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Personal Branding Interview: Eric Kuhn

Today, I spoke with Eric Kuhn, who is a new media consultant and journalist.  His current client roster includes both CBS News and the NBA and he also blogs for The Huffington Post.  In this interview, Eric walks us through how he’s been so successful at a young age, the opportunities available in the media …

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How to Create Your Personal Brand — Part 1

My post last Saturday, highlighted how I built my personal brand from scratch and the opportunities that followed. For today’s post, I want to focus on how you can get started building your personal brand so you can receive some awesome opportunities as well.

What’s required to begin building your personal brand?

First, let me …

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30 Personal Branding Experts on Twitter

Below is our select list of personal branding experts to follow on Twitter.

Personal branding expert tweeters: Dan Schawbel, @danschawbel Jacob Share, @jacobshare Katie Konrath, @katiekonrath Jun Loayza, @junloayza Maria Elena Duron, @mariaduron William Arruda, @williamarruda Wendy Marx, @wendymarx Hajj Flemings, @HajjFlemings who runs @BrandCampU Lesley Everett, @LesleyEverett Ola Rynge, @Rynge Jeffrey Blake, @jeffrey_blake Trace…
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Strengthen Your Personal Brand by Leveraging It to Help Others

If choice overload for evening activities was a challenge living in New York City for so many years, I definitely don’t have that problem now that I’m living Florida. For reliably good entertainment, my husband and I find ourselves quite regularly at the Naples Philharmonic, five minutes from home and with a great track record …

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How to be Popular on Social Media

Have you ever read the book How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot? (Probably not, because it’s a young adult novel written for 12-14 year-old girls, who probably don’t read this blog.) I read it this weekend as research for another project I’m working on, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the book.…

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Should Personal Branding Take a Page from Celebrity Branding?

I live and work in Los Angeles, the capital of “The Star System”. Yes, it’s true – the method of creating and promoting stars in Hollywood used to be known “The Star System”.   It started with the movie studios in the 1920s and 30s.  Studios would select talented actors and create roles for them, complete …

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Personal Branding Interview: Wendy Gelberg

Today, I spoke with Wendy Gelberg, who is the author of The Successful Introvert.  In this interview, Wendy talks to us about introverts, how technology helps introverts become more extroverted, the difference between introverts and extroverts, the pros and cons of being introverted in the work place and various strategies that can help introverts become …

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It’s Not Enough to Just be a Better Mousetrap

There’s a saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson that many innovators like: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

We love it because the saying implies an invention or fresh idea simply needs to be better than what’s already out there to be successful. All we need to do …