So You Want People to Read Your Email? A Lesson in Email Branding
I receive a lot of spam mail, as well as email messages from those who are clueless about personal branding. The strange thing is that I get more spam on this blog than my email. I just read “Akismet has protected your site from 36,927 spam comments.” Isn’t that just absurd? Don’t people know that …
The Internet Holds Your Personal Brands’ Permanent Record
Your brand cannot hide from Google (The Cover Story of Personal Branding Magazine last month). Every move you make online is kept in search engines and the only one’s that can be removed are those that you create yourself. Your blog, website, LinkedIn profile, Facebook profile, Twitter profile, Ning profile and a few others that …
What We Can Learn About Personal Branding From “The New Guy” Movie
Background on the film
The New Guy is a movie that came out in 2002, during my freshman year of College. Teenager Dizzy Harrison was the laughing stock of his high school, but his “loser” status changes when he lands a prison sentence and his inmate (Eddie Griffin) gives him a crash course in …
Research Report: Top 25 Most Wanted Personal Brands of 2008
I’ve spoken about how there is an economic recession and how there were 70,000 job cuts in January, which is the most since March of 2003. Well, I have good news for the personal brands that are in demand by companies.
Jobfox has released their “Top 25 Most Wanted U.S. Professions” listing, and was nice …
Weekend Reading: Getting from College to Career by Lindsey Pollak
As I say, the time when you should be paying the most attention to your personal brand is in college. During college you are given the most amount of choices and the highest degree of education before you enter “the real world.” Choices, such as what major and minor you want to enlist in, as …
Personal Branding is About Dedication
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Note: I have 14 other podcasts on my YouTube channel.
I shot this video when I came home from work. It takes me so much less time to do a podcast, rather than to do a full fledged written post. I also like to switch up how I deliver content, to make things more …
Name Brands Have a Clear Advantage When Developing eBrands
Everyone starts out as a commodity until they discover their personal brand. A commodity is something that has no differentiating qualities that separate it from others. For people this means that you are just like everyone else. When your first starting off, it’s very hard to breakthrough. Who is going to link to your site, …
The Branding Galaxy: Product, Corporate, eBrand, Professional, Personal, Social, and Employment
Brands were originally developed as labels of ownership: name, term, design, symbol (Wikipedia). Branding is the art of developing brands, which sounds simple, but if you have noticed, it’s evolved quite a bit this century. No longer are we just concerned about product brands, which are items we purchase either for need or luxury. Corporate …
The Fine Line Between Saving Face and Authenticity for Your Personal Brand
Authenticity is one of the foremost buzz words in the personal branding world. It means being true to yourself and those around you by displaying the real you, instead of managing your image. Image management is about constant manipulation to position yourself as favorable in various situations. My feelings are that in the short-term you …
Call for Submissions for Personal Branding Magazine Issue 4: Due March 15th
Hurry up! I’m only accepting submissions for Personal Branding Magazine Issue 4 from now till March 15th. For this issue, I’m only accepting a total of 10 articles from outside sources. The other 12 will be content produced by our regular columnists. Due to the high volume of articles I receive, not every article will …