The “Music-Resume” Approach to Personal Branding
In mid-July, I was being smothered by the metaphorical unemployment mosh-pit at this summer’s hottest event for recent graduates: The Post-College Job Search. It’s a chaotic cluster of potential employees scrambling atop one another in hopes of landing a career launching entry-level position. It’s claustrophobic. There’s pandemonium. You might get stepped on if …
My Personal Branding Journey Part 9: Maintaining Your Brand
This is the ninth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
About a year ago, I received an email from someone who had commented on a post of mine on a series about postcollege depression. …
My Personal Branding Journey Part 7: Strategies for Creating an Online Presence
This is the seventh of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
Whenever I get a notification that someone is following me on Twitter, I visit their profile and take a look at their website. If …
My Personal Branding Story Part 5: Becoming a Renaissance Worker
This is the fifth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
In my last post, I introduced the concept of a Renaissance Worker and how I came to see this term as a way to …
How to Avoid the 11 Biggest Mistakes of First-Time Authors
Writing, books, and personal branding go hand in hand. When you know how to write, and you use that power to write and promote a book, you can change your life, especially as a first-time author.
Writing and promoting a book opens windows of opportunity–opportunities that would never otherwise show up. As a published author, …
My Personal Branding Story Part 4: I am a Renaissance Worker
This is the fourth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
Over 500 years ago, a new vision of human beings began to emerge during the Renaissance period that “considered man empowered, limitless in his …
My Personal Branding Story Part 3: Passion is Not Enough
This is the third of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
“What are you passionate about?” I am sure there’s a post on every single career website that focuses on this topic. And for good …
My Personal Branding Story Part 2 – Discovering Your Brand
This is the second of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
Sometimes all it takes is a small and seemingly inconsequential event to make a major impact that springs you into action. In my first …
Blue Collar Personal Branding
Recently, I’ve heard chatter that promoting yourself online and building your personal brand is something only for high profile positions. Or, it’s for jobs and careers that are in marketing, PR or media relations. Honestly, I think this is true in mainstream.
Some high profile personal brands include:
CEO’s – Tony Hirsch, Richard Branson Marketers…Tweeting About Being Fired From the New Yorker; Why Journalists Should Take Charge of Their Personal Brand
All in all, last Friday was probably a good day for Dan Baum.
The former New Yorker staff writer’s decision to use Twitter to chronicle his unwilling exit from the magazine in 2007 has generated quite a bit of buzz and attracted a few hundred followers to his account.
At 1:46pm on May 8, Baum …