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Personal Branding Interview: Mark Jeffries

Today, I spoke to Mark Jeffries, who former Merrill Lynch Stockbroker, turned speaker and author of The Art of Business Seduction: A 30-Day Plan to Get Noticed, Get Promoted and Get Ahead. In this interview, Mark talks about how he’s branded himself, the connection between business and dating, some job search secrets, and more.

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A Cup of Coffee to “Personal Branding for Job Search Success”

I got a sneak peek of Joshua Waldman’s newest ebook, “Personal Branding for Job Search Success.”

Joshua is the founder of career consulting agency, Career Enlightenment.  As an author, speaker, trainer and consultant, Joshua teaches technology skills that help businesses grow and job seekers get noticed.

Joshua writes, “The realities of the new job market …

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Personal Branding Interview: Kathryn Hall

Today, I spoke to Kathryn Hall, who is an internationally known book publicist, and author of the forthcoming book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden. In this interview, Kathryn talks about her book, things we can learn from nature, how to stay focused and not spread yourself too thin, cleaning up …

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Personal Branding Interview: Jim Kukral

Today, I spoke to Jim Kukral, who is a web marketer & business web coach, speaker, long-time award-winning blogger, customer evangelist, writer, online monetization expert, and author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue (Wiley). I contributed personal branding advice to Jim’s new book. …

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Save Your Online and Offline Brands from Yourself

Here at the PersonalBrandingBlog, we provide you with all sorts of tips for creating and maintaining your personal brand. But, we don’t cover often enough what you might have already done wrong and how to fix it.

Online

TBYP (Think Before You Post)

Because the impact of any single mistake on the Internet is exponential, …

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Personal Brands: Ugly Entrepreneurs

Making sausage next to a stockyard is prettier than entrepreneurs behave. Often chaotic, angry, distracted by shiny objects, chasing money, yelling at employees – let’s visit with the tribe of ugly entrepreneurs.

Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Huntington were all really ugly people. Maybe not in the face but definitely in the way they behaved toward …

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Personal Branding Interview: Greg Verdino

Today, I spoke to Greg Verdino, who is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, and the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). In this interview, Greg talks about his new book, macro versus micro marketing, weighs in on the quality versus quantity debate in social media, …

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Behavioral Building Blocks For A Credible Brand

Remember that first day at work after college, when you eventually got up the courage to go forage for a cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there stuck on the wall was a handwritten sign reading:

YOUR MOTHER DOESN’T WORK HERE

PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF

You thought to yourself, “Pick up after …