Personal Branding Interview: Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster
Today, I spoke to both Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster, who are the cofounders of K2 Enterprises and coauthors of Working For You Isn’t Working For Me. In this interview, they talk about how to get along with your manager, how to deal with it, when to quit your job if you don’t get along …
Facts Tell While Stories Sell
Are you good at telling your story? Personal branding provides the focus and energy of your story. If you know who you serve or need to connect with, then your story becomes compelling and interesting.
When I say story, I’m not referring to a long dissertation nor am I describing a keynote address. Your story …
Personal Branding Interview: Frances Cole Jones
Today, I spoke to Frances Cole Jones, who is the author of The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today’s Business World and and founder of Cole Media Management. In this interview, Frances goes over controlling your reputation, how to sell yourself in any given …
Some Personal Branding Brain Food
Recently, I stumbled across Tom Peters’ article The Brand Called You — I pulled out some of my favorite points for this week’s post. If you have not read this article yet, it is an non-negotiable, absolute, must-read! If you have read it, it won’t hurt to read it again — I learn something new …
7 Habits of the Successfully Published, Part 4: Leverage
Successful authors tend to be highly leveraged; this doesn’t mean, however, that they are deep in debt. Rather, it means that they are committed to to recycling, reusing, and re-purposing their ideas.
Successful avoid the temptation to continually reinvent the wheel. Instead, they create a body of knowledge, and use it for multiple marketing and …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #3
More answers to recent questions people are asking on Twitter about personal branding.
Benson Mensah-Bonsu, @bmbonsu, asked: What is the most important part of your personal brand?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare:
Your capacity to convince people that you are what you say you are.
Ideally that means having an authentic personal brand, one that is just …
Personal Branding: Your Content DOES NOT MATTER
Do you know how good it feels like the first time your blog gets a thousand visitors in a day? Neither do I…I’m just kidding.
The reality is that there is a very important lesson that you must learn if you want what you write to be read. It’s very simple – yet SO important:…
Maintaining Networking Momentum After You Land the Job
Networking is something many job seekers get into reluctantly. It can feel awkward if you haven’t done much of it before. What do you do, where do you start?
Losing your job, especially, can make you want to hold back from meeting new people and talking about yourself. What will you say when they ask …