One Baby Step
Could it be a trial offer that costs just $1, and a payment of significantly more – if the trial offer proves to be valuable and effective?
We all think of hitting home runs, of developing the …
5 Success Insights Over 5 Years
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It’s been a long-held belief that 50% of businesses fail in the first year and 95% fail within the first five years. However, according to recent statistics published by …
Corporate America Lifestyle From An Entrepreneur’s Eye
New shoes on your first day of work at an 800-acre corporate campus are a bad idea…unless you like blisters. That was my first lesson on day one as the new Division Vice President of Social Media Marketing for a Fortune 50 retailer based in the Chicagoland area. Life has been a bit different working …
Does Your Personal Brand Speak The Right Language?
Language is everything.
It sends subtle messages about your attitude, your intelligence, your background and even your motivations. Yet, its not something that we always think about changing, so its often sub-optimal.
Our personal brands often speak the wrong language.
This really struck me when speaking with a client of mine, Elizabeth. She is looking …
The End of Meetings, The Start of Missions.
As I was reading my Facebook stream this morning, a simple message from Sally Hogshead, author of the book, Fascinate (and a great, inspirational speaker on creativity) struck me:
“Every meeting should be planned with a specific change in mind. Nobody needs more status quo!”
As I thought about this, it occurred to me that …
Recommendations When You’re New
Being new to an industry is very exciting, but it can also be quite daunting. Though you may be confident in the knowledge and skills you have, there is still the fact that you don’t have any experience yet, and this is what’s going to differentiate you from all the others who have a world …
The New Personal Branding Online Success Formula
On the surface, nothing could be more complex than personal branding success. Our abilities and skills, the strength of our determination to succeed, the strategy we follow or even being in the right place at the right time all seem to be contributing factors. And yet by so reasoning we would be falling into one …
Get Noticed…..Literally
What makes you stand out? Do you have something defining or memorable that makes someone take a second look?
Appearance makes a difference. Period.
55% of a person’s first opinion of you is based on your physical appearance and your body language. As an athlete, you wear a team uniform most often in front of …
Personal Branding Extortion: Your Money or Your Reputation
Has a copyright issue lead to threats of extortion? You be the judge.
BackgroundOver on JobMob back in March 2010, I published 20 Funniest Job Search and Work FAIL Pictures, a collection that was gathered from around the web.
One of the images initially included in that article was from a photographer’s Flickr stream. …
Job Hunters: Consider Branding Yourself as a ‘Purple Squirrel’
Do you have the “Sunday night blues”? You know, that growing sense of unease, that creeping feeling of dread, at the prospect of having to return on Monday morning to begin yet another week in a job you’ve come to loathe. Or, maybe, your feeling of dread is fueled by the fact that you’re still …