Building Relationships Organically – Part 1
When we don’t need anything and simply interact with the people around us—with the other students in our classroom, the other players on our sports team, the other professionals in our office, our neighbors next door—we build relationships organically. Proximity leads to conversation and shared experiences, which brings us closer and leads to more conversation …
Personal Branding Interview: John Baldoni
Today, I spoke to John Baldoni, who is the author of Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up and is a leadership consultant, coach, and speaker. In this interview, John explains how you can lead your boss in a hierarchical organization, why leadership is important in a bad economy, some tips to influence …
Break Out of the Social Media Prison
This is a direct response to Carlos Miceli’s post on Owl Sparks: Prison, Fear, and Personal Branding
You know that feeling you have when you first meet someone? It’s that feeling that you have to put your best foot forward so that you can make the best first impression. We have this feeling at networking …
Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Brusilovsky
Today, I spoke to Daniel Brusilovsky, who is a 16-year-old media producer, entrepreneur, student CEO and writer for TechCrunch. In this short but sweet interview, Daniel tells us how he got started as an entrepreneur, how he’s gotten certain dream opportunities in the tech space, and some recommendations for young professionals.
Daniel, how did you…It’s Not Who You Are, It’s What You Mean
If you’re trying to sell yourself on your stats: as a bundle of skills and experience, you’re going to lose out to competitors who know what they mean and are promoting that to employers and prospects.
The goal of your personal brand effort has got to answer this one question: what do you mean to …
Top 10 Rules for Having a Strong Personal Brand
Sometimes on Twitter (@DanSchawbel) I get into rants when ideas or thoughts come into my head. The other night, I tweeted a list of ten rules. I didn’t even bother saying what they pertain to, but from the tweets it was apparent that they had to do with how to be successful. From my viewpoint, …
Personal Branding Interview: Shira Lazar
Today, I spoke to Shira Lazar, who blogs at the The Pop Report, hosts Mahalo’s THIS WEEK IN YOUTUBE, video blogs from around the globe for CondeNast’s pop culture travel guide, Jaunted, and is a journalist on Travel Channel’s upcoming CONFESSIONS OF A TRAVEL WRITER. In this interview, we find out about how Shira broke …
Branded Introductions
The way we introduce ourselves and others can leave us branded. Branded either for the good and highlighting what is uniquely our strengths. Or, branded negatively by shining a spotlight on our weak areas.
Living in West Texas, when I use the term ‘branded’ I imagine cowboys or vaqueros (Vaquero Regional Note: Used chiefly in …
Personal Branding Interview: Nancy Ancowitz
Today, I spoke to Nancy Ancowitz, who is the author of Self-Promotion for Introverts®: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead and a business communication coach specializing in career advancement and presentation skills. In this interview, Nancy explains what the advantages and disadvantages of being introverted are, gives self-promotion tips for introverts, shares some advice from …
Linkedin Profile Organizer and Killer Traffic Tip
Linkedin announced some new functionality this week with its new Profile Organizer. Now you have the ability to save profiles, organize your connections into folders, and add notes to any or all of your connections. Pretty cool stuff!
Linkedin is currently offering a free 30 day trial for anyone who would like to try out …