Month: August 2009

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Personal Branding Interview: Chris Anderson

Today, I spoke to Chris Anderson, who is the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, as well as the New York Times bestselling author of both The Long Tail and Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price.  In this interview, Chris explains (possibly for the first time) the impact of the free economy on branding, …

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5 Ways to Destroy Your Personal Brand

Building a strong personal brand also means avoiding the mistakes that can ruin a personal brand. Here are 5 kinds of mistakes that could cost your personal brand dearly.

Personal branding mistakes I hope you never make

1) Lying on your resume

You’ve heard it before and I’ll say it again. Whether to embellish your …

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My Personal Branding Story Part 5: Becoming a Renaissance Worker

This is the fifth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.

In my last post, I introduced the concept of a Renaissance Worker and how I came to see this term as a way to …

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Adding “Connector” to Your Personal Brand

Much of my joy from networking comes not from what new business I can generate (okay, that is fun), but from learning about what others do and how I can connect them to the ideas, people and resources that can help and inspire them.

Generous and helpful

Good networkers are generous with sharing information and …

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How to Avoid the 11 Biggest Mistakes of First-Time Authors

Writing, books, and personal branding go hand in hand. When you know how to write, and you use that power to write and promote a book, you can change your life, especially as a first-time author.

Writing and promoting a book opens windows of opportunity–opportunities that would never otherwise show up. As a published author, …

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Four Reasons You Aren’t Getting Book Publicity from Bloggers

There is nothing that irritates me more than getting pitched by new authors who have never contacted me before but want me to review their books or interview them on my blog. I didn’t realize how much it annoyed me until I wrote a long comment about it on Sydney Owen’s recent blog post about …

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My Personal Branding Story Part 4: I am a Renaissance Worker

This is the fourth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.

Over 500 years ago, a new vision of human beings began to emerge during the Renaissance period that “considered man empowered, limitless in his …

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Personal Branding Interview: Tory Johnson

Today, I spoke to Tory Johnson, who is the Workplace Contributor on ABC’s Good Morning America and has just released her latest book called Fired to Hired.  In this interview, Tory explains the steps you’ll need to take to survive a layoff and come out ten times stronger.  She’ll tell you the mistakes people make …