Welcome to ThriveYard – The Place for In-Depth Career Success Resources.
1. Welcome Message From The Founder + Your Free Gift
Thank you for visiting ThriveYard.com – a career website that provides in-depth Career Success Resources including blog articles, infographics, videos and slide presentations. I am honored and glad that you came here.
I am passionate about this website and my joy comes from not only providing resources to help someone find a job that they love, but also offering detailed resources to help you succeed in your career.
All the resources on this website are written with great love.
Welcome to ThriveYard and may you Flourish, Prosper and Succeed in your career.
Thank you.
With Warmest Regards,
Duncan Muguku
Founder @ ThriveYard.com
PS: Download your free gift here –
Freshly Squeezed Quotes: 200 Fresh Motivational and Inspirational Quotes
2. Mission
To provide in-depth career advice articles, videos, slides, courses and infographics to help job-seekers find jobs and job-holders grow and succeed in their careers.
3. Vision
To passionately contribute in improving the personal and professional development for millions of professionals worldwide.
4. Tagline
The Place for In-Depth Career Success Resources.
Flourish | Prosper | Succeed
5. Meet The Founder
Duncan Muguku
Founder, ThriveYard
Duncan as a baby
Duncan Muguku is the Founder of ThriveYard.com. As a one-man army, so far, the title “Founder” here simply means the person who juggles multiple roles to keep the company running until such a time when it can afford to hire employees.
Duncan’s roles include writing in-depth blog articles, designing website framework, preparing slides, infographics drafts, video concepts, working with freelance graphic designers and website developer, maintaining website, writing eBooks, social media management, marketing, sales, accounting, developing training courses etc.
Duncan is a proud husband to a loving wife and proud father of two children. His interests and hobbies include Dreaming Big; Business; Budgeting; Research; Planning Events; Writing Reports; Blogging; Watching Movies; Cooking; Playing Chess; Photography and the Stock Market.
His professional background is in Project Administration, Program Management, Contracts Management, Proposal Budget Development, Procurement Management and Grants Management experience. He has worked in various nonprofit organizations and holds an MBA in Strategic Management.
Duncan has under his belt a string of five failed businesses that didn’t take off:
- A research consultancy firm in 2002 (Worldwide Research Consultancy)
- An online business listing website in 2003 (AdnetKenya.com)
- A niche website for weekend part-time jobs in 2014 (WeekendParttimeJobs.com)
- An online job-board for weekday part-time jobs in 2014 (WeekdayParttimeJobs.com), and
- A niche search engine for Animal print items in 2015 (AnimalPrintWorld.com).
Despite these failures, Duncan still has a burning desire to succeed in business – it is his lifelong dream.
He founded ThriveYard.com in August 2016 which is a website for providing in-depth career success resources including detailed blog articles, infographics, videos and slide presentations as well as providing online training courses on career success in the future.
Duncan is passionate about helping people succeed in their careers. In the past years he has helped friends and acquaintances to develop resumes and helped with tips on how to find jobs.
Duncan has written two eBooks – Starting Strong, Finishing Strong and Freshly Squeezed Quotes.
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6. EBooks By Duncan
Purchase your EBook that has all of our best career success articles in one volume.
Starting Strong, Finishing Strong
YOUR CAREER SUCCESS HANDBOOK
From Resumes to Interviews to Job Promotions to Resignations and Everything in Between
Download your Free EBook that has original Motivational and Inspirational Quotes.
(No email sign-up required)
FRESHLY SQUEEZED QUOTES
200 Fresh Motivational and Inspirational Quotes
Below is a preview of ThriveYard’s next EBook
A PEP TALK FOR NEW MANAGERS
145 Building Blocks For How To Be A Good First-Time Manager
7. A Peek Into The Lovely Little Office
Small Beginnings: Duncan lovingly and passionately runs ThriveYard, proudly working part-time from a 13.89 sq. ft. (50 in x 40 in) space in the corner of his basement. The motto is dream big and start small. Here is a visual of what 13.89 sq. ft. looks like – enough space to comfortably fit one desk and a chair.
