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! …
5 Ways to Destroy Your Personal Brand
Building a strong personal brand also means avoiding the mistakes that can ruin a personal brand. Here are 5 kinds of mistakes that could cost your personal brand dearly.
Personal branding mistakes I hope you never make1) Lying on your resume
You’ve heard it before and I’ll say it again. Whether to embellish your …
Top 5 Personal Branding Tips for Recent Graduates
I know a lot of graduates who are very concerned with their chances as nabbing a job when they graduate. I decided to write a post to help guide you to the promise land, give you a load of confidence and hope, as well as point you in the right direction. Getting a job after …
Quoted in the Boston Globe on Branded Business Cards
I typically don’t blog about the press I get (although I include it in the press section of this blog) and I don’t “re-blog” any articles that I have published in magazines often. Remember that too much self-promotion turns people off and I don’t want to be branded as some golden child (as Michael Port …
Online Reputation Management 2.0 and Our Mobile Future
Today, on Facebook I was asked to post my contribution to PRWeek because paid subscription is required. Note that the title they gave it was “Controlling your reputation is vital,” which isn’t as strong as the title for this post. Being you are my audience and should get special privileges, below is the article I …
Personal Branding News: July Roundup Part 1
So far this month, there has been some very impressive articles relating to Personal Branding. I’ve taken the liberty to capture this news in one post to share with all of you. It also goes to show that Personal Branding reaches out to multiple topics and affects various audiences at once.
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The Golden Age …