3 Ways to Keep Your Job Search Healthy This Holiday
Fresh off the hottest sales of the season and with shopping in full swing for the holidays, it’s nearly impossible to enter a store without seeing a Salvation Army volunteer ringing that familiar bell asking for a donation. If you’re on the job market, this year might be tough to donate extra dollars however, you …
Build Your Brand By Writing A Book That Inspires Readers
Successfully writing a book to build your personal brand involves more than communicating helpful, relevant information; you book also has to inspire your readers to act.
Your book, and your brand, must encourage readers to take action – and continue to take action – until they have solved their problem or achieve their goal. Your …
Not an Emoticon: Emotion
You may be thumbs up when it comes to flashing a smiley face or any of the canned emoticons that functionally do nothing for your personal brand image. Emoticons are the equivalent of wearing the same dress or jacket everyone wears. My mother who was a fashion designer had an expression for that: “You see …
How to Build a Potent Brand? (Six Clues)
It’s just not enough to be brilliant. People must know and remember that you are. Let’s face it, walking around feeling complacent and entitled because you know you’re brilliant is not a viable strategy, right? So if you want to be known, remembered and recognized, it’s critical you build a brand that not only positions …
The 8 Enemies to Success
Negativity can not be ignored. Just because someone points out that there is something amiss, doesn’t make that person a negative person. When someone says, “Our healthcare system is broken,” that is not being negative. It’s an opinion where one is stating the facts as he or she sees it. When a person says, “There …
Houston … We Have A Problem
“Houston … We have a problem.”
These famous or infamous words were said over three decades ago and close to a million miles away. On April 13th, 1970, James Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, uttered these words following an explosion in the ship’s oxygen tanks. His journey to the surface of the moon was over. …
Brand-building in 18 Minutes – Lessons from TED.com
If you’re interested in writing and marketing a book to build your personal brand, you should spend a little time each week at www.TED.com. There are over 700 free videos you can watch, analyze, and learn from.
The lessons you can learn at TED.com can help you become a better writer and presenter, essential skills …
Are You Collecting the Honey?
Have you ever watched bees gathering honey?
Putting the work forthIn order to see sweet signs of success in your near future, honestly ask yourself if you are putting the work in to collect the honey? The idea came to me today as I admired the colony of bees undisturbed doing their magic on …
6 Ways to Stay Current in Your Field and Advance
Everyone wants to be able to advance their career, but oftentimes it’s difficult to dedicate large chunks of your time to learning new things or checking out new tools in your field.
Practices to doThere are definitely a lot of different ways to keep up, but below are six that everyone should aim to …
Personal Brands: Here’s Why You Exist
What does it take for a personal brand – or any brand – to exist in the hearts and minds of your audience or target market?
Attention
Emotion
Memory
That’s it. That’s the big secret. That’s personal branding in three words.
Let’s tackle the first part of the personal brand equation: attention. You can’t be …