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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A Secret Personal Branding Tip For MyBlogLog

One of the social networks that I feel is very underutilized and spoken for is MyBlogLog. I’ve been a fan of this network since I started out in the blogosphere back in 2006.   MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo! Inc. and it allows you to create a profile, join communities (blogs), share your social feed (much …

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Personal Branding Interview: Howard Gardner

Today, I spoke with Howard Gardner, who is a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, has authored over twenty books, and is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences.  In this interview, we discussed Howard’s latest book called Five Minds for the Future.  Howard goes over what the five minds are, an example …

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Personal Branding Interview: Lindsey Pollak

Today, I spoke with Lindsey Pollak, who is a good friend of mine and fellow Gen-Y career guru.  She wrote a book called Getting from College to Career and has several columns in big media outlets, in addition to speaking and consulting.  In this interview, Lindsey talks about what she’s learned from speaking to college …

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Road to Me 2.0: 14 Book Marketing Ideas For Authors

As I get ready to launch my first ever book, which is entitled Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success on April 7th, I would like to keep you in the loop with how things are going, while teaching you from my experiences. So far in this series, I told you how …

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Personal Branding Interview: David Meerman Scott

 Today, I spoke to David Meerman Scott, who is about to release his latest book, World Wide Rave.  I’ve spoken to David before in a previous interview that explains much of his position on social media, PR and marketing.  He’s all about publishing information (i.e. blogging, podcasting), instead of paying thousands of dollars to advertise.  …

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Build Your Personal Brand to Become a Celebrity

Scheduling note:  Don’t worry, Jacob Share will be back posting regularly starting next Friday.  I’m filling in for him today and will quench your thirst with this new article ;).

Personal branding is more than just a career development concept and practice.  Powerful and world recognizable brands, such as Oprah, Michael Jordon, Tiger Woods and …

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Personal Branding Interview: Richard Thaler

Today, I spoke with Richard Thaler, who is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.  He also authored the bestselling book Nudge.  Richard talks about what a nudge is, an example of a nudge, how they can help us make better business decisions and how technology fits in the …

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Personal Branding Interview: Larry Winget

Today, I spoke with Larry Winget, who is a four-time New York Times/Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He is a member of the International Speaker Hall Of Fame. He has starred in his own television series and appeared in national television commercials.  In this interview, Larry talks about how passion is irrelevant to success, why …

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Personal Branding Interview: Brian Solis

Today, I spoke with Brian Solis, who is a globally recognized expert on Web 2.0, Social Media, and the new technology landscape.  He is the Principal of FutureWorks and his new book is called “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR” which comes out on …