Personal Branding Accelerates Professional Advancement
Smart, strategic personal branding can accelerate professional advancement. There is no getting around it, ignoring its importance, or doing it half heartedly.
What a smart, strategic personal branding plan and blueprint can do is frame what you stand for and how to stand out, get noticed and become credible in your field or community. How …
Cool, Clever Trends Help Personal Branding!
I have been watching, following and studying trends for many years. To see how demographics, events, cycles all intersect, converge and impact our lives in such immediate and long lasting ways is fascinating! The financial and banking collapse at the end of 2008, was a long time in coming, but once it hit it changed …
6 Ways To “Riff” Daily
Artists, musicians, comics, speakers, trainers, athletes, performers all do it-they “RIFF”. That “rapid energetic often improvised verbal or non verbal outpouring especially one that is part of a performance”.
Most of us remember “Riff’s” of great rock, jazz and yes classical musicians, bands and performers, we listen to and are fans of. What we love …
Be Patient-Career Advancement is Progressive!
“Careers used to move themselves. Now, we are responsible for moving our careers in the direction we want them to go”.
There are some fundamental questions that need to be addressed and answered with regard to career advancement.
People want it quickly, immediate gratification, and it just doesn’t work that way. We all have to …
Make a ‘Good’ Difference Be An Influencer
As I continue my adventure, process and journey with social networking both for business and personal, I am intrigued by this designation, of being a “social influencer?” Are you?
This got me off on a thought tangent. Who anointed people as such? What is the criteria people use for qualifying people for this?
People of …
What Color is Your Brand?
Style, swag, vibe, personality..call it what you like but it’s all about how to define yourself, stand out, get noticed and create buzz for yourself and your business.
You don’t have to be famous or outrageous to stand out. In fact, being famous and outrageous has proven to be a liability, as demonstrated by Charlie …
4 Benefits of Having A Radio Show!
I attended and presented a session at our annual Social Media Mashable Day in Miami this year, about “How to Create, Grow and Host a Killer Radio Show”!
The attendees were especially interested in elevating the podcast medium and presenting it as a Radio Show, as I have done.
We have many integrated media and …
Career Transition Is Now A Way of Life!
Like most trends that are fortunate enough to endure, they unfold, evolve and are fluid. They move to different places in their cycles, as they are impacted by the times, consumer behavior and demographic shifts.
Voltaire said it best: “when you rest, you rust”. Being a change agent and advocate for yourself today is an …
6 Signs It’s Time To Change
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
Habits are our greatest asset and can become our worst curse.
We know in order to maintain our personal and professional lives, we need to develop and establish effective, solid and sensible habits, as well as, keeping them …
Go Spark, Sparkle and Hustle!
Regardless of how difficult, challenging and changeable things have become in business, there is a huge surge of inspired entrepreneurship going on now that is amazing. Corporations are even thinking and acting more entrepreneurial.
Small business and entrepreneurship has always been the key driver of economic success, especially in the US. Starting a business used …