Category: Lifestyle & Habit Building

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“Give Me Freedom…” Should Your Brand Include Political Standing?

There are a lot of things that don’t mix well with your career. One of the obvious ones is religion. But what about politics?

Do you talk about politics at work? In your blog posts? On Twitter or Facebook? This is linking your personal brand with a political standing – and can be a quick …

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Social Networking Late Arrivals are Costly and Not Fashionable

Though many businesses have happily joined in the social media bandwagon, some others have not really bought into it yet and are still deciding whether to start their online campaign. These businesses are the ones who still rely on traditional and other “established” forms of marketing, and they’re most likely waiting for this new type …

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Three Reasons To Have A Personal Brand Advocate

In a recent article on Social Media Examiner, Phil Mershon asked the questions:

What would you say if you could add five, ten, 100 or 1000 marketing reps to your team? For free?

What if these marketing reps would freely write about your brand and tell their friends, and all they expect in return is …

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BeKnown To Be Found – A Monstrous New App

There is a “New Kid on the Block” in the tremendously popular and widely used professional networking arena. That “New Kid,” who has the potential of soon being the “BIG Kid on the Block,” is a new application known as “BeKnown,” released June 25th by giant online job hunting site Monster.com.

The application has been …

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Your Communication Style Hinders or Greatly Increases Your Success

What are you really saying?

We have all done it on occasion and it’s a bad habit that should be avoided in the future. The habit is subliminally delivering a message that touches upon a sensitive subject. We don’t want to confront another or tell them they are wrong. So when an opportunity presents itself …

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Battle of the Sexes: Who’s Net Works?

A recent study by LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 100 million members worldwide, surprisingly revealed that men are savvier online networkers than women. Two things determined “savviness”: the ratio of connections that men have to connections that women have, and the ratio of male members on LinkedIn to female members.

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Act Better, Live Better

On Thursday, the Screen Actors Guild Foundation is producing the grand finale of a four-part series on personal branding. After months of smart people sharing wise words about blogs, social media and other tactics to network with employers (in this case: casting directors, producers, directors and development executives), about 200 people are gathering in the …