9 Ways to Get Bloggers Talking About Your Brand
What is one surefire tip for getting bloggers to talk about your brand?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.
1. Reach out to your blogging customers
“Don’t send a free pass to your software for a blogger and expect …
Three Time Management Strategies for Freelancers
The life of a freelancer sounds ideal. You work when you want, doing what you want, how you want. However, the reality of a freelance life is very different. There is either too much or not enough work. Along with delivering service, you have to market and take care of business duties. Trying to manage …
Goal Setting is Personal
Why do you do anything that you do?
This question came up the other day in a conversation about business and career planning. On the surface it seems quite obvious and the answer is something we all should intrinsically just know. Or so it seems. However, as we dug into it, the answers weren’t all …
Use About.me to Showcase Your Resume
Would you like to showcase your top resume skills and make more connections?
There are several personal portal websites that can help you do that: About.me, Vizify and RebelMouse are just a few.
If you like the simple, better approach, then About.me is the right service to incorporate into your job seeking efforts. The website, …
Own Your Connections
Your connections begin in your own database. When I’m asked about how to “own your game”, or dominate your niche, the first place I begin asking about is what do you know about your database?
Even those born within this last minute, already have a handful of people in their personal database. From the mother …
9 Emerging Brands with Killer Business Strategies
What is your absolute favorite brand to have emerged in 2013 and why?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start …
LinkedIn: Improve Your Visibility, Credibility, and Connect-Ability
Are you on LinkedIn? This question has become more common in that past year, with total subscribers topping 200 million in early 2013 and the stock price doubling in the subsequent six months. As I note in Chapter 13 of Fast Track Your Job Search (and Career!), LinkedIn is “the premier social networking site designed …
Do You Professionally Text?
Hey, January 2025 professional… check out this app. It allows you to select someone from your contact list and then with a push of a button sends a signal to that person alerting them that you are trying to connect. If they wish, they can accept the incoming communication with you, and at that point …
Networking While in a Career Transition is the Key to Success
Becoming unemployed is likely a sudden, unexpected event, and most people do not have the networking skills needed to immediately switch gears and begin efficiently developing job leads. There could be many reasons: feeling uncomfortable with the networking process, not knowing the process, being shy by nature, or never having needed to network in the …
Fit at Last: An Interview with Ken Blanchard
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Ken Blanchard, one of the most influential business leadership experts and author of the iconic One Minute Manager. His newest book, Fit at Last, demonstrates how his leadership techniques can be applied to achieving success and strengthening commitment by chronicling his journey to better health. We discussed …