How to Overcome Challenges at Work
No matter how prepared or organized you are, obstacles will always come along your way and force you to get out of your comfort zone and do something to solve them. When you face a challenge, the first thing you need to do is to stop and take a deep breath so you can think …
Beat Stress and Be a Happier Person
Many things in your life can cause your stress levels increase. Especially unexpected events at work or in your personal life make changes in your body and when your body try to make adjustments, stress happens. Unfortunately, stress has many side effects such as upset stomach, headache, exhaustion, sleeping problems and many more. Although some …
How to Make Your Customers Feel Valued
When your customers feel valued, they stay loyal to your business. Loyal customers also help you get new customers by telling about your business to their friends and coworkers. They do free word of mouth marketing for you and as a result, your business grows. Therefore, you need to value your customers and make them …
Phrases to Avoid at Work
The choice of words is very important when you are expressing yourself. Especially at work, you need a maintain a positive and can-do attitude. Therefore, you need to be careful when you are conveying your message to your coworkers. Below you can find the phrases to avoid at work in order to prevent the negativity …
Working Without Vacation Drains Your Career
Summer is already here and soon employees will start thinking about vacation. However, according to Glassdoor’s recent study, 54% of Americans only used half of their vacation days during the past 12 months. Only 23% of them used all of their vacation days. Employees do not want to use all of their vacation days because …
Sales Lessons Learned
Selling anything to anyone is a very hard thing to do. Once you get out of your comfort zone and get used to sales, you learn a lot of life lessons. Below you can find 5 of them.
It is the stories that sell: Products don’t sell by themselves. You need to back them up…
Biggest Career Barriers
Everybody has dreams of getting ahead in their careers and become very successful. Nonetheless, this is easier said than done. Everyone will face some challenges and barriers in their careers but the important thing is not to give up and find ways to overcome those barriers. Below are the most common career barriers and how …
10 Challenges that Entrepreneurs Face
Originally published in 2018. Updated in 2025 as part of the Personal Branding Blog relaunch under Brown Brothers Media.
Starting a business means facing hard truths about risk, money, and the sheer uncertainty of building something from nothing. These challenges haven’t changed much over the years; they’ve just become more complex in our connected, always-on …
10 Differences Between a Manager and a Leader
When you get promoted to the role of a manager, unfortunately you don’t automatically become a leader. Although these two words can be used interchangeably, they represent two completely different traits. Being a leader is much different than being a manager. There are important differences between the two and below you can find 10 of …
The Loneliest Generations: Millennials and Gen Z
According to a recently released survey by the healthcare company Cigna, Gen Z is the loneliest generation followed by the millennials. Gen Z has an overall loneliness score of 48.3 and millennials have a score of 45.3. This survey has been conducted with more than 20,000 Americans who are 18 years and older.
The survey …