Personal Brands: Ugly Entrepreneurs
Making sausage next to a stockyard is prettier than entrepreneurs behave. Often chaotic, angry, distracted by shiny objects, chasing money, yelling at employees – let’s visit with the tribe of ugly entrepreneurs.
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Huntington were all really ugly people. Maybe not in the face but definitely in the way they behaved toward …
Personal Branding Interview: Greg Verdino
Today, I spoke to Greg Verdino, who is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, and the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). In this interview, Greg talks about his new book, macro versus micro marketing, weighs in on the quality versus quantity debate in social media, …
Behavioral Building Blocks For A Credible Brand
Remember that first day at work after college, when you eventually got up the courage to go forage for a cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there stuck on the wall was a handwritten sign reading:
YOUR MOTHER DOESN’T WORK HERE
PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF
You thought to yourself, “Pick up after …
A Cup of Coffee to Your Personalized Email Campaign
At some point over the next year – whether you own a small business, run a website, sell professional services, or are looking to get hired for a gig or full time employment – people you don’t regularly communicate with will be ready to “buy.”
So—when they are ready, will you be top of mind?…
How to Design Contagious Presentation Slides
If you want to learn more about the science of delivering contagious presentations, be sure to download the eBook now and register for the August 19th Science of Presentations webinar.
Anyone who is working on developing a personal brand probably gives a number of presentations and they want people to talk about them. Tweets and …
Branding the Cast of Jersey Shore
What started off as a guilty pleasure has now grown in to a cultural phenomenon. Whether its influence on our culture is positive or negative is still to be determined; however, I must admit that MTV and the cast of Jersey Shore have done a pretty damn good job branding not only the show, but …
10 Ways to Building Your Personal Brand Story
You’re looking to build your personal brand but don’t know where to start. First thing is first. You must first have a story. Your life story, your professional story, whatever story is most relevant to establishing your personal brand.
Chapter 1:
The beginning is where you take the time to define yourself. Where did you …
Personal Branding Interview: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Today, I spoke to Jeffrey Pfeffer, who is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the author of Power: Why Some People Have It—And Others. In this interview, Jeffrey talks about why he wrote a book on power, how to gain power and lose …
Your Book Idea into a Published Brand-Building Book
Writing is the biggest obstacle between ideas and personal brands; unless you take action on your ideas and actually write your article, start your blog, or finish your book, your ideas will never turn into career-enhancing SEO visibility and a brand-building published book.
And, it’s not just writing a book! The ability to take action …
Personal Brands: SEO Yourself
What ARE the right key words – especially, OMG if you are actually talking to someone face-to-face – or at least cell-to-cell? What are you saying – and how clearly are you communicating it online and offline? You get so much good stuff about your online behavior, I want to touch on the you that …