Personal Branding Interview: Vitor Lourenço
Today, I spoke to Vitor Lourenço, who is a 22 year old Product Designer for Twitter. In this interview, we get the inside scoop on what it’s like to work for Twitter, what a typical day is like, how to get a job there, and much more. Vitor really paints the picture for what Twitter …
5 Things You Can Do to Have a Relevant Personal Brand
There are a lot of skills that you should be acquiring and honing right now, such as better writing skills, interpersonal skills and analytical skills. Although each of these skills is generally important for almost everyone, regardless of age and position, there is something more important that people are going to have to focus on …
5 Rules for Maintaining Your Brand Once You Have the Job
You’ve worked hard to build your brand in order to land a job. Now you have a job (yay!), so what happens to your brand? Does it get consumed by your employer, or should you continue to develop it?
1. Devote XX amount of time each week to your brand.Just like before you landed …
6 Time Saving Ways to Write a Brand Building Book
The benefits of writing a book to build your brand by promoting your career and your expertise are well known.
Books like Mitchell Levy’s anthology of author case studies, 42 Rules for Driving Success with Books, and the Wellesley Hill Group’s Business Book Series, an exhaustively-detailed 2-part research report, document the benefits of writing a …
Employee Participation Breeds Recognition
Successful personal branding tactics that existed before social media are often still useful today. Here are some examples from my own career.
Wherever I’ve worked, the personal brand I’ve tried to build is to be known as someone who is:
Professional Helpful Intellectually honest Successful Getting things done Open to Always seeking constructive criticismIn …
Personal Branding Interview: Peter Dunn
Today, I spoke to Peter Dunn, who is an expert financial planner, award-winning comedian and author of 60 Days to Change: A Daily How-To Guide With Actionable Tips for Improving Your Financial Life. In this interview, Peter goes over how he positioned himself in the crowded financial expert market, how he’s blended two very important …
From Identity to Personality. Be Remembered.
“Identity is recognition. Personality is about character and charisma!” – Marc Gobe
If you are involved in the world of building trust through content in the world of social media you understand the concept of building an identity. The foundation of all personal branding initiatives is building recognition through your core group of either prospects …
How Your Personal Brand Handles Multiple Hats
“I have many roles, hats if you will. Does that mean I should have an online profile for each?” asked an attendee at the fifth annual Massachusetts Conference for Women.
This is a great question. In fact, there were 11 great questions that were asked during the Q & A portion of my presentation on …
iPhone Applications For Personal Branding
It fascinates me how powerful information is and how much we have to consume each day to remain current. In fact, if I didn’t peruse the live feed on Facebook a week or so ago (I saw Brian Solis commenting on Jeremiah Owyang’s app), I would be late with this post and might have missed …
Personal Branding with a Punch and Some Cookies
Typically, it’s not the best, but the one who can take the stress and makes it to the top of any company, industry or career path is the person who can take a punch, get past the burn and play injured that makes it to number one. It’s the person who cleans and dresses their …