How Outrageous Is Your Personal Brand?
If you haven’t caused some kind of outrage, you haven’t got a really big BANG kind of brand. That might work for you. Maybe you’re not in the really-need-to-be memorable kind of place in your career.
Maybe Twitter has so few of whatever you are or do that just by being …. you, you stand …
Utilizing Your Non-Existent Network To Get The Interview
Every job posting has a requirements section glaring back at you, telling you that you aren’t good enough. It’s easy for a young professional to get intimidated by a job posting that requires 4-5 years of experience in a specific field and an MBA in a related field.
The question then becomes: “How do I …
Bringing Your Personal Brand To Life In Your Work
Over the past handful of years, somehow I’ve become known as “the shoe girl” in my office. My last job, my new job… people have taken notice that I’m definitely into shoes. And I have the closet to back it up. As well as VIP status on Zappos. What can I say? I love me …
Personal Brand Recovery When Credit Is Due
If you want to succeed, it’s essential that you protect your brand and online reputation. You want to be known for who you are and what you stand for. You want to be given credit for your accomplishments.
Most of the time, you probably do get appreciated or rewarded for your efforts. Your supervisor promotes …
Four Steps To Prepare Yourself For A Career Change
When you want to change careers — to a new field, a new industry or both — your personal brand can feel like a ball and chain weighing you down.
It can seem like your brand does is HURT your plans to change careers, rather than helping you achieve your goals.
But it doesn’t have …
4 Secrets To Be Strategic About Your Job Search
Spring came early this year to parts of the country, including my home state of Michigan. Now the job market looks to be warming up, too.
Almost every week, I receive or read two or three reports showing hiring momentum is increasing. Manpower’s second-quarter Employment Outlook Survey showed “growing optimism” on hiring, with nine in …
Building Captivating Conversations In A “One And Done” World
Let’s assume that your website is a place where people visit once and leave. I’m not saying it’s bad. It might be great. But it has little to do with how many links you have on your site, whether it was designed in an “L” or “Z” eye pattern, or whatever other rationalization might exist …
Willpower: The Fuel Behind Your Career And Your Brand
If you are a regular reader of this blog and other personal branding quality materials, you are probably convinced by now out that your brand is one of your greatest (if not ‘the’ greatest) intangible assets at your disposal. It is also absolutely key to the build-up and development of your career in these most …
A Personal Brand To Emulate – Mariano Rivera
Arguably the most dominate relief pitcher of all time, Mariano Rivera, looks to be set to retire after this season. If he does, he is leaving the sport as one of the most marketable athletes in baseball. Last year, Nielsen Wire had him ranked number two behind Jeter. Not only was he consistent in his …
5 More WordPress Plugins For Personal Brand-Building Bloggers
Another selection of useful WordPress plugins that build your brand while helping your readers.
1. Jetpack
Official description: “a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.”
Jetpack comes from Automattic, the creators of WordPress, so you know it’s high quality.
Although technically one plugin, Jetpack’s combination of …