Your Brand, Work Ethic or Luck?
I know a lot of people who work hard but who haven’t made it big yet. It makes me wonder what truly breeds success: is it work ethic or is it luck?
I listen to Gary Vaynerchuk religiously (@garyvee on Twitter). He talks about hustle and how work ethic is what you need to be …
How To Create Your Personal Brand — Part 3
The first two posts in this series explored how you can begin creating your personal brand through having a few great brainstorm sessions, organizing your thoughts by creating a web, and then showed you how to create your own self-hosted blog with some great how-to videos.
This week’s post will explore how you can begin …
Personal Branding Interview: Scott Kirsner
Today, I spoke with Scott Kirsner, who is a Boston Globe journalist and has just released his third book called Friend, Fans & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age. In this interview, Scott examines the difference between achieving creative success in the 20th and 21st century. He also talks …
Why You Should Update Your Personal Avatar Now
When should you update your personal avatar?
I asked you that question and got some good responses. Combined with some extra insight, here are the reasons why now might be a good time for an avatar update.
7 avatar casesAvatar not achieving branding goals
Is your avatar following the 11 Rules for Best Personal …
Personal Branding Interview: Richard Laermer
Today, I spoke with Richard Laermer, who is the author of five bestselling books including his latest one called 2011: Trendspotting. In this interview, Richard spends a lot of time explaining how public relations has changed, from the early days till now and helps us prepare for the future. He also touches on the different …
Not Getting Traction with Your Personal Brand?
During one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld’s final season, George tells Jerry he’s tired of his name and wants to find a nickname that makes people light up.
“I’m thinking T-Bone,” says George.
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“But there’s no T in your name!” exclaims Jerry.
Not surprisingly, when George …
Personal Branding Interview: Randall Jones
Today, I spoke with Randall Jones, who is the founder of Worth Magazine and author of The Richest Man In Town. In this interview, Randall talks to us about what self-made rich individuals think of personal branding, the strategies they use, how he’s leveraged his brand to interview successful individuals, brand characteristics of the rich …
More on Measuring Your Personal Brand
This is a follow-up post to my post last week: How to Measure Your Personal Brand. Here are some comments from you guys, and what I think about these three topics at the end.
On the meaning of numbers to measure a brand“I DO think that you can measure your personal brand from stats …
Up Your Personal Brand Game
I was reading an article today about the two tech giants Google and Microsoft. The article focused on how Microsoft may be positioning itself to make a play in the highly competitive search marketplace.
Dominance and perseveranceGoogle was referred to as having market dominance. Microsoft was referred to as having perseverance. Clearly, the article …
5 Things I’ve Learned From Making Me 2.0 a Bestseller
As you already know, I launched my first book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, last Tuesday. Aside from this major book launch that was over two years in the making, even before I knew I was going to write the book, there were a lot of others things going on. …