Personal Branding Interview: Pamela Slim
Today, I spoke with Pamela Slim, who is the author of Escape From Cubicle Nation, a book that just came out today, which is also the name of her blog. In this interview, she discusses a lot of interesting aspects of entrepreneurship. She talks about how not everyone can be an entrepreneur, how entrepreneurship has …
Can’t Afford the Time to Network?
As I’ve been developing new programs for my business, I’ve focused more and more on asking people to spell out their biggest networking challenge. The responses I’ve gotten back have been eye-opening.
I had expected answers like “How do I get people to return my phone call?”, “How do I …
Personal Branding Interview: Katharine Brooks
Today, I spoke with Katharine Brooks, who is the director of Liberal Arts Career Services at The University of Texas at Austin and author of You Majored In What? In this interview, Katharine talks about how college students should select a major, the fact that your major isn’t your career, questions college students ask her, …
How To Transition or Expand Your Brand to Two Topics
I have a dilemma. I have a blog about Gen Y topics with nearly 1000 subscribers. I started a new blog about marketing and consumer insights this week, and I am worried about transitioning my personal brand. My second blog is far more important than my first one because it’s the platform for my company, …
Personal Brand Excellence
In the business and marketing world, brand excellence is the cumulative result of real-life actions taken by the company to support what the brand stands for. Brands often compete for Brand Excellence awards in their industries to firmly establish that they do in fact exemplify the “Gold Standard”.
“If you want to achieve excellence, you …
Personal Branding Interview: Harry Paul
Today, I spoke with Harry Paul, who is a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on organizational strategy. In this interview, Harry talks about how managers can make fun during a tough economy, money versus passion, his personal brand that he’s developed and information about his new book, which is called Instant Turnaround!…
Personal Branding Interview: Michael Roberto
Today, I spoke with Michael Roberto, who is a professor of management at Bryant University and author of the Know What You Don’t Know. In this interview Michael talks to us about solving problems and how companies can solve problems before they even occur in the future. He also touches upon the reason why companies …
Stereotypes Can Derail Your Personal Branding
Some weeks ago, the mother of a childhood friend brought up politics to my mother during a run-in at the grocery store. “Oh, I know how you voted,” she said with a knowing smile and a wink. “You’re a good person.”
Keep in mind that despite being on friendly terms with this other woman for …
How to Create Your Personal Brand | Part 4
The first three posts in this series, explored how you can begin creating your personal brand through having a few great brainstorm sessions, organizing your thoughts by creating a web diagram, showed you how to create your own self-hosted blog with some great how-to videos and then gave some tips on how to promote your …
A Personal Branding Overview in 5 Short Video Clips
Whether you’re new to personal branding or have already built a strong brand, there’s something for everyone in the personal branding video playlist below.
The 5 clips run just over15 minutes in total. Enjoy.
The primary element in developing your personal brandWatch: Kaplan Mobray: 10Ks of Personal Branding
The 3 fundamentals of a good…