Success Story: How Bernard Lachance’s Creative Personal Branding Got Him on Oprah
Bernard Lachance is a French-Canadian singer who had a dream and achieved it with a creative personal branding strategy.
He tells it best:
10 lessons we can learn from Bernard Lachance’s inspirational success<
Believe in yourself<
Bernard had no agent, manager or promoter when he decided to rent the Chicago Theatre for his show. …
How NOT Getting the Job was the Best Thing that Could have Happened
Last week I received that dreaded phone call that comes from the same family line as the tiny envelope university rejection letter:
Ring…. Ring…. Ring….
Me: Stephen! How you doing?
Stephen: Doing great Jun…
Me: Did you get my email? I had an amazing time interviewing with Damon and Jim yesterday. Feeling real …
Personal Branding Interview: Pamela Slim
Today, I spoke with Pamela Slim, who is the author of Escape From Cubicle Nation, a book that just came out today, which is also the name of her blog. In this interview, she discusses a lot of interesting aspects of entrepreneurship. She talks about how not everyone can be an entrepreneur, how entrepreneurship has …
A Simple Networking Meeting Checklist
As a consultant, I am constantly going on informational/networking meetings to convince clients to hire me. Through these experiences, I’ve learned a lot about how to conduct a networking meeting.
Here are six tips I have for managing networking meetings:
Be persistentIt’s not easy, but I get meetings with many CEOs and other executives …
Your Brand, Work Ethic or Luck?
I know a lot of people who work hard but who haven’t made it big yet. It makes me wonder what truly breeds success: is it work ethic or is it luck?
I listen to Gary Vaynerchuk religiously (@garyvee on Twitter). He talks about hustle and how work ethic is what you need to be …
Personal Branding Interview: Scott Kirsner
Today, I spoke with Scott Kirsner, who is a Boston Globe journalist and has just released his third book called Friend, Fans & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age. In this interview, Scott examines the difference between achieving creative success in the 20th and 21st century. He also talks …
Personal Branding Interview: Randall Jones
Today, I spoke with Randall Jones, who is the founder of Worth Magazine and author of The Richest Man In Town. In this interview, Randall talks to us about what self-made rich individuals think of personal branding, the strategies they use, how he’s leveraged his brand to interview successful individuals, brand characteristics of the rich …
Personal Branding Interview: Alexandra Levit
Today, I spoke with Alexandra Levit, who is the author of How’d You Score That Gig?, a columnist for The Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal and a gen-y expert and speaker. Alexandra shares her worst job advice, how people can reinvent themselves in this economy, challenges recent college graduates will have, and more.
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An Audacious Way to Build an Online Brand
Last week, Jamie Varon made waves in the Twitter and Gen Y communities with a career advice post about her last job and a new website to get Twitter to hire her. I caught up with her to talk about what she’s doing to build her online personal brand – and ask how she comes …
Personal Branding is a Real Life Role Playing Game
Personal branding is WoW and Final Fantasy; you just don’t know it yet.
What is your goal when you’re playing a role playing game? Your goal is to level up your character, unlock every secret, find every hidden weapon, beat every boss, and ultimately, beat the game with a 100% completion rating. Your goal requires …