Writing Your Personal Brand Bio When You Change Careers
How do you redefine yourself professionally when you’ve spent several years getting it down pat the first time?
Timothy Brandt posed that question — sort of — to me and my Branding Yourself co-author Kyle Lacy last week on Twitter.
How can I start my IT bio when I received experiences from business positions?
For …
The Personal Media-Morph…
…I Should Find You in Text, Video, Audio and More
The Internet. Isn’t it grand? So much information. Day and night. In all forms – be it the text of a New York Times article, a “How to Cut Your Own Hair” video on YouTube, or the rumblings of a comedian and celebrity chef on …
7 Tips For Modeling Your 2012 Personal Branding Success
Save time during 2012 by modeling your personal branding success on the ideas, strategies, and tactics of authors and small business owners who have already built strong personal brands.
Avoid the temptation to constantly reinvent the wheel. Look around you for examples of marketing and personal brand building success that you can model and adapt.…
Five Personal Branding Resolutions To Keep In 2012
Well, hell, why not? You’ve made resolutions for everything else so far, why not make resolutions for personal branding next year? Here are five resolutions I wish other marketers, networkers, and social media people would follow. And if you want people to like and respect your personal brand, you’ll at least consider this list of …
8 LinkedIn Secrets That Are Staring You in the Face
LinkedIn is one of those networks that has so much going on that, unless you can devote several hours a week to its use, you’re not really using it to its fullest extent. As a job seeker, here are eight secrets you can use to help find your next job (or the one after that) …
Five Personal Branding Tools Every Job Candidate Needs
If you want to be taken seriously as a job candidate, and stand out as someone who really knows what they’re doing, and that you’re plugged in, you need to have a few personal branding tools.
They’re all easy to get, they’re all inexpensive, if not downright free (except #4; you’re kind of stuck there). …
Your Personal Brand is Not About You
Its a personal brand, so it should be all about you, right?
Your accomplishments. Your history. Your personality. Your unique perspective.
Right? Wrong.
If your personal brand is all about you, no one is going to care.
You will be ignored. People will yawn.
Your personal brand needs to answer WHY: Why do they care?…Three Advanced Personal Branding Techniques
Most of you reading this are beyond the “start a blog, get on Twitter” advice for personal branding. Way beyond it. Hell, if you found this site, you’re already on Twitter, you rock out Facebook, and you know how your Klout score is trending. but still have to look at your license plate to remember …
Occupy Your Brand: Capture The Right Attention
What started in New York as a demonstration against Wall Street has become an international protest movement primarily directed against social and economic inequality. I’ve had the honor of getting up close and personal with protesters in New York, Chicago and Denver – all of whom I found to be non-violent and simply attempting to …
Find Hidden Jobs Never Found on Traditional Job Boards
Quit wasting your time on the traditional job boards. The monstrously big career building boards. If that’s where you’re spending a lot of your job search, thinking that’s where you’re going to find your next job, you’re putting a lot of time and effort into a source with a very low rate of return. If …