything three months ago, since I really don't have time to spend three months cramming on this topic; I'd be happy for you to do that for me.

You can start working for real clients by taking on nonprofits and doing social media for them for free. Or a friend's small business, if you want. But ONLY work for free if you get permission to TALK ABOUT IT, share details, use screenshots, etc. And only work for free over a limited time.

For free work: Create a simple written agreement that says what services you'll perform over 6 weeks, or 3 months, or whatnot, and that either party can terminate during that period, and that if the pro bono engagement lasts the entire term, the client will give you a written recommendation (associated with their name and business) that you can use on your website and on LinkedIn, and you can use any other details.

At the end of the free period, the client would then have the option to continue working with you for a monthly retainer if they choose to do so; if not, you'll leave them with a short manual on how do maintain their own social media.

Also keep in mind that, in order to sell expertise, you often only need to be about two levels above who you're selling to. Social media for a major corporation may involve detailed analytics and a video production team. Social media for a church down the block may involve starting a Twitter account, explaining what Twitter is, establishing a few hashtags and getting the word out to members, and suggesting the types of things a church might want to tweet.

Boom, now you have a social media agency.

Jennifer Dziura, Education expert + career and small business coach answered:

If you're researching because you're thinking about risking a lot of money, then research everything. But if you just want to know which rice cooker to buy, open the first three search results in different tabs, read what you find, and ask yourself if you have enough information. You probably do, and are just suffering from personal indecision.

For more on this idea ("just enough" information), google "satisficing." For some things, I'd rather spend 5 minutes for 80% of the information than three hours for 90% of the information.

Jennifer Dziura, Education expert + career and small business coach answered:

The easiest way to do that is to become trusted by wealthy people. Wealthy people often pay well for services that nearly anyone could do. However, the wealthy don't hire off of Craigslist -- rather, they tend to use personal referrals.

A business you start by providing a service could ultimately scale when you hire other service providers, provide a software solution to scheduling service providers, or find a way to turn a service into a product.

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