Personal Branding Interview: Ron Ashkenas
Today, I spoke to Ron Ashkenas, who is a Managing Partner of RHS&A, and an internationally recognized consultant and speaker on organizational transformation and post-merger integration. His latest book is called Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done. In this interview, Ron talks about why companies are so …
MSNBC Misunderstands Role of Social Media in Job Search
Last week, MSNBC published an article called “Social Networking seldom gets new grads hired.” It argues that social media is not an effective way to land a job. However, it truly only makes the case that many people aren’t taking advantage of the tools available to them.
The article misses the point about how social …
Personal Branding Interview: Robin Sharma
Today, I spoke to Robin Sharma,who is the author of The Leader Who Had No Title, and a Fortune 500 leadership adviser. In this interview, Robin talks about leading without a title, if titles really matter in the corporate world, how a title might get in the way of your success, and more.
What does…Personal Brands: Get Naked
Are you playing “dress up” to match the expectations of others? Is there an ever thinning veil, between the real you and the ideal you that you’ve invented and are now struggling to project?
Are you still clenching to maintain the “first date” behavior code with recruiters, your boss or clients? Is your armor cracking …
Personal Branding Interview: Chris Garrett
Today, I spoke to Chris Garrett, who is a professional blogger, Internet Marketing Consultant, new media industry commentator, writer, coach, speaker, trainer, web geek, and co-author of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income. In this interview, Chris talks about how blogging has changed in the past few years, if it’s still …
R.I.P Twitter as a Marketing Platform
A marketing platform is a mass communication tool that allows you convert subscribers (readers/fans) into leads. Marketing, by definition, uses a mix of place, product, promotion and price to create a transaction between a buyer and a seller. It’s not about brand awareness or customer support. The focus of a marketing platform is to drive …
7 Things You Got Wrong About Millennials
The Millennial market is one of, if not the most important consumer segments to marketers right now. They represent a tremendous shift in the way consumers interact with brands, mostly built off of the growth of the internet and social technology over the last 10 years. For years marketers have been relentlessly searching for the …
Why it Takes More than Information to Write a Brand-Building Book
It takes more than information to write a book that drives your business and builds your personal brand.
Information, by itself, is not enough to write a book that builds your personal brand!
No matter how much you already know about your field, or how much experience you’ve accumulated, writing a book requires more than …
Is Your Personal Brand Ready for the Digital Universe?
Each year IDC, an IT think tank, in sponsorship by EMC puts out a report on the state of the Digital Universe. This year’s report has just been released and there are some interesting trends that personal branders can draw from the report.
Here are some of the interesting findings from the IDC report: Between…Personal Branding Interview: Tony Schwartz
Today, I spoke to Tony Schwartz, who is President and CEO of The Energy Project, and author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance. In this book, Tony talks about why workers are disengaged, how to treat workers differently in the workplace, the four forgotten needs of …