Happy New Year!!!!!! (With Extra Exclamation Points)
Happy New Year!!!!!!! (These exclamation points will mean something in 28 seconds)
Most of us won’t have too much brainpower today, so let’s get right to it.
Here’s a quick review of Entrepreneur Magazine’s proposed Exclamation Point Guidelines for 2012. These should help communicate our personal brands as we approach the New Year:
Entrepreneur’s interpretation…7 Social Media Resolutions For 2012
I won’t even bother with the typical exercise goals – I’ll start with the goals that are easier for me to accomplish in 2012 in the social media realm. I’ll bet you may want to take a few of these for yourself too.
1. Clean out the quiet people on Twitter.If they haven’t said …
Five Personal Branding Resolutions To Keep In 2012
Well, hell, why not? You’ve made resolutions for everything else so far, why not make resolutions for personal branding next year? Here are five resolutions I wish other marketers, networkers, and social media people would follow. And if you want people to like and respect your personal brand, you’ll at least consider this list of …
Kickstart Your Personal Branding Journey In 2012
Here we are, starting a new year where so much will happen: the London Olympics, the US Presidential Election, the end of the current global financial crisis (we hope!) and tons of other exciting stuff. Did you get your new calendar yet? Any New Year resolutions? Concerned about how to start the year on the …
Sports Leagues Should Embrace Active “Employees” on Twitter
The best brands invite engagement. They showcase authenticity and reply to criticism, instead of deleting it. They also harness the power of their most credible marketers – their employees. Because of social media, employees now have personal brands of their own and can be quite influential. When you think of the personal brands of professional …
Reader Question: Should I Keep My Pseudonym?
Sometimes a pseudonym is a great personal branding move, but times can change.
Here’s the question I was recently asked by a blogger who has used a pen name since launching her blog. She asked me to keep her identity hidden so I’ll call her Ms. Smart (that’s right- a pseudonym for a pen name):…
7 Vital Career ‘Resolutions’ You Should Make for 2012
Part I of II Parts
Editor’s Note: In this the first of a two-part series, international best-selling job hunting book author and professional “headhunter” Skip Freeman examines some key career moves employed job seekers should resolve to make in the upcoming year—if they want to land their dream job in 2012. In Part II, Skip …
No Such Thing as Personal Branding Secret Sauce
I am so very lucky. I have the opportunity to travel the country and speak about personal branding to a variety of people from various teams, groups and organizations. It is a topic that I am passionate about and one that I can speak about based on my journey as well as others.
Invariably, one …
Do You Want To Become An Entrepreneur In 2012?
Yesterday, a Published & Profitable member called told me he was becoming an entrepreneur in 2012, buoyed by his responses to the questions Dan Schawbel asked in Me 2.0 Revised and Updated Edition: 4 Steps to Building Your Future.
After many years in higher education, Mark decided to look beyond a “job” during 2012 and …
Creative Giving to Build Business and Community
Year-end is when many non-profits pound the phones to ask for donations. Given a tough economy, it becomes tough on all concerned; the prospects are embarrassed to say they can’t give and the hired tele-marketer becomes frustrated by all the no’s received. This is the traditional cycle of giving.
Recent conversations had me pondering how …