Cool, Clever Trends Help Personal Branding!
I have been watching, following and studying trends for many years. To see how demographics, events, cycles all intersect, converge and impact our lives in such immediate and long lasting ways is fascinating! The financial and banking collapse at the end of 2008, was a long time in coming, but once it hit it changed …
Personal Branding Weekly and Word of Mouth Follow-Up
This week we covered deadly sins, the curse of the expert, pitfalls to your brand in the waiting room and the “do’s and don’ts” of preserving your brand even when you say good-bye.
If you missed it, here they are in one easy place:
The Parent Dilemma by Jun Loayza Job Search Improvements: Customize Personal…The 10 Commandments For Concrete Confidence (Part 2)
Last week, I discussed how your self-image forms the foundation of your personal brand, and we covered the first 5 of “The 10 Commandments For Concrete Confidence.” Here are #6-10:
6. Surround yourself with winners. Attitudes are contagious. If you consistently hang out with negative, defeated people, you will develop a more negative mindset. If …
Five Aspects of Your Personal Brand You’re Forgetting
It’s easy to overlook core aspects of your personal brand.
Why?
Well, for the same reason that Coke hires an agency to make their Super Bowl ads. Its a heck-of-a-lot easier to look at someone’s else’s personal brand and dissect it or improve it than it is our own.
True story.
To help with this, …
Beware Helicopter Parents! Kids Aren’t Learning Skills for Success
In today’s challenging economy, many parents are anxious to help their children avoid failure and are willing to do almost anything to give their children a competitive edge. In the nation’s biggest cities these days the competition among affluent parents over slots in “prestigious” preschools is intense. I vividly recall the frantic phone call from …
Rules for Protecting Your Brand in the Waiting Room
Everything counts when it comes to finding a job – and your demeanor in the waiting room while you wait for your interview is no different. I’ve always asked the company receptionist for their opinion on a candidate they’ve met. While they haven’t interviewed the candidate, they are certainly in a position to observe a …
Why I Hate Elevator Pitches
Fellow PBB writer, Scott Bradley, nearly had me rolling my eyes when he wrote about why your personal brand needs an elevator pitch. But he saved me from serious eye strain when he avoided making the cardinal sin most elevator pitch writers make.
The sin of being too clever.
Scott’s strategy is a good one. …
5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
As my first post for the Personal Branding Blog I have thought for a while about what I wanted to write. I have a pile of ideas that I will be sharing every week about everything from tips and tricks, for getting things done while working for a large corporation or with solo-preneurs, to how …
Personal Branding: The Seven Deadly Sins
Since the dawn of the new millennium, Personal Branding has been going from strength to strength and is currently being touted as one of the ‘make or break’ factors for career success. Need recent proof to substantiate this claim? How about the inclusion of this blog on the Forbes ‘Top 75 Websites for your Career‘ …
Why I Joined App.net
Oy vey, another social network. But one worth investing in, for now.
What is App.net?
CEO Dalton Caldwell explains it best:
Join the Movement at join.app.net from AppDotNet on Vimeo.
In a nutshell, App.net is a new social network that looks like Twitter and that works like Twitter, but that also addresses Twitter’s main problems …