Brand Shift: Goldman’s Golden Gun
In May I wrote about branding lessons learned from Goldman Sachs. This company has an illusive communications strategy that is not working very well in 2010 as the ever-evolving “new consumer” is changing the way that companies interact with the public. After a very public legal dispute with the S.E.C. that has taken its toll …
Tips for Measuring the Influence of Your Personal Brand
Measuring the influence of your personal brand is a necessary first step towards increasing the influence of your personal brand. Measurement creates a baseline against which you can track your increasing influence.
How do you measure the influence of your personal brand?
Brand measurement is more important today than ever before. There’s more competition for …
Personal Branding Interview: Laura Rowley
Today, I spoke to Laura Rowley, who is a columnist for Yahoo!Finance, and author of Money & Happiness: A Guide to Living the Good Life. Recently, Laura wrote an article for Yahoo!Finance about unique job search tactics that work. In our interview below, Laura talks about job search desperation, lists some creative job hunting techniques …
Personal Brands: Hiding From a Billboard
We know you, not because we really know you. We know you because we cruise by you. On our way to updating our status on Facebook, we check out yours. We whiz past the big, hoary posts from people who don’t understand that FB isn’t a blog, to check out your new pics or a …
Five Email Oversights That Kill Your Brand
Sometimes, with the pressure to do a good job on the big things – close the sale, deliver the code, solve the problem – we overlook the little things along the way, and destroy the very brand we are trying to create.
I knew I had to write this blog thirty minutes ago when I …
Personal Branding 24/7: You’re Always On
As the number of users exponentially grows on social networks, the demand for every single person to have their own “air time” increases. We will constantly have to work harder to become known and remembered now and in the future. If I don’t see your face online every day, then I forget about you when …
A Cup of Coffee to Differentiation
Time to grab your cup of coffee. Add a whole bunch of sugar to get you all pumped up for the next 30 minutes of action because today you’re going to define a fundamental part of your personal brand, from which you’ll build your persona and collateral over the coming months and years.
The question …
Personal Branding Interview: Lisa Nirell
Today, I spoke to Lisa Nirell, who is the Chief Energy Officer of EnergizeGrowth®, and the author of EnergizeGrowth® NOW: The Marketing Guide to A Wealthy Company. In this interview, Lisa talks about how she came up with her brand name, goes over some issues that impact entrepreneurs when they’re businesses are expanding, and more.…
30 Thoughts on the Power of Personal Branding
Keeping true to the nature of the way we consume content in bite sized pieces, here is a list of 30 thoughts on the power of personal branding, why it is important, and the affect it has on the world around you.
The content you create influences your perceived value The content you create in…The Entrepreneur Cover Letter
For many job seekers, the cover letter is an opportunity to sell themselves and differentiate themselves from the rest of the competition. For entrepreneurs, the cover letter is a way to really sell their story and remove any doubt to the potential employer about an entrepreneur’s commitment to someone else’s business.
I will attempt to…