Personal Branding Interview: Starr Hall
Today, I spoke to Starr Hall, who is a public relations expert and author of Get Connected: The Social Networking Toolkit For Business. In this interview, Starr points out the top things that people looking for a job in PR should know, explains that not all publicity is good publicity, gives different ways you can …
7 Habits of the Successfully Published, Part 6: Modelers
Successful published authors often model their success on the successes of other authors. They don’t they don’t model to copy or plagiarize, they model so they can understand the ideas and techniques that are working for other authors–or has worked in the past–so they can adapt the lessons to their own current situation.
Why reinvent …
30 More Personal Branding Experts on Twitter
After the success of my first list of personal branding experts to follow on Twitter, here’s the followup:
Nance Rosen, @nancerosen Mohammed Al-Taee, @maltaee Harp Arora, @harparora Jan Melnik, @janmelnik Catherine Kaputa, @CatherineKaputa Cindy Kraft, @CFOCoach Deb Dib, @CEOCoach Gayle Howard, @GayleHoward Andy Robinson, @AndyInNaples Jason Alba, @jasonalba Jann Watt, @jannwatt Kim Batson, @CIO_Coach Krishna…Personal Branding Interview: George Foreman
Today, I spoke to George Foreman, who is a former two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, the face of The George Foreman Grill and a New York Times bestselling author. In this interview, George goes over his entrepreneurial journey, with sound advice that he’s experienced from both his boxing career and his business ventures.
How did…Building Relationships Organically – Part 1
When we don’t need anything and simply interact with the people around us—with the other students in our classroom, the other players on our sports team, the other professionals in our office, our neighbors next door—we build relationships organically. Proximity leads to conversation and shared experiences, which brings us closer and leads to more conversation …
Personal Branding Interview: John Baldoni
Today, I spoke to John Baldoni, who is the author of Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up and is a leadership consultant, coach, and speaker. In this interview, John explains how you can lead your boss in a hierarchical organization, why leadership is important in a bad economy, some tips to influence …
Break Out of the Social Media Prison
This is a direct response to Carlos Miceli’s post on Owl Sparks: Prison, Fear, and Personal Branding
You know that feeling you have when you first meet someone? It’s that feeling that you have to put your best foot forward so that you can make the best first impression. We have this feeling at networking …
Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Brusilovsky
Today, I spoke to Daniel Brusilovsky, who is a 16-year-old media producer, entrepreneur, student CEO and writer for TechCrunch. In this short but sweet interview, Daniel tells us how he got started as an entrepreneur, how he’s gotten certain dream opportunities in the tech space, and some recommendations for young professionals.
Daniel, how did you…It’s Not Who You Are, It’s What You Mean
If you’re trying to sell yourself on your stats: as a bundle of skills and experience, you’re going to lose out to competitors who know what they mean and are promoting that to employers and prospects.
The goal of your personal brand effort has got to answer this one question: what do you mean to …
Top 10 Rules for Having a Strong Personal Brand
Sometimes on Twitter (@DanSchawbel) I get into rants when ideas or thoughts come into my head. The other night, I tweeted a list of ten rules. I didn’t even bother saying what they pertain to, but from the tweets it was apparent that they had to do with how to be successful. From my viewpoint, …