7 Personal Branding Predictions for 2011
Every year, since 2007, I’ve made some personal branding predictions for the following year. In 2007, I predicted that we would see a surge in freelancers, which was accurate because 30% of all Americans are free agents now. I also mentioned that our education systems would start teaching classes around the new tools and web …
Make Your Personal Brand Stand Out From The Competition
Here are a 3 simple ways you can make your personal brand stand out from your competition:
Be helpful. Be brief. Be consistent.Helpful, brief, and consistent will serve you well, whether you’re writing an article, a book, an e-mail, preparing a podcast, or delivering a speech.
Helpful (because it’s not about you)Success is …
My Foreward for 30-Minute Social Media Marketing
Below is the foreward that I wrote for Susan Gunelius’s new book, 30-Minute Social Media Marketing: Step-by-step Techniques to Spread the Word About Your Business (McGraw-Hill). She has also released a free bonus chapter that can’t be found in her book.
ForewardRight now, your competitors are using social media tools to advance their personal …
How to Make Your Personal Branding Messages Resonate
The best way to ensure your personal branding message gets through to your clients, co-workers, and prospects is to fully engage them, so that your ideas resonate – or are in perfect sync – with them.
Resonate is also the title of a new book from Nancy Duarte, Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences.…
Real-Time Personal Branding
The pace of communication is speeding up every single day, with billions of pieces of content being produced, more people connecting through social networks, and consumers wanting to interact with brands online. There’s no doubt that you have to be on social networks now, if you want to be found, hired, and grow your business. …
Visual Thinking for Personal Branding Success
Visual thinking is a strategic tool that can make a major contribution to the personal branding success of anyone who has to plan ahead, make decisions, or convince others.
Visual thinking involves more than simply choosing colors and typefaces that project the right image; visual thinking is also a collaboration tool that helps individuals and …
7 Memorable Out of the Box Ways To Stand Out
Personal branding inspiration you won’t likely forget any time soon.
1) Do something amazing with a basic, everyday object
Most people’s yoyo skills are limited to making one go up and down, if they can even do that, which makes Jensen Kimmitt all the more impressive.
One of the things I love about this clip …
What’s In A Name? The Big “O”
When someone says The Big “O” it can have many different meanings depending on where in the country you live, what you spend your days doing and where your mind is at the moment. Hey, keep it clean folks, this is a personal branding blog not a, well, you know. (wink, wink)
For those of …
The Difference Between Being Inspired and Living Inspired
Sometimes it is nice to step away from social media marketing. I am going to do that today.
Many of us are extremely busy. We get caught up in the everyday occurrences in life and ignore the things that are truly important to us. Well.. maybe I am just talking to myself (which is completely …
Are You Lucky or Actually Good?
Through the years, I have always heard, “You are SO lucky, you are able to get whatever you want!”
It’s true I am able to get almost whatever I want, and although I laugh when I hear the frequently repeated remark, on a deeper level it’s almost insulting. The key to getting what you want …