The Must Have Skill Sets For the New World
What are the skills that you will need to have in the new economy? If you’ve ever wondered what some of these skills are, this post is for you.
Skill sets for the new world1.) Social media and Web 2.0 know how:
To understand how social media and Web 2.0 are changing industries gives …
Using Design To Extend And Safeguard Your Brand
Authors should use design to extend and safeguard their brand beyond the cover of the book they wrote to build their visibility, attract new business, and establish a personal brand.
The book cover is the starting point; it’s the most immediately obvious visible symbol of an author’s personal brand.
And, in many cases, a book …
10 Ideas To Kickstart A Personal Brand That’s Gone Stale
Here are some ideas to get your creative branding juices flowing.
Join a new communityFind a new forum or niche social network and become an active member of the community, participating for at least 15 minutes every single day until you are a recognized expert on the basis of your participation alone.
Create a…Personal Branding Interview: Lisa Johnson Mandell
Today, I spoke to Lisa Johnson Mandell, who is an award-winning multi-media journalist, author and Career Image Specialist. She is the author of Career Comeback– Repackage yourself to get the job you want and blogs for AOL’s new Dime Crunch. In this interview, Lisa explains how to make a career comeback, how she’s made her …
Twitter Chats: A Great Place For Your Brand To Shine
Twitter chats are when you chat on Twitter around a certain subject and mark each tweet with a hashtag (#) denoting that you are associating it with that chat or topic. While many people utilize those hashtags like keywords to be associated with on Twitter, a Twitter chat happens at one specific time and everyone …
Above All, Your Voice Matters
There comes a point in life when you need to pick up an old book and refresh the ideas that changed the world. I picked up the Cluetrain Manifesto last night and read through a couple key chapters.
First off, I love the book. I read it when it came out a couple of years …
Personal Re-Branding
Creating a personal brand is like creating a product brand, because you as a person are a product that needs to be developed, marketed and evolved over time. There are very few brands out there that have had the same marketing and communications strategy since their formation, because as brands grow and consumers evolve brands …
Maintaining Your Personal Brand During Illness or Injury
Until 2009, I hadn’t been to a primary care physician in I don’t know how long. I’m typically very healthy – exercise daily, eat right, all of that good stuff. Unfortunately, “all of that good stuff” hasn’t kept me completely out of doctors’ offices over the years. In the last decade, I’ve had a cancer …
3 Myths About Google Profiles and 2 Reasons to Have One Anyway
Your Google Profile is a very important part of your online identity.
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USA Today published a survey last week from The Creative Group about evaluating candidates for marketing and advertising jobs. In it, 72% of respondents said they would conduct a web search using the candidate’s name …
Personal Brands: Take Your Time
The longest emails I write take the least time. The shorter and thus, more powerful my note, the more I weed whack out unnecessary words. The more time I have to prepare, the better and shorter my presentations. I’ve had a year to plan my Personal Branding Bootcamp at UCLA coming April 17-18. Are you …