Unpaid Internship Opponents Miss The Point – And The Opportunities.
After my Freshman year of college, I had an internship during the summer at a radio station writing copy for station commercials. After my Sophomore year, I had an internship at a radio station’s promotions department, having a voice in the direction of the promotions the station created. And after my Junior year, I had …
Five Secrets To Write Outstanding Presentations
Want to write great presentations that leave your audience wanting more? Want to avoid Death By PowerPoint, but still need a slide deck?
The secret to outstanding presentationsHere are five secrets I use in creating outstanding presentations.
1) Start with the title.
I always start with titles similar to the ones I’ve done here …
The Day That Influence Became The New Online Currency
In the past couple of weeks, we have been witness to the furore about online influence reaching new heights. It was, for the most part, thanks to the rekindling of the public debate around online influence measuring and its effectiveness brought about by the recent release of Brian Solis’ report ‘The Rise of Digital Influence‘, …
To Give And Receive – My Personal Advice Experiment
This week, I chose a day where I was going to listen and be influenced by others. As one who has given a lot of advice over the years, I thought my “day of advice and recommendations” would be a great gauge to see if I was as open receiving it as I thought I …
Real Goal Of The HR Interview: To Eliminate You!
Great news! The Human Resources Department of a company to which you recently applied, and which may have already successfully “screened” you as a potential candidate with a preliminary telephone interview, now wants to set up a face-to-face interview with you at company headquarters! The company must really be serious about you as a candidate, …
How To Bounce Back From Personal Branding Disappointment
How you handle disappointment will play a major role in your personal branding success.
At some point or another, you may experience disappointment during your journey to personal branding success. An expected job offer may not materialize, your book may not sell as well as expected, or a recent marketing campaign may not attract qualified …
Qualify The Opportunity For Best Results
Most likely, you are frequently bombarded with requests to partner, become an affiliate, or provide a free gift to enhance someone’s endeavor. In the early stages of business it is quite exciting to be asked to contribute to better-known entities. You feel as if you are at least arriving if have not yet quite arrived.…
Brand Yourself To Highlight The Best
As a personal brand today, your online reputation is very important. Hiring managers, recruiters, business owners, clients, and the like, probably Google your name to see what comes up before they even consider hiring you.
This is why it’s essential for you to control your search engine results. You want to highlight the best things …
Corrosive Power Or Conscience?
The business of football got uglier when information about the bounty for pain scandal surfaced. This scandal is currently decimating the management, income, and personal brands of the New Orleans Saints. The ironically named Saints are not the only team of people to pool money and put people in the cross-hairs, in hopes of destroying …
What’s Your Swag?
The word of the year so far is SWAG..
Straight from the Urban dictionary and one of the hottest cultural terms of the moment! By definition “It’s about appearance, style or the way he or she presents themselves”.
Swag can be applied to everythingIt’s being applied to just about anything, including dental swag, which …