Personal Branding Interview: Kathryn Hall
Today, I spoke to Kathryn Hall, who is an internationally known book publicist, and author of the forthcoming book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden. In this interview, Kathryn talks about her book, things we can learn from nature, how to stay focused and not spread yourself too thin, cleaning up …
Save Your Online and Offline Brands from Yourself
Here at the PersonalBrandingBlog, we provide you with all sorts of tips for creating and maintaining your personal brand. But, we don’t cover often enough what you might have already done wrong and how to fix it.
OnlineTBYP (Think Before You Post)
Because the impact of any single mistake on the Internet is exponential, …
Personal Brands: Ugly Entrepreneurs
Making sausage next to a stockyard is prettier than entrepreneurs behave. Often chaotic, angry, distracted by shiny objects, chasing money, yelling at employees – let’s visit with the tribe of ugly entrepreneurs.
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Huntington were all really ugly people. Maybe not in the face but definitely in the way they behaved toward …
Behavioral Building Blocks For A Credible Brand
Remember that first day at work after college, when you eventually got up the courage to go forage for a cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there stuck on the wall was a handwritten sign reading:
YOUR MOTHER DOESN’T WORK HERE
PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF
You thought to yourself, “Pick up after …
A Cup of Coffee to Your Personalized Email Campaign
At some point over the next year – whether you own a small business, run a website, sell professional services, or are looking to get hired for a gig or full time employment – people you don’t regularly communicate with will be ready to “buy.”
So—when they are ready, will you be top of mind?…
Advance Your Personal Brand and Let Content Persuade
Personal branders know objections and resistance are a part of the personal branding process and there are many great resources that detail strategies for handling objections. Many of these strategies focus on how to handle objections verbally in either face to face encounters or over the phone. There is much less thought leadership on how …
How to Design Contagious Presentation Slides
If you want to learn more about the science of delivering contagious presentations, be sure to download the eBook now and register for the August 19th Science of Presentations webinar.
Anyone who is working on developing a personal brand probably gives a number of presentations and they want people to talk about them. Tweets and …
Personal Branding Interview: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Today, I spoke to Jeffrey Pfeffer, who is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the author of Power: Why Some People Have It—And Others. In this interview, Jeffrey talks about why he wrote a book on power, how to gain power and lose …
Your Book Idea into a Published Brand-Building Book
Writing is the biggest obstacle between ideas and personal brands; unless you take action on your ideas and actually write your article, start your blog, or finish your book, your ideas will never turn into career-enhancing SEO visibility and a brand-building published book.
And, it’s not just writing a book! The ability to take action …
Personal Branding Interview: Darren Hardy
Today, I spoke to Darren Hardy, who is the visionary force behind SUCCESS magazine as its Publisher and Editorial Director. He is the author of The Compound Effect. In this interview, Darren talks about the compound effect of success, why successful people can’t be good at everything, why it’s important to establish a routine, and …