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A Cup of Coffee to Your Personalized Email Campaign

At some point over the next year – whether you own a small business, run a website, sell professional services, or are looking to get hired for a gig or full time employment – people you don’t regularly communicate with will be ready to “buy.”

So—when they are ready, will you be top of mind?…

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Advance Your Personal Brand and Let Content Persuade

Personal branders know objections and resistance are a part of the personal branding process and there are many great resources that detail strategies for handling objections. Many of these strategies focus on how to handle objections verbally in either face to face encounters or over the phone. There is much less thought leadership on how …

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Which Social Networking Platform Should An Entrepreneur Brand Themself On?

As I’ve discussed in the past, to help build a brand for an entrepreneur, entrepreneurs should explore blogging, social networking, and creative cover letters and resumes. In this post, I’ll help to evaluate the various social networking platforms an entrepreneur can use to build a brand on:

Facebook: With Facebook, an entrepreneur can create a …

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How to Design Contagious Presentation Slides

If you want to learn more about the science of delivering contagious presentations, be sure to download the eBook now and register for the August 19th Science of Presentations webinar.

Anyone who is working on developing a personal brand probably gives a number of presentations and they want people to talk about them. Tweets and …

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Personal Branding Interview: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Today, I spoke to Jeffrey Pfeffer, who is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the author of Power: Why Some People Have It—And Others. In this interview, Jeffrey talks about why he wrote a book on power, how to gain power and lose …

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Your Book Idea into a Published Brand-Building Book

Writing is the biggest obstacle between ideas and personal brands; unless you take action on your ideas and actually write your article, start your blog, or finish your book, your ideas will never turn into career-enhancing SEO visibility and a brand-building published book.

And, it’s not just writing a book! The ability to take action …

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3 Ways to Acquire Referrals for Your Personal Brand

There is no greater gift your personal brand can receive than a recommendation, referral, or testimonial. I’m currently reading a great book by John Jantsch called The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. Although clearly a business book and not a personal branding book, so many of its principles can be applied to …