Category: Lifestyle & Habit Building

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Real Salaries of 2011: What to Expect in 2012

Considering a new career? Before you jump into a new industry or profession, read this. From personal chefs to commercial pilots, corrections officers and celebrity realtors, here’s what they actually made last year.

Personal chefs to plastic surgeons

Allison, a PA-based personal chef, $55,000 Angela, Social Media Manager, $42,000 AnneMarie, Newspaper Reporter, $26,000 Cindy, Elementary …

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Above All Else, Your Personal Brand is a Story

People love stories.

Humans learn most effectively through stories.

Friends are made by sharing stories.

Sales are closed through stories.

You are missing out on the value of your personal brand if it isn’t a story.

Stories are one of the most effective forms of social currency. They build powerful connections between ideas, people and …

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How to Destroy Your Career

Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?

The seven deadly sins of career building:

Laziness

Carelessness

Lying

Stealing

Arrogance

Cynicism

Self-pity

There’s more of course, but that list is a really good start.

Here’s the thing. You never intended for those sins to show up in …

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Google vs. Facebook Mark: Google Loses the Battle

Social media’s space has become so crowded that CNBC now has a Social Media stock analyst whose entire specialty are the social media stocks. Groupon, LinkedIn, Google and the closely watched upcoming Facebook IPO including commentary on its pre-IPO private market performance.

Goliath Google launches +

Google launched it’s own social network, Google+, in July …

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Your Personal Brand is Not About You

Its a personal brand, so it should be all about you, right?

Your accomplishments. Your history. Your personality. Your unique perspective.

Right? Wrong.

If your personal brand is all about you, no one is going to care.

You will be ignored. People will yawn.

Your personal brand needs to answer WHY: Why do they care?…
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The Day The Spotlight Is On You

Many of us grew up in more or less protected environments, surrounded by the love and company of family and neighbors who knew us well. We effortlessly built up a network of friends and schoolmates as we progressed through the educational ranks until the time came to join the workforce. In this scenario, and especially …

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Job Seekers: Enhance Your Brand by Showing Your Skills

The job search isn’t what it used to be. That’s for sure.

In fact, with hundreds of applicants for every job opening, the tactics that yield job offers have changed dramatically.

In part because of the volume and in part because of the competition, job seekers that stand out – job seekers whose personal brands …