Prepare NOW to be Downsized
Are YOU Prepared to be ‘Downsized?’
As this blog is being written, the sputtering economy—once again!—is slowing down. Notwithstanding a few recent glimmers of hope, unemployment remains stubbornly and intractably high. As a matter of fact, a recent news story claimed that chronic unemployment, i.e., unemployment among those who remain without a job for six …
Social Media, Customer Service and Home Depot
There are thousands upon thousands of people that still doubt the enormous power of social media and its ability to affect change. In some ways, you cannot blame them. Everywhere you turn; it is being thrown in your face (your inbox) by the media or some self-proclaimed guru claiming to have mastered the social media …
Lessons in Personal Branding from Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver is more than a bestselling author and television celebrity chef; his website offers numerous strategy and execution lessons for those seeking personal branding success.
The page title on Jamie Oliver’s website says it all: The official site for Jamie Oliver recipes, books & products, products, recipes, and the Food Revolution.
A casual exploration …
One Idea Creates A Million
Years ago I was advised to create a “free” tip sheet as a giveaway at my vendor table at tradeshows. The man further suggested I simply turn my favorite piece of advice into 10 top tips. Next, it was recommended I turn the compiled tips into a colorful sheet or postcard. His prediction was it …
Maximize Personal Branding on The Job Hunt
Your personal brand can be a huge influence on your job search. It can often help you stand out among the hundreds of other candidates vying for an open position – and sometimes even be that differentiating factor that helps you land the job.
Maximize personal branding on the job hunt by following these steps …
Do You Exist?
Search engines are doing an ever better job of customizing search results based on the prior behavior and preferences of the user. So, if you like YouTube and you rarely have clicked through onto MySpace, then the MySpace presence of people and things will simply not exist for you. That is, MySpace results for the …
6 Ways To Get More Personal In A Digital World
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second article in the virtual and online networking activity series. The first article ran last week: The 5 Benefits of Networking Virtually.
How do we turn all the Tweeters, Facebookers, and LinkedIners into actionable tangible relationships?
I use TweetDeck as a social application that helps me organize and monitor my …
Job Search Etiquette: 5 Mistakes To Avoid
With 84% of employed professionals active seeking a different career opportunity and nearly 14 Million Americans unemployed, there is an abundance of job seekers in today’s market. In a market more competitive than The Great Depression, savvy job seekers need to have their manners as polished as their shoes.
Polish your impressionTo help polish …
What I Learn About You In A Few Quick Google Searches
When you Google your name, the 10 websites that populate the first page of results are your online reputation. This is the internet version of your personal brand. And I’ll argue it’s as important as ever.
As a fellow business owner, blogger, or net citizen, I’m sure you meet new people all the time. These …
The Cutest Cat Video on the Internet? Really?
I’ll be brief.
For whatever reason, there is an endless sea of cat videos on the Internet. Funny cats, mean cats, fighting cats, talking cats, captioned cats, and much, much more.
So, out of the millions of often pointless cat videos–how does ONE stand out?
Chances there are others who can do the same job…