Network slowly – How To Meet People Without Trying
I hate networking events: they’re overly crowded, people always have an agenda (the need to meet a potential client), and it’s difficult to build a relationship with an individual.
Instead of pursuing networking events, I’ve decided to network slowly and utilize my current network to meet new people. Here’s three ways that I do it …
Personal Branding For A New Comedian
How can a comedian brand himself or herself, in order to win new fans and build a following that will get comedy club owners to book them?
I was asked that question recently by Jennifer Bianchi, a former lawyer turned comedian, who was wondering what she could do to win the attention of more fans.…
Networking For Ever
Would you like to know one of the best yardsticks with which to measure the success of your personal brand? Here it is: the quantity and the quality of your contacts. Since the success of our personal brand and by extension of our career always relies on others – it will be others who will …
How To Email Just About Anyone
Did you know that if you know someone’s name, you can almost certainly email them.
Its true — and A-Players choose to do this all the time.
After all, what would it be worth to you to be able to get into the inbox of your most-desired mentor? Or the game-changing client? Or your future …
Why Fear Leads To Career Fouls
At Pegasus Media World, I publish an author who deals with the silent killer of success:. It’s the stealth nature of fear that makes it so dangerous. You don’t typically recognize the majority of times when the deadliest emotion you can have in business is exactly what’s behind the self-sabotaging actions (or lack of actions) …
How To Get Clients From A Conference Or Trade-show
Over the course of a year, my company spent over $25,000 on conferences and trade-shows. Quite a lot of money for a start-up, but something that we found to be absolutely necessary to generate enterprise-level client leads and expand our pipeline. To see a return on our investment, we would need to generate over $25,000 …
Four Steps To Prepare Yourself For A Career Change
When you want to change careers — to a new field, a new industry or both — your personal brand can feel like a ball and chain weighing you down.
It can seem like your brand does is HURT your plans to change careers, rather than helping you achieve your goals.
But it doesn’t have …
The Power Of Going To The Right Networking Events
Not long ago, I wrote about how if you want to meet the right people in networking, you need to change how you do it. Stop the emphasis on job-hunting events, and turn your focus towards learning events. So, what’s really the benefit to that?
From what I’ve experienced, when you invest your own time …
Four Steps To Finding Or Starting Your Own Tribe
Do you have a tribe? Seth Godin says a tribe is a group of people connected to one another, to a leader, and to an idea.
A tribe is not necessarily a geographic group of people bound together by proximity and family. A tribe can be a group of people centered around a single idea, …
Separation Of Personal And Brand
LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and social networking sites have given you a platform for creating and managing your reputation: your personal brand.
Perhaps that’s not working for your family.
Perhaps they don’t care to read your wonky blog about the political war being waged on contraception, or don’t know why you want them to know …