8. Meet The Team
This section is reserved for future team members such as Instructors, Course Developers etc. I can’t wait to meet them. As John C. Maxwell put it – “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
9. How Did The Business Idea Start?
It’s a long and insightful story ……. I worked in nonprofit organizations for 10 years in various capacities including grants management, program management and project administration before resigning from a well-paying job that I loved so much to pursue my lifelong dream of running my own businesses.
The original idea was conceived as Dream Spring Group, a parent company for a number of niche websites to help people find Weekend Part-time Jobs, Weekday Part-time Jobs and a search engine concept exclusively for Animal Print items.
After working on the part-time jobs websites for almost two years (working both part-time and later full-time) and encountering an uphill battle of creating two-sided markets, it became apparent that the chief bottleneck was trying to do too many businesses at once.
The part-time jobs websites had 2 blogs focused on Personal and Professional Development articles. This was the only silver lining and had started to get traction with 30k views for 41 blog articles over a one and half year period.
Upon further analysis, it emerged that seven in-depth blog articles of 1,500 words or more had accounted for 32% of total blog views. The in-depth articles outperformed the short blog posts of 100-900 words.
I also immensely enjoyed the challenge of writing the in-depth articles and was excited to see that they were offering value to people.
Spin-off
I learnt from my failure and decided to re-focus, scale down, concentrate on one business in a narrow niche and over time slowly build a strong and sustainable company. I closed down Dream Spring and founded ThriveYard in August 2016 as a spin-off business from the earlier Personal and Professional Development blogs and work on improving this business component.
About Us
ThriveYard.com focuses on offering in-depth articles that comprehensively address career growth and personal growth topics.
We not only provide detailed blog articles, but also go a step further and supplement the articles with infographics, videos, slide presentations and motivational quotes.
Also future offerings include online training courses on career success.
ThriveYard is headquartered in Burtonsville, Maryland, USA
10. ThriveYard’s Awards
ThriveYard is an award-winning career advice website. You can view ThriveYard’s Awards here.
11. List of Career Success Articles
For your convenience, each article has a table of contents to help you easily scan/skim the information you need. Enjoy reading these articles.
B. COVER LETTERS
D. JOB PROMOTION
E. CAREER ADVICE
- 39 Ways to Increase Your Productivity at Work
- 20 Tips on How to Prioritize Work and Meet Deadlines
- 22 Exciting Ways to be Successful at Your Job
- 17 Tips on How to Take Initiative at Work
- 30 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Boss
- 25 Tips on How to be Proactive at Work
- 23 Tips on How to Delegate Work Effectively
- 20 Tips on How to Set Goals at Work
- 35 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Skills at Work
- 31 Tips on How to Give and Receive Feedback at Work
- 15 Qualities of a Good Boss
- 16 Ways to Make a Good First Impression
- 32 Simple Ways to Manage Email Effectively
- 15 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking
- 27 Tips on How to Resign From Your Job Gracefully
- 19 Ways to Improve Your Problem Solving Skills at Work
- 15 Tips on How to Manage Conflict at Work
- 100 Helpful Career Blogs and Websites for Jobseekers and Jobholders
F. PERSONAL GROWTH
- 33 Easy Ways on How to Dream Big
- 75 Tips for Well-Being and Happiness in Life and at Work
- 21 Ways to Stand Out in Life and at Work
- The Positive Side of Fear: 15 Benefits of Fear
- 2 In-Depth Tips on Defining Your Success and Pursuing Your Dreams
- 7 Tips for Creating a Clear Vision for Your Life
- 8 Tips on the Power of Small Steps and Taking Action
- 9 Tips on How to Persevere in Order to Succeed
- 365 Daily Tips for Self-Improvement
- 55 Tips on How to be Successful in Life
G. ARTICLES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- 15 Tips on How to Deal With Change at Work
- 11 Tips on How to Prepare for Your Performance Review
- 19 Tips on How to Stay Focused at Work
- 100 Tips on How to Plan and Run Meetings Successfully: A Handy Meeting Guide
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