Defining Your Personal Brand
Before you can create your personal brand, you have to know what your personal brand is. This post will help you to define your own personal brand through taking a look at your unique personal brand attributes. Once you have your personal brand attributes you can begin sharing your personal brand with the world.
Simply…A Visual Guide: Personal Logo Design Tips For Non-Designers
When you’re young, monograms seem nerdy. However, once you’re older and design gets involved, a monogram or personal logo can become critical in making your personal brand memorable.
Use this visual guide to create or improve your own personal logo.
10 ideas to inspire you1. Is there some object or symbol associated with your …
My Personal Branding Story Part 3: Passion is Not Enough
This is the third of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
“What are you passionate about?” I am sure there’s a post on every single career website that focuses on this topic. And for good …
Making the Brand
The personal branding wave is continuing to evolve and develop. Of course, the emergence and popularity of the social web has accelerated the process. Today’s job seeker, as well as those interested in progressing within a company and/or industry, have embraced the process as welcome and necessary.
Many of you are working hard to identify …
Personal Branding that Can Work for Anyone
Like many twentysomethings, I run into the problem of not understanding my personal brand. At times, I don’t know where to start, and I’ve been at this for 3 years.
The truth is most twentysomethings don’t know what they want to do with their lives, which makes it impossible to commit to a single message, …
Don’t Put Off Personal Branding to Focus on Keeping Your Job
Believe it or not, there are actually some people who are taking a not-so-secret delight in the economic recession. Who? Employers.
They’re glorying in the fact that there are so few jobs available that they receive hundreds of applications for a single position. They’re thrilled that they can wring salary concessions out of their employees …
Personal Branding Video | Gary Vaynerchuk
I love this video clip where Gary Vaynerchuk shares how you can crush it through building your personal brand and equity in yourself. It was filmed in November of 2008, but it’s still as relevant as ever — it’s a must watch video if you want to gain some insight on how to get ahead …
Ask the Readers: Surgery to Improve Your Job Search Odds?
How far some people will go to get hired.
Cosmetic and plastic surgery entered the mainstream years ago, but outside the adult and many modeling industries, it’s still rare to hear about people getting “enhanced” specifically for the purpose of finding a job or finding a better job.
Not anymore.
My Twitter friend @shim34 sent …
The Difference Between Being Great at Your Job and Loving Your Job
My friend Jacob currently sells ads for a web 2.0 company. He’s a beast on the phone, relentless with customers, and has the highest client conversion rate out of anyone at his office. He’s darn good at selling, but you know what? He hates it. He walks into work every morning with his head down, …
Personal Brand Taglines
I was researching for a UCLA Extension Marketing Master Class I’m giving in Istanbul in October on Global Branding and International Expansion and came across a subject I thought would be of interest to Personal Brand Blog readers: the brand tagline.
For the class, I’ll be looking at taglines for cities, counties, and countries. But …