Look for Patterns in the Choices You’ve Made
Consider the dozens of life and career choices you’ve made over the years. Try to remember how and why you make those choices. What were you expecting at the time? How did the reality match up with your expectations? Did the choice of school, career, job, or spouse worked out better than you dreamed – …
Create A Reason To Buy Your Personal Brand’s Product
A unique selling proposition or USP is a key ingredient to attracting an interested audience for your brand’s products or services. Once you capture their attention in a compelling way it is much easier to convert your leads into sales. Reaching the right audience with a message specific to your business is the key to …
The Secret to Maintaining Week-Long Productivity
Our job is important. It’s how most of us put food in our belly and Louboutins on our feet. It’s where we spend one-third of our entire lives. It’s even where one in five of us will meet the person we marry.
Yet too many of us arrive stressed on Monday and leave exhausted by …
Here’s How to Get a Job with BANG
BANG is not what you think! BANG is an acronym that stands for Barnes And Noble Group. It’s a job search networking group that was started over ten years ago at a time I was in transition. One day, at a job search networking group meeting, I was approached by another job seeker asking me …
Maintain Balance for Positive Results
Work life balance is the typical thought heard, but this just refers to the hours put in. Examining business further brings about many areas in which balance may take place.
Some of the differing areas to consider:
Cultural differences and experiences Technical versus creative ideas Senior versus junior generationsTeamwork within companies is vital to …
Building Your First Website: Why You Should Hire a Developer
As any successful entrepreneur understands, the key to carving out an existence in today’s market means generating interest and gaining exposure for your new product or service. While this can be achieved in a variety of ways, new startups and established companies alike are turning to the internet in order to market themselves through their …
Ways to Use Holiday Season to Your Advantage
You can always develop your career if you really want and believe it or not holidays are perfect for it. During holiday season, it is easier to get in touch with people because you have a perfectly valid reason for it. Therefore, it is up to you to use this excuse and advance your career. …
Business Card for People In-Transition
In America, if you don’t have a business card, you’re a nobody. And nobody likes to be a nobody. I’ve been using that catchy phrase for years because I want people to remember the importance of having a business card—especially when in transition. Why so? Because more than ever, those in transition absolutely have to …
7 Must Follow Holiday Marketing Tips
Tis the season for Starbucks red cups, Coca Cola polar bears, the majestic Clydesdales, and more. The holidays are a marketer’s dream come true. If you play your cards right, Q4 can be incredibly profitable for you and your business.
1. Don’t make assumptions.Don’t just assume that your customers delight upon hearing Christmas greetings. …
Can You Go Home Again?
An interesting effect of the changing business landscape has been a change in the attitude toward departed employees. In the past, many companies treated those who’d left (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) as pariahs, traitors, or losers. Today, they’re generally considered a pool of potentially desirable rehires. After all, if you leave Company A for a …