Month: August 2010

Book ReviewsBrand Identity & Self-DiscoveryCommunication & NetworkingInterviewLifestyle & Habit BuildingPublic RelationsRelationship Networking

Personal Branding Interview: Kathryn Hall

Today, I spoke to Kathryn Hall, who is an internationally known book publicist, and author of the forthcoming book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden. In this interview, Kathryn talks about her book, things we can learn from nature, how to stay focused and not spread yourself too thin, cleaning up …

Book ReviewsBrand Identity & Self-DiscoveryCommunication & NetworkingCorporate BrandingeBrandInterviewMarketing & Personal Branding

Personal Branding Interview: Jim Kukral

Today, I spoke to Jim Kukral, who is a web marketer & business web coach, speaker, long-time award-winning blogger, customer evangelist, writer, online monetization expert, and author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue (Wiley). I contributed personal branding advice to Jim’s new book. …

Communication & NetworkingLifestyle & Habit BuildingRelationship NetworkingReputation Management

Save Your Online and Offline Brands from Yourself

Here at the PersonalBrandingBlog, we provide you with all sorts of tips for creating and maintaining your personal brand. But, we don’t cover often enough what you might have already done wrong and how to fix it.

Online

TBYP (Think Before You Post)

Because the impact of any single mistake on the Internet is exponential, …

Communication & NetworkingLifestyle & Habit BuildingRelationship Networking

Personal Brands: Ugly Entrepreneurs

Making sausage next to a stockyard is prettier than entrepreneurs behave. Often chaotic, angry, distracted by shiny objects, chasing money, yelling at employees – let’s visit with the tribe of ugly entrepreneurs.

Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Huntington were all really ugly people. Maybe not in the face but definitely in the way they behaved toward …

Book ReviewsBrand Identity & Self-DiscoveryCommunication & NetworkingCorporate BrandingInterviewMarketing & Personal BrandingRelationship NetworkingSocial Media

Personal Branding Interview: Greg Verdino

Today, I spoke to Greg Verdino, who is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, and the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). In this interview, Greg talks about his new book, macro versus micro marketing, weighs in on the quality versus quantity debate in social media, …

Brand Identity & Self-DiscoveryCommunication & NetworkingLifestyle & Habit BuildingNetworkingRelationship Networking

Behavioral Building Blocks For A Credible Brand

Remember that first day at work after college, when you eventually got up the courage to go forage for a cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there stuck on the wall was a handwritten sign reading:

YOUR MOTHER DOESN’T WORK HERE

PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF

You thought to yourself, “Pick up after …

Career DevelopmentCommunication & NetworkingLifestyle & Habit BuildingRelationship Networking

A Cup of Coffee to Your Personalized Email Campaign

At some point over the next year – whether you own a small business, run a website, sell professional services, or are looking to get hired for a gig or full time employment – people you don’t regularly communicate with will be ready to “buy.”

So—when they are ready, will you be top of mind?…

Brand Yourself AsLifestyle & Habit BuildingPositioningRelationship Networking

Advance Your Personal Brand and Let Content Persuade

Personal branders know objections and resistance are a part of the personal branding process and there are many great resources that detail strategies for handling objections. Many of these strategies focus on how to handle objections verbally in either face to face encounters or over the phone. There is much less thought leadership on how …