Has the Word “Humble” Changed From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0?
A lot of people confuse personal branding with shameless self-promotion and for good reason. Personal branding involves letting your audience know that you exist, including your achievements, what you stand for and what you can provide to them. Branding would be ineffective if you just did it for a single day, which is why our …
Personal Branding Interview: Perez Hilton
Today, I spoke to Perez Hilton, who is the founder of the extremely popular gossip blog, perezhilton.com. He’s also a television personality, radio show host, a clothing line, books and has his own record label. I recently featured Perez in my BusinessWeek column, which talks about how he’s expanded his brand into new areas, while …
Personal Branding Interview: Alan Deutschman
Today, I spoke to Alan Deutschman, who writes for Fortune Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair and New York Magazine, while being the author of the new book, Walk the Walk. In this interview, Alan tells us why most aspiring leaders don’t actually become leaders, gives us an example of a leader that walks the walk, authenticity, …
Personal Branding Interview: Ben Huh
Today, I spoke to Ben Huh, who is the CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc., the company behind the hugely popular blogs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog and others. In this short but sweet interview, Ben talks to us about I Can Has Cheezburger?, how he got his book deal, how he marketed his website …
Position Yourself for the Career You Want Not the Job You Have
I prefer the term career over the term job. A job is a single occurrence, while a career is something built over the course of your life. A career is typically made up of many jobs. Sometimes they are interrelated and other times there is no real direction, therefore there are multiple careers leading to …
Personal Branding Interview: Julien Smith
Today, I spoke to Julien Smith, who is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, with Chris Brogan, and one of the first podcasters. Julien talks to us about what a trust agent is, why it’s important in the online world, and then gives some examples of trust agents. He also explains how …
Personal Branding Interview: Richard Sambrook
Today, I spoke to Richard Sambrook, who is the Director of the BBC’s Global News division, responsible for leading the BBC’s international news services across radio, television and new media. In this interview, Richard talks about the future of journalism, how the demographics of his blog readers compare to the BBC’s, international news, personal branding …
Personal Branding Interview: Ryan Paugh
Today, I spoke to Ryan Paugh, who is the co-founder and community manager at Brazen Careerist. Ryan is one of my good friends and I had the pleasure to connect with him close to when I started blogging a few years back. Ryan, along with Penelope Trunk and Ryan Healy (also good friends), have re-launched …
Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding Worldwide [August 2009]
It’s already August and I haven’t done one of my reports this year, which is a shame because I did three last year. The point of each of these reports is to show you trends, insights and a lot of resources which will keep you in tune and up-to-date with the latest happenings in the …
Personal Branding Interview: Peter Bregman
Today, I spoke to Peter Bregman, who is the author of Point B, a consultant and blogger at Harvard Business School Publishing. In this interview, Peter talks to us about leadership in corporations, how people change everyday, not using your gut to make decisions, how to climb the corporate ladder and why failure is a …