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5 Reasons Your Brand Should Live Outside of Your Company

My topic last week of logos for personal brands opened up a discussion about how to establish your personal brand in relation to the company you work for. If you’re a business owner these two elements are much more intertwined than the average worker bee out there, but for the average worker here are some …

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The Truth about Acting, Marketing, and Personal Branding

I have noticed recently that marketing, acting, and personal branding are intertwined in many different ways. The two seemingly different careers (or strategies) embrace similar goals. All three are in the business of storytelling, true or false?

1. Marketing is an integrated process by which companies create interest in a product or service.

3. Personal …

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Personal Branding Interview: Zac Bissonnette

Today, I spoke to Zac Bissonnette, whowrites about personal finance for DailyFinance.com, and is hte author of Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents. In this interview, Zac talks about his book, why a brand name education might not be the best solution, and …

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Personal Branding Interview: Mary C. Gentile

Today, I spoke to Mary C. Gentile, who is a Senior Research Scholar at Babson College and author of Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right. In this interview, Mary talks about brand integrity, the benefits of having a personal brand, personal branding risks, and more.

What do…
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How to Maintain Consistency Across Branding Channels

There’s no doubt that you have a lot of branding opportunity on the Internet today. With every newly released social networking or blogging site comes another way to brand yourself to this new audience.

Just like a company’s brand needs to be consistent, so does your personal brand. A problem some people may have is …

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Branding: Another Way To Make Your Resume Stand Out

Improve Resume Response. Whenever you deliver your resume by more than one communication medium, it improves your hit ratio. With e-mail the standard, most managers get far less traditional mail than they used to, now only the most important business communications are committed to print. When you send a resume and cover letter by e-mail …

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A Cup of Coffee to FREE Marketing Automation

There are no more excuses.

Today is the day to spend your cup-of-coffee time gathering, assembling and organizing your shiny new email list.  You’ve got about a half hour, depending on how fast you drink your joe, to pull together the following:

The shoebox of business cards you’ve accumulated over the past 5 years Email…
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