Nombray Offers a Solution to Unify Your Web Presence
Many of you are flustered with your web presence right now and are trying to make sense of it, as well as manage it. The problem is that it’s hard for people to understand your personal brand, when it’s scattered throughout the web.
A first impression on the web is equal to the website someone …
Personal Branding Pitch Thanksgiving Contest
As a brand, you need to learn how to sell yourself persuasively and with haste, when communicating your message to others. Aside from being in an elevatar, you may have to pitch yourself during an interview, at a networking event, to someone at work and in other situations, possibly concerning the media. If you fail …
What Sacrifices Have You Made For Your Personal Brand Lately?
Tonight, I went to dinner with a few good friends, such as Ryan Healy of BrazenCareerist.com fame, as well as my first and retired editor of Personal Branding Magazine, Rebecca “Modite” Thorman, and the ever popular Carla Blumenthal. Right now I’m sitting in my chair half asleep, speaking to this girl interest, who just passed …
Exclusive Interview with NY Times Bestselling Author Dan Ariely
Today, I spoke with Dan Ariely, who is a professor at MIT and Duke University, as well as a New York Times bestselling author. This made for a very interesting interview and it’s in both podcast and written form below. You will learn about some of the irrational behavior we do on a reoccuring basis …
Quoted in the Boston Globe on Branded Business Cards
I typically don’t blog about the press I get (although I include it in the press section of this blog) and I don’t “re-blog” any articles that I have published in magazines often. Remember that too much self-promotion turns people off and I don’t want to be branded as some golden child (as Michael Port …
Get Your Commodity Pizza Box Here – No Brand Name Included
Selecting a pizza place
When it comes to deciding where to eat pizza, there are two things that happen:
1) People will make a quick decision based on what’s available at the time or what they are near. For example, if I’m driving on the main street of Waltham and get hungry, I probably won’t …
How to Backup and Protect Your Personal Brand
Each and every day, you are creating and managing more and more information. From your Google Reader and Email accounts, to sending and receiving files and of course to blogging about your experiences. The question isn’t how much information you create, but rather if it’s protected and secure. The information you store electronically is the …
Does Your Personal Brand Resemble a Celebrity?
During college, a lot of people thought my personal brand resembled that of Mario Lopez. As we all know, Mario Lopez was on the hit TV series “Saved by the Bell” as A.C. Slater. Lopez is currently hosting the MTV reality show America’s Best Dance Crew. This visual association typically came from girls or others …
Every Company Needs a Director of First Impressions
Since people are the face of the company, there must be an emphasis on each person who represents the corporate brand. Sure everyone needs to understand the corporate message and culture in order to be successful at their job, but what about the receptionist? When a customer, potential customer, partner or stockholder ventures to the …
Breaking News: Facebook Chat (IM) Goes Live
Typically, I leave breaking news about social networks to my peers. Nick O’Neill is world renowned for covering this space (Update – Nick found out about this 3 weeks ago), so I hope he doesn’t mind. I went into my Facebook account tonight and saw that the IM functionality was already in place. I asked …