How Your Personal Brand Changes Over Time
Your personal brand isn’t meant to be stagnant. After all, throughout your career, you’ll certainly grow and change as an individual. So will your business.
What influences these changes in your personal brand over time?
Your experience New business ventures Switching career paths Interests New skills Your mentors or close colleaguesJust because you’ve built …
Something Is Missing
Checked my email on Sunday night. Which of these email messages mean anything to me?
Tires for Sale VA Loan Review Fly a Private Jet Enlargement Salma Hayek Weight Loss Yoshiblade Walk-in Tub Prince Ahmed Karim CBAtabanswernetworkThe last one. The others are spam. The last one is from my answering bureau, the one that …
6 Intangibles That Can Get You Hired
The new job post of today, and certainly tomorrow, looks something like this:
Wanted: 20 year company seeking sales professional with 5 years of a proven track record in increasing new business, expanding sales territory and customer categories, increase existing account spending and sales team loyalty who plays well with others, encourages creative thinking, builds …
4 Ways To Successfully Negotiate A Job Offer
It’s taken months and months just to land an interview and now the call you’ve been waiting for has finally happened, they offered you the job. Just when you thought the process was over, the hard part begins. Do you take the offer or negotiate? According to The EDGE Report, 61% of today’s employers are …
Visibly Mobile
At coffeehouse in San Francisco with the whirring of a coffee grinder in the background, James Alexander- Founder of Vizibility, the company that helps you to take control and manage what people find about you on Google, spoke with me and generously shared some updates with his company. They’ve just launched their mobile friendly search …
A Cup Of Coffee To Unexpected Influencers
Dr. Robert Cialdini has written many best-sellers, including Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Yes!: 50 Scientifically proven Ways to Be Persuasive, and Influence: Science and Practice. His purpose is to conduct and translate proven scientific research into ethical business applications.
On his Influence at Work website, some interesting new findings on the level of an …
Branding Yourself To Be Headhunted
So, you’re looking for a new career opportunity, either because you have lost (or expect to lose) your current job OR because you are one of the many ready to “test the waters” now that the economy is getting better. In fact, there are about 108 million currently employed …
Look For Your Next Job While You Have This One
I’ve got a friend, Lyle, who is scared in his job right now.
Lyle is 48, working for a large organization, and figures he is only holding on to this job by the skin of his teeth. Lyle spends his days keeping his head down, not offering any opinions, and avoiding trouble of any sort. …
Brute Force
Who annoys you? Who frustrates you because they’re more successful than you but they don’t deserve it? You’re smarter. You work harder. You provide more value. Yet, for some reason, they have achieved success and you might still be struggling … and it drives you crazy.
Luck on your side?I’m obviously assuming that you …
30 Costly Personal Branding Errors To Avoid
See “intellectual dishonesty” if you think this list isn’t for you.
We’re all somewhere on this list.
And that’s not a bad thing; it means there’s still room to grow.
30 personal branding no-no’s
In no specific order:
Lack of a chosen, designed branding plan to follow, including online and offline strategies Not measuring your…