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Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Pink

Today, I spoke to Daniel Pink, who is the New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and the author of the new book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which arrives in late December.  This is one of his first interviews before his …

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Personal Branding Interview: Josh Mullineaux

Today, I spoke to Josh Mullineaux, who is the Director of Marketing and lead business development manager at Unique Blog Designs.  Josh and his team have helped a lot of big companies and personal brands build their blog platforms, such as Yahoo!, MySpace, ShoeMoney and I.   I’ve been their client for about a year now …

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How Many Pages are Needed for a Brand Building Book?

Are you overestimating the number of pages needed to write a book that successfully builds your personal brand? Many business owners and career-oriented employees who want to write a brand-building book think “too big,” “too comprehensive, and “too many pages.”

Too many brand-oriented individuals think in terms of their college textbooks, comprehensive compilations of every …

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You Speak, I Cry Inside. Personal Branding Never Sleeps.

It’s time to do a mind-sweep, because what you think is gushing out of your mouth and into your texts, tweets, posts, and email. That self-talk you’ve got going is killing your chances to connect with the opportunities that are all around you. Personal branding is a 24/7/365 effort – because if you do it …

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Personal Branding to Prevent Career Suicide

Two days ago I read an article on CNNMonday.com about how many people are afraid that taking a “survival job” to make ends meet now will destroy their career when the economy picks up again.

That’s very understandable.  When you’re forced into a lower-level job than you were currently doing, or find yourself doing a …

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“Twitter #in” — Better Than Peanut Butter And Chocolate?

If you missed it this week, Linkedin added some new functionality this week. Now you can sync up your Linkedin and Twitter profiles to share content you chose with either network.

From the Linkedin blog:

Now you can tweet your LinkedIn status to your Twitter followers or automatically post your tweets as your LinkedIn status.…

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Personal Branding Interview: Scott McGrew

Today, I spoke to Scott McGrew, who has 20 years experience as a television reporter, 10 of them as a technology reporter. His work has been seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and the BBC. He has been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards and reports on technology on the Bay Area’s NBC.  In this interview, Scott …