Author: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) and the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing), which combined have been translated into 15 languages.
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Personal Branding Magazine Issue 11 Seth Godin Interview Preview

For the February issue of Personal Branding Magazine, Seth Godin will grace the cover, with an exclusive and lengthy interview I conducted with him about his new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable. Out of all his bestselling books, this one is the closest related to personal branding because it focuses on becoming indispensable, meaning that …

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Free Sample: Personal Branding Magazine Issue 11 With Seth Godin & Guy Fieri

Personal Branding Magazine – Volume 3, Issue 3 How To Become Indispensable with Seth Godin Summary

Volume 3, Issue 3 is about becoming so important to your company, your customers and the people around you, that they can’t live without you. When that occurs, you’ll be making more money, have better relationships and wield a …

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Personal Branding Interview: Joe Balestrino

Today, I spoke to Joe Balestrino, who is an SEO expert and writer for blogs such as Search Engine Journal. In this interview, Joe explains how companies can be successful without internet marketing, what we could know about with Google real-time search, lists some SEO strategies, mistakes people make when optimizing their sites, and argues …

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Personal Branding Interview: Lisa Hoover

Today, I spoke to Lisa Hoover, who is a freelance writer and professional blogger. Her work includes being a contributing editor for Lifehacker and other major blogs. In this interview, Lisa talks about how to she become a professional blogger, who she admires, how she balances her time with multiple children, and some lessons learned.…

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3 Personal Branding Theses For The New World of Work

1.  The internet has forced everyone to become a marketer.

Gone are the days when only college marketing majors and entrepreneurs had to know how to use marketing to build brands. These days, the internet has enabled everyone with a pulse and some ambition to take advantage of this growing platform.  It’s all about survival …

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Personal Branding Interview: Patricia Hunt Sinacole

Today, I spoke to Patricia Hunt Sinacole, an HR expert who runs First Beacon Group LLC and is also columnist for The Boston Globe. In this interview, Patricia talks about how job seekers can become more employable, what retail marketing strategies work in a job hunt, why companies should limit social media use at work …

In this interview, Pamela Mitchell talks about the process of career reinvention and explains how your career can conflict with your life.
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Personal Branding Interview: Pamela Mitchell

Today, I spoke to Pamela Mitchell, the founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, Inc. (TRI), author of The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy, and columnist for Inc.com.

In this interview, Pamela talks about the process of career reinvention. She also provides examples of those that have made the …

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Personal Branding Interview: Bob Burg

Today I spoke to Bob Burg, who is a highly sought-after speaker and the bestselling author of Endless Referrals, The Go-Giver and his upcoming book Go-Giver’s Sell More, which comes out on February 18th.  In this interview, Bob talks about how to network by giving before receiving, talks about how he was inspired to write …