Road to Me 2.0: My First Video Interview For the Book
Recently, I was interviewed by Rick Burnes of Hubspot about my upcoming book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success. As of today, my book is doing very well on pre-orders, ranking #26 on Amazon for job hunting bestsellers, #54 for web marketing and #70 e-commerce. I want to thank everyone for …
David Armano Reveals His Personal Branding Secrets
Today, I spoke with David Armano, who is a well-known blogger and visual expert. He’s best known for his marketing diagrams and speaks at a lot of industry events. I spoke to David about how he’s grown his personal brand, what it takes to become known in a cluttered world and tips he has for …
How to Lay the Brand Foundation for a Consulting Business
Reader question<
“I have recently gone solo and started a consulting business (with a handful of employees)… from a social networking branding perspective (i.e. twitter, blog etc.) should I concentrate on building myself or my company brand. I know the answer is both, but which one first and foremost would you recommend, for example should …
2009 Personal Branding Predictions
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I’m very surprised that no one has posted about their predictions for 2009 yet. I’ve seen a lot of “best of 2008 posts,” but no predictions! One can only assume that you will see a flurry of posts in the next couple of weeks, as thought leaders are trying to make predictions for next …
Nombray Offers a Solution to Unify Your Web Presence
Many of you are flustered with your web presence right now and are trying to make sense of it, as well as manage it. The problem is that it’s hard for people to understand your personal brand, when it’s scattered throughout the web.
A first impression on the web is equal to the website someone …
A Personal Brand is Demolished by Being Selfish Instead of Useful
It is very rare for me to single people out for bad personal branding, especially when I made mistakes when I first entered the blogosphere a few years ago, such as spamming the press/bloggers and leaving self-promotional comments on blogs. Those days are over and by learning from mistakes, it’s helped me teach you how …
Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding [December 2008]
A lot has happened since the last time I posted a “Schawbel Report” on the state of personal branding worldwide. The July edition had some great information on how education is evolving with social media tools, how the workplace is becoming more virtual and reputation management 2.0. I finally got around to doing my 3rd …
By Not Having a Website You Lose Brand Equity Every Second
There are a lot of great personal brands out there that are losing the opportunity to build brand equity in their eBrands (internet properties).
For instance, if you write a guest blog post or an article for an online magazine and don’t have a website, you miss the chance to:
increase the PageRank of your…What Do Your Google Results Say About You?
I spoke with Paul Dunay last night, who is the Global Director of Integrated Marketing at Bearing Point, as well as a B2B technology marketing blogger. During our call, we talked about people’s Google results and what that says about them. Our conversation sparked this post, which deals with identifying your current “Google results” situation …
Become a Career Renegade Instead of Being Depressed at Work
Today, I spoke with Jonathan Fields, who is an author, blogger and much more. He just launched his new blog based on his “Career Renegade” book today, in addition to an incredible new eBook called “The Fire Fly Manifesto.” The purpose of this interview is to inspire you to start doing work you love, instead …