Personal Marketing for Job Search
What is personal marketing for job search?
When searching for a job, the job seeker must first prepare marketing collateral before stepping into the actual job search. Proper preparation is absolutely the key to success. Jumping into a job search unprepared will not only bring disappointment and lengthen the process but also burn bridges for …
Why You Still Need Business Cards
Business cards may seem old fashioned especially for Generation Y and Z. However, it is still essential to actually carry a business card because it provides an easy way of letting other people get in touch with you and is more personal compared to a digital contact exchange. Therefore, it looks like business cards will …
How Would You Rate the Boundaries You Set?
Throughout our childhood, we are taught boundaries for what is acceptable and what is not. We learn to accept the rules set by others, but it is an unknown as to why we are afraid to speak up when our boundaries are over-stepped. The give and take of adhering to rules and procedures apply to …
4 Ways to Increase Foot Traffic Into Your Store
A wonderfully designed store layout, excellent customer service and a variety of useful products can all feel moot for a store if there’s no foot traffic. When it comes to bringing in customers, the appearance both inside and outside a shop plays a critical role in enticing passersby. In addition to enhancing curb appeal, a …
15 Inspiring Brands or Personalities Worth Emulating
The following answers are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched BusinessCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.
1. Elon Musk
“Elon Musk is Tesla. He conveys the …
Choose a Productive, Constructive Perspective Rather Than a Destructive
If I haven’t made it clear enough in my last two posts, let me recap that if given a choice, your managers and colleagues prefer to have around them an individual who:
Has an inexhaustible good nature and is habitually affable.
Has a determined cheerfulness and is easygoing even in adversity.
Is happily disposed …
Make the Right Blog Work for Your Personal Brand
Having an active blog for your personal brand is an important marketing tool in which your brand can build a strong reputation and attract more leads and sales. The type of blog is essential for reaching the right target market effectively.
There are two types of blogs that can work for your brand depending on …
Why You Should Be Concerned About Time Famine
The struggle is real.
And, it’s getting worse every day.
The struggle I’m talking about is … The battle with time.
Time Famine noun. Across a society, a lack of free or leisure time. c2004 via Double-Tongued Dictionary
Like Land … They’re Not Making Any More Time
While this is not 100% true about land …
Best 6 Steps to Find Keywords for Your Résumé
More than eighty percent of all submitted résumés (and 100 percent of résumés sent to Fortune 1000 companies) get scanned by software commonly known as an applicant-tracking system (ATS), and such scanned résumés are stored on a server in a digitized format. Humans are seeing only about one quarter of them and only if it …
Six Dynamic Ways to Serve Your Clients
Client service, broadly defined, means supplying your customers with what they want, when they want it and how they want it, in a friendly and professional way. Client service is a vital ingredient in any business. In fact, a good service interaction can hike business-to-business transactions by 62 percent. It can raise business-to-consumer transactions by …