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You Need to Become a Personal Brand Talent Scout
Finding the right talent is a difficult task, just ask any headhunter. One thing that everyone forgets is that we are all in the “talent scouting” and “recruiting” business now. From building out your personal brand board of advisers to surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals, you need to be talent scout if you want to …
Personal Branding Interview: Laurie Davis
Today, I spoke to Laurie Davis, who is the eFlirt expert and co-host of LoveNation, a weekly Web show that covers emerging trends in the dating world. In this interview Laurie talks about how she branded herself, how your online profile can impact your dating life, what it takes to be an online dating coach, …
How I Got Published
I’ve been asked a lot of questions about this, so I thought I’d put it out there once and for the record. First, I want to tell you that publishing is not an easy process, but it’s not an impossible one either. If you have a great idea, a fair amount of talent, and an …
5 Personal Branding Tips to Help You Gate Jump
Why does personal branding accelerate your growth both personally and professionally? It is because when you create an influential and credible personal brand you are playing the game and giving yourself the opportunity to gate jump.
Here are 5 personal branding tips to help you gain lift:
1.) Identify and introduce yourself to 10 strong …
Learn to Write a Book by Reading
Reading and analyzing books by others should play an important role in your journey to writing a nonfiction book to build your personal brand as an expert in your field.
Usually, your reading takes place in your field. But, often, the best learning takes place when you read and analyze books outside of your field.…
Ask The Readers: Can Your Personal Brand Be Adversely Affected By Who Follows You on Twitter?
I was recently talking with a personal branding client who’s new to Twitter. He’s an expert in a small but growing industry that involves monitoring and outing certain extremists and they don’t like it, to put it mildly. Death threats are not uncommon and other kinds of harassment are to be expected.
One of the …
Legitimizing Your Lackluster LinkedIn
Over the last few years LinkedIn has evolved to play a central role in professional networking and relationship building. I’ve come to find it very disappointing when I see a profile that looks like it was thrown together in 20 minutes, doesn’t have much thought put in to it, or is clearly overdue for an …
Personal Branding Interview: Julie Jansen
Today, I spoke to Julie Jansen, who is a speaker, author, facilitator, trainer, coach, and business consultant to Fortune 500, privately held companies and nonprofits. Her books include I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This (2nd edition), and You Want Me To Work With Who?, both published by Penguin. In …
I Would Rather Shoot at Fish in a Barrel
This is not a new idea but I think it needs reinforcement in the world of personal branding. The idea is the concept of location based social networking and small being the new BIG.
Chris Brogan has a post that further enforces my idea that SMALL is the new BIG in Social Media. His post …