7 Ways to Make Sure Your Book Gets the Cover it Deserves
Every author should be involved with the front and back covers of their books. This is true whether you self-publish your book, or you’re working with a trade publisher.
Authors who fail to be involved with the content and design of the book’s front and rear covers are usually disappointed with the way their covers …
7 Book Title Ideas for Easy to Write Books
Writing a book to build your personal brand is much easier when you select a book title that helps you to plan and write.
The sooner you select a title that provides a easy-to-write approach, or structure, for your book, the sooner you’ll finish your book, so your book can start branding you as an …
Why it Takes More than Information to Write a Brand-Building Book
It takes more than information to write a book that drives your business and builds your personal brand.
Information, by itself, is not enough to write a book that builds your personal brand!
No matter how much you already know about your field, or how much experience you’ve accumulated, writing a book requires more than …
Tips for Saving Time while Building Your Personal Brand
Are you one of the many who use lack of time as a reason to put-off building a personal brand by writing provocative thought leadership articles, books, starting a podcast, frequently updating your blog, or submitting guest posts on other blogs?
If you don’t have the time now, when will you have the time?
Lack …
Make Problem Solving Part of Your Personal Brand
Do you want to get ahead in your career? Then don’t spend all of your time on networking, your appearance, and writing the best emails and Tweets. There’s another important thing that you need to incorporate into your personal brand.
You need to be known as the person who solves problems.
It’s pretty simple, really. …
Personal Branding With The Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger
Overnight success is one of the biggest illusions with your personal brand. Why? Because think of some of the BIGGEST personal brands you can think of.
Perhaps you are thinking some of the cliche names. Oprah. Or Donald Trump. Or Richard Branson.
Or in the new age of personal branding entrepreneurship: Gary Vaynerchuk. Chris Brogan.…
Acing The Interview
No single job hunting skill outranks knowing how to interview successfully. When pilots fly, they step through a rigorous preparation checklist before each take off. Apply the same procedure in landing a job. The choice between a job interview being a picture-perfect three-point touch-down and a gruesome crash-and-burn is totally up to you.
Use Your …
It’s the Little Things, Stupid
I shot a video recently where my first boss said I was “a bit of a mess” out of college. Some people have asked if I was offended by that statement and the answer is absolutely not. For starters, it’s the truth, but – more importantly – if I hadn’t been such a disaster when …
How Guest Posting Builds Your Brand
I’ve been building my personal brand for two years. I’ve tried various methods including social media networking, blogging and regular commenting (my resolution was to comment daily on all popular niche blogs!). While all the three tactics are highly effective (when done properly and thoroughly), per my experience there is nothing as effective for self-branding …
You Can’t Get Anywhere Unless You Start
On the Web recently, I ran across the reminiscence of a senior citizen about his first job as a shelf stocker at a supermarket. “They told me I would get two weeks paid vacation,” he recalls. “I couldn’t wait to find out where they were going to send me. I wasn’t the brightest crayon in …