Your Brand Under Attack: When ‘Goodyism’ Doesn’t Pay
Nothing can be more precious to many of us than our personal brands, since they are often the result of sound strategy, countless positive interactions with others both online and offline and a proven record of delivering quality service to our clients and the community. However – and as our editor Maria Duron pointed out …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #13
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and Gen-Y, Twitter, presentations and lack of focus.
Audrey Xiong, @Audrey_Xiong, tweeted: why do we need personal branding?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: To build your value in the eyes of others.
Personal branding has always existed, it just wasn’t always called that.
Take job search, for example.…
Still Job Hunting Online, Never Hearing Back? Try This!
If you are the typical job hunter in today’s job market, I strongly suspect that you are among the legions of those who are doing the same things over and over and still expecting different results. (Isn’t that the true definition of “insanity”?!) What I’m referring to here concerns going to the job boards to …
Personal Branding Is Not A Hobby
Building your personal brand is not easy. Beyond all the hype and success stories that you read and hear about, it is a grind. I often compare it to trying to find a light switch in a dark room that is unfamiliar to you. It will certainly make you second-guess yourself as you often wonder …
Best Practices for One Sheet Personal Brand-Building Success
They’re practical, effective, and efficient tools that can distributed for free as email attachments or website downloads. You can also use your desktop printer to print and mail them, as needed, or distribute them at networking events.
One of the best ways you …
Team Playing Increases Business Success
Being a team player encompasses everything you do. Unfortunately many people work very hard at trying to build business, but when in person, they wind up destroying what they built. They are unaware that working together so much more may be achieved.
All sound relationships are built on team effort whether 1:1 or in large …
Don’t Let Your Cell Phone Sell Your Age
Today’s post is written by Gareth Parkin.
About a month ago a mid-level executive I know in California asked my advice about getting a new cell phone. He said, “I don’t really need or want a smart phone, I don’t text or email from my phone. My old phone is dying though and they don’t …
Did You Trick Anyone?
As if you ordinarily invite us to see the real you, Halloween gave you the proper opportunity to pretend. That is pretend to try and fool us with your mask or costume.
At work I saw witches who believe they were wearing clothes becoming someone with a worse attitude. Ghosts who believe we don’t know …