How Your Personal Brand Handles Multiple Hats
“I have many roles, hats if you will. Does that mean I should have an online profile for each?” asked an attendee at the fifth annual Massachusetts Conference for Women.
This is a great question. In fact, there were 11 great questions that were asked during the Q & A portion of my presentation on …
iPhone Applications For Personal Branding
It fascinates me how powerful information is and how much we have to consume each day to remain current. In fact, if I didn’t peruse the live feed on Facebook a week or so ago (I saw Brian Solis commenting on Jeremiah Owyang’s app), I would be late with this post and might have missed …
Personal Branding with a Punch and Some Cookies
Typically, it’s not the best, but the one who can take the stress and makes it to the top of any company, industry or career path is the person who can take a punch, get past the burn and play injured that makes it to number one. It’s the person who cleans and dresses their …
3 Step Personal Branding System
A lot of people I’ve spoken to don’t know where to start when it comes to personal branding, so today I wanted to focus on how to build your own personal branding system by modeling my own. A personal branding system is how you consume, organize and share information every single day in order to …
Personal Branding Blog: Lisa Orrell
Today, I spoke to Lisa Orrell, who is The Generation Relations Expert and author of “Millennials Into Leadership.” In this interview, Lisa explains some Gen-Y stereotypes, what it takes to be a millennial leader, what millennials complain about in the workplace, and how she’s built her own personal brand.
Name at least 3 Millennial stereotypes…How I Built My Brand and You Can, Too
Chances are, unless you knew me personally, you’d never heard of me until September 2008 at the earliest. That’s when I became Examiner.com’s national entry-level careers columnist, even though I’ve been in the career space since 2002.
Between then and Spring 2009, I subscribed and unsubscribed to this very blog, as the importance of personal …
9 Action Items to Navigate the Coming Decade of 10% Unemployment
Are you ready to navigate the coming decade of 10% unemployment?
The jobless rate is at its highest level since 1983 at 10%, this is known as the U3 unemployment rate. An even more comprehensive measure of unemployment, known as the U6, which includes all marginally attached workers, puts the unemployment rate at 17.2%. That …
Personal Branding Interview: James Hamilton
Today, I spoke to James Hamilton, who is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics and Political Science at Duke University. He is also the coauthor of You Are What You Choose. In this interview, James talks about what shapes our decisions, explains how decision making impacts marketing campaigns, and …
6 Key Characteristics of Effective Book Titles
Titles are more than just the words that appear on the front cover of your book; effective book titles not only sell more books, they can launch a follow-up series of books while creating a memorable personal brand for the author’s products & services for years to come.
A few weeks ago, I discussed how …
Personal Branding Interview: Michael Beer
Today, I spoke to Michael Beer, who is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and author of High Commitment, High Performance. In this interview, Michael discusses how high commitment yields high performance, the six barriers to commitment, how people can succeed in a shifting workplace environment, why leaders need to be transparent and how …