Blogging Tips for Personal Branding Success
Blogging efficiency should play a key role in your personal branding success strategy.
The basis of a sound personal branding strategy lies in efficiency. From a branding perspective, efficiency is more important than occasional excellence.
“Occasional excellence is not enough; blogging and personal branding success require a process, or system, for delivering consistent performance”
To …
Reading and Personal Branding Success
Although the connection between writing and personal branding success is obvious, the connection between reading and personal branding success is often less clear.
Nevertheless, reading plays an important role in your ability to write.
The more you read, and the more critically you read, the better you’ll able to write the articles, blog posts, books, …
Time Management Tips for Personal Branding Success
Time management plays a key role in your personal branding success.
Time management is even more important than your ability to write the books, blog posts, emails, memos, and proposals, and reports needed to inform, convince, and persuade others!
You can know how to write, but unless you can find the time to write, and …
7 Signs It’s Time to Reinvent Your Personal Brand
Last week, I read Dorie Clark’s Reinventing You with great interest; it’s a relevant book for anyone interested in personal branding success.
Reinventing You, subtitled Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future, Reinventing You offers a step-by-step guide for evaluating your current brand, your career goals, and the branding success strategies that will help you achieve …
Business Fundamentals for Personal Branding Success
Personal brand building and career success require more than charisma, confidence and passion; you need to know the fundamentals of business and financial management.
Regardless whether you’re planning to continue working for others until you have saved enough to start your own business, or you want to start your own business as soon as possible, …
Why Workplace Etiquette Matters
Our 24/7 instant-access virtual world has taken the “person” out of “personal,” especially in the workplace. Until we all turn into robots with hard drives, I suggest we take a breath and slow down long enough to remember that we are all living, breathing people with feelings who get passionate, tired, burned out, excited, worried, …
Evaluate Your Personal Brand Building Progress at Midyear
With July 4th behind us, this week is the perfect time to review your progress achieving your 2013 personal brand building goals and progress.
Evaluation plays an important role in any sound branding strategy; it provides an opportunity to monitor your progress and make changes where appropriate.
Here are some questions to ask yourself as …
Visual Marketing and Personal Branding Success
Visual marketing is an essential and sound strategy for personal branding success.
No matter how competent, confident, and experienced you are in person, or how comfortable you are sharing the story of your personal brand using words, your career depends on your ability to visually communicate your ideas and build your brand using social media.…
Creating Thought Leadership for Personal Branding Success
The strongest personal brands are anchored by published books that establish the author’s thought leadership, or proven expertise, in their field.
Unfortunately, however, authors with subject area expertise often publish their first book too late!
The best time to write and publish a book is before you need it, while you have a secure job …
Using Six Hats Thinking To Build Your Personal Brand
Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats can help you strengthen your personal brand as a valued team member and potential leader, playing an important role during meetings.
Although originally published in 1985, Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats continues to play an important role in creative thinking for leading businesses and governments around the world. …