When Should You Begin to Write Your Book?
One of my most frequently questions about writing a brand-building book is: “What’s the best time for me to begin to write my book?”
The major options include:
I’m going to start now, and get it written as soon as possible. I’m going to wait until I have signed a publishing contract. I’m going to…Using Evernote to Write Your Brand Building Book
More and more, I’m using Evernote as a writing tool during the 4 steps involved in getting published–or self-publishing–a brand-building book: Planning, Writing, Promoting, and Profiting.
Profit from the cloudEvernote is an excellent example of cloud computing, where files are stored online, on remote servers. Evernote users can create and save notes and notebooks …
Writing a Book to Build Your Brand
The biggest challenges new authors face when writing a brand-building book is the need to organize their ideas, followed by the need to track their progress and maintain their enthusiasm.
Here’s a simple, affordable set of low-tech organizing tools that will pay big dividends as you write your first brand-building book…tools that you continue to …
Wisdom from Winnie the Pooh
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions, but in 2011 I resolve to live my life more like Winnie the Pooh. He seems to always be happy, having fun and adventures. I’ve found some important words of wisdom to follow in this coming year, taken from Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, by author A. …
Simplifying Personal Branding for Job Seekers
Terror, anxiety, stress, depression, overwhelm, and a sense of hopelessness permeates the entire process of securing employment. Have you ever considered that job seekers need to master more skills than a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? While CEO’s hire and surround themselves with qualified experts in diverse disciplines, job seekers must master most disciplines …
Make Your Personal Brand Stand Out From The Competition
Here are a 3 simple ways you can make your personal brand stand out from your competition:
Be helpful. Be brief. Be consistent.Helpful, brief, and consistent will serve you well, whether you’re writing an article, a book, an e-mail, preparing a podcast, or delivering a speech.
Helpful (because it’s not about you)Success is …
Secret Weapon of the Job Transition Campaign
The reference portfolio is a powerful tool that deviates from traditional ways of thinking about landing a new job. But the truth is, the reference portfolio may be the most powerful tool you’ll have in your job transition arsenal. Take a moment and grab a few books from your library and look …
Your Online Activity and Personal Brand are Your (Digital) Assets
If you’re reading the Personal Branding Blog, you’re probably like me and spend 8+ hours online each day between work and play. Take a second and think, how many online services did you use today and what did you use them to do? Yesterday, I used 19 online services to create and share information, connect …
Some Personal Branding Brain Food
Recently, I stumbled across Tom Peters’ article The Brand Called You — I pulled out some of my favorite points for this week’s post. If you have not read this article yet, it is an non-negotiable, absolute, must-read! If you have read it, it won’t hurt to read it again — I learn something new …
Top 4 Articles Competitors Use to Outbrand You
Think you can take your personal branding efforts to the next level? My bet is that you can, with a little help from the experts.
Take this Wednesday to read the following posts. Because if you haven’t, your competition has. And they’ll use what they learned to outsmart, outreach and outbrand you.
So read on! …