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Are You Ready to Contact Literary Agents with Your Idea for Writing a Nonfiction Book to Build Your Brand and Promote Your Business?

Getting a literary agent to represent you is an essential step toward getting profitably published. Literary agents are necessary to help you get around the “gatekeepers” at most publishers; most publishers won’t even look at unsolicited manuscripts.

A good agent will save you time by knowing which acquisitions editors and publishers are most likely to …

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Distinct or Extinct: 8 Tips to Turn Mundane Projects into WOW Projects That Build Your Brand

Can you remember the last time you completed a “WOW” project? A project you’ll still be bragging and chortling 10 years from now, as Tom Peters would say? If not, rest assured that you can make your work matter – but only if you take proactive steps to make it work for you.

Every assignment…
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Personal Branding Interview: Martin Yate

Today, I spoke to Martin Yate, who is the New York Times bestselling author of the Knock’em Dead series of career books and is now an evangelist for GoSavant, a video-based career training center.  In this interview, Martin gives his top resume and cover letter tips, shares some insight into how he’s built his personal …

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Personal Branding Interview: Gary Vaynerchuk

Today, I spoke to Gary Vaynerchuk, who I also interviewed for the sixth issue of Personal Branding Magazine.  This time, he’s back and his new book, Crush It!, is coming out soon.  I caught up with Gary before his life becomes crazy and asked him questions about his marketing platform, traditional media against new media, …

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How to Find Executives with “Juice” On Twitter

Dan Schawbel recently wrote an absolute must read blog post entitled: Branding by Association is the Single Most Powerful Idea in Personal Branding. He explores, in depth, the idea of “branding by association”, a concept that can propel you towards your goals faster and create more opportunities along the way.

I have used the “branding …

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How to Deal with a Needy Client

If you’re an agency or a consultant, then you’ve faced a needy client one time or another. You know who I’m talking about:

They call you multiple times a week to get updated on what’s going on with the project They frantically feel like the world is ending because they haven’t seen results since last…
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Branding by Association is the Single Most Powerful Idea in Personal Branding

When Katie Konrath, our Sunday Personal Branding blogger, wrote about being connected to important people can build your brand, I smiled.  Possibly without knowing, she had touched on what I believe as the single most powerful and effective way to become more successful.  I actually wanted to write a post about this a long time …

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Personal Branding Interview: Chris Anderson

Today, I spoke to Chris Anderson, who is the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, as well as the New York Times bestselling author of both The Long Tail and Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price.  In this interview, Chris explains (possibly for the first time) the impact of the free economy on branding, …