Personal Branding Interview: Simon Sinek
Today, I spoke to Simon Sinek, who is the author of Start With WHY, the creator of The Golden Circle, and a popular speaker. In this interview, Simon talks about what the WHY is, why companies need to have a sense of purpose, examples of companies and individuals that have a WHY, advice on finding …
Managing Your Personal Brand Without Going Insane
Managing your online identity is becoming very challenging because multiple social networks are launched each week and we all suffer from information overload. How do you keep up with everything, without losing your sanity? You don’t want to join every new social network, create a profile and start communicating on it because that’s not a …
Personal Branding Interview: Wendy Diamond
Today, I spoke to Wendy Diamond, who is the founder of Animal Fair, the premier lifestyle magazine and author of It’s a Dog’s World. Wendy is a great example of a someone who has positioned herself as a leading expert in her field. In this interview, Wendy talks about how she’s built a successful animal …
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Organize Information
Does this sound familiar?
You read an AWESOME article online and you promised you’d save it somewhere… but you didn’t. So you go to find it… but you can’t… and eventually you just forgot about it altogether.
You’re not alone.
Regardless of where you are on your personal branding journey, true success requires a systematic …
10 Common Book Publishing Myths and Misconceptions
Don’t let the following 10 book publishing myths and misconceptions undermine your confidence and lead you astray when you think about writing a nonfiction book to build your personal brand and expand your career opportunities and/or business profits.
1. I don’t have time to write a bookWho does have time to write a book? …
Personal Branding Tip: Stop Trying to Control Your Employees and Brand
Are you worried your corporate marketing department and lawyers are going to stop you from creating your personal brand? If you are, this post is for you and for the corporate control freaks fighting a fool’s battle.
The marketing department has lost control of the brandWhen I write and talk about personal branding, quite …
Reader Branding Nightmare: Job Search Sabotage?
Yesterday I had a conversation with a job seeker who was very worried about his former boss.
For the past few years, Jim (not his real name) had worked as a programmer in a small, tight-knit part of the IT industry. After the economic crisis hit and clients started tightening budgets, Jim’s company reacted in …
When Worth-Your-While Isn’t Worth-The-While
What goals do you have when it comes to your social media use?
I recently had a fellow blogger, Scot Duke of Mr Business Golf, post a comment in regards to a article I had written regarding trying hard to reach your goals and being persistent in social media. His comment to my post:
Good …
Personal Brand Cookies For Twenty Lucky Job Seekers
One of my good friends and business associates has been testing out a new way to stand out from the crowd. While holding a “Social Branding” event in the Boston area some time ago, Stephen Pazyra, the CEO of 1-800-Bakery.com, showed up with about a hundred cookies with my face and blog address on each. …
Learn From Well Branded Student Meagan Burns
I came across Meagan Burns, a Junior at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, when she followed me on Twitter. After checking out her web presence, I was struck how well she’d successfully hit on the fundamentals of personal branding.
She’s also built a seriously awesome online presence. You should take a page out …