Comparing The Perfect Option to The Best Option
Can you afford perfection? Do you need to?
I was talking with someone the other day and they said the following: Too many people want to hold out for The Perfect Option and they never finish. Instead they should be focusing on The Best Option. Where they can get something done and move on to …
Focus on Branding YOU… Not Your Company
Branding yourself as an individual, or branding your company, can feel like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of great ways you can start growing a brand, even if you aren’t sure where to start or you haven’t done it before.
It’s often easier to brand yourself as opposed …
3 Powerful Habits To Supercharge Your Career
Great, you found a career that you love. Now what?
If you’re like most ambitious people, you realize that even after you work for years to accomplish something, the road to mastery is still long and winding. Especially when it comes to mastery in your career.
So how do you continue to overcome the inevitable …
Visual Clues Indicate Future Business
Seasoned sales professional literally look at the entire picture in order to appropriately build the relationship, build business possibilities, and finally, secure the sale. The clues exist everywhere, but the two most important areas are found when sitting in front of a prospective client, and in their office. Should it be a larger company, clues …
Take The Long Way Home – Here’s Why
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’re probably going to get what you’ve always gotten. Job seekers and other people with vision or ambition can’t afford to waste a moment of their travels. Even the ordinary commute can be changed-up to increase the potential for a positively life-changing connection.
Two little rules: Take …
Personal Branding Weekly – Live from #OneCon
This week I’m out with Constant Contact and Alignable at #OneCon.
See you next week!
Here’s the great tips and thoughts our authors shared last week that you might have missed. Please take a moment to review these.
Be Prepared for Job or Company Changes (But Not Worried) by Debra Benton Michelle Phan: Branding…Getting Your Foot in the Door: 3 Strategies to Break Into a New Career
Most working professionals have considered trying something different as a career. However, many are unable to successfully switch into a new career path because they lack key insight into the tactics that will get them noticed by hiring managers who can facilitate a significant career move.
Instead of going about their job search as they …
Can We Improve Our Decisions and Control Our Future?
Wouldn’t it be great if you could predict your future and make all the right choices? Better decisions would ultimately make you happy later and make your life much more trouble-free. Research in behavioral economics shows that most people make choices about how they imagine events will be. These decisions are based on our perspective …
Attract Targeted Prospects to Your Personal Brand’s Website
A branded landing page and blog is just the start to building a great audience for your personal brand. Once a visitor comes to your website you need to capture their attention in order to convert these leads into sales. If you are not reaching the right audience it is like funneling traffic into a …
Networking just to Network does NOT make Sense
Why do you show up for social events? Peer pressure, because your boss or friend told you to, or just because there was an event. If you answered yes to any of these you may be doing it wrong.
Networking for the sake of networking does not make sense. Going to events is fine, but …