Sell Your Brand On Performance Review Day
Sales techniques apply 100% to helping you earn an improved performance review. Planning ahead from day one will help you avoid lost time.
The first rule to adhere to is, always sell yourself to management. This is accomplished by embracing documentation. I am not one for paperwork but the essentials are easy to organize in …
Top 10 Jobs That Give Back Year Round
With the holiday season upon us, now is a time that many Americans feel inspired to help others in their community who are in need. According to Volunteering in America, about 27% of Americans volunteer at some point during the year.
However, if you’re looking to give back more than once a year and are …
How Your Personal Brand Will Get You Hired
As Dan Schwabel has said before, “If a resume was the deciding factor in recruitment, there would never be a need for interviews.”
Here are some reasons how your personal brand can get you hired.
It will make you stand out.
By creating your personal brand prior to job searching, you have a leg up …
5 Tips On Your Brand’s Emotional Footprint
Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?
If Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, than emotion must be an integral factor in successful branding. Coke would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, so the warm fuzzy feeling of connection – not …
Are You Paying Attention to Your Intentions?
“There are two ways of spreading light. Being the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
I discovered a website in 2006, that I really connected with called iJourney.org. It’s simply a blog and community of positive content and writing, from a very simple, human, spiritual perspective. Lot’s of common sense ideas …
Expand Your Brand Like Michael Jackson
Have you seen Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” movie? What an inside view into the artist that Michael Jackson truly was on, and off, stage. Before I saw this movie, again recently on TV, I was blind to the deep talent Jackson held.
Group to solo artistIn ’77, after 14 years and 14 albums …
Job Seekers: Enhance Your Brand by Showing Your Skills
The job search isn’t what it used to be. That’s for sure.
In fact, with hundreds of applicants for every job opening, the tactics that yield job offers have changed dramatically.
In part because of the volume and in part because of the competition, job seekers that stand out – job seekers whose personal brands …
3 Steps to Your Content Strategy
Today’s buyers receive, use and make decisions based on trusted independent sources. In fact, according to IDC, marketing content is now the buyer’s preferred vendor information source.
Now is the time to dedicate a few hours to your personal brand content map for 2012. Spending the time now will allow you to organize and filter …
Congrats On Your 65,000 Followers. Now Which Are Real?
If you’ve been on Twitter at all in your life, you’ve probably encountered the message of someone who promises, “I’ll get you 5,000 followers on Twitter in the next two weeks!”
My question is…so what?
Does quantity of followers matter over quality? No. I don’t think it does.
It certainly doesn’t matter when it’s become …
Three Advanced Personal Branding Techniques
Most of you reading this are beyond the “start a blog, get on Twitter” advice for personal branding. Way beyond it. Hell, if you found this site, you’re already on Twitter, you rock out Facebook, and you know how your Klout score is trending. but still have to look at your license plate to remember …