Personal Branding Interview: Jim Kukral
Today, I spoke to Jim Kukral, who is a web marketer & business web coach, speaker, long-time award-winning blogger, customer evangelist, writer, online monetization expert, and author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue (Wiley). I contributed personal branding advice to Jim’s new book. …
Personal Branding Interview: Greg Verdino
Today, I spoke to Greg Verdino, who is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, and the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). In this interview, Greg talks about his new book, macro versus micro marketing, weighs in on the quality versus quantity debate in social media, …
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 …
Branding the Cast of Jersey Shore
What started off as a guilty pleasure has now grown in to a cultural phenomenon. Whether its influence on our culture is positive or negative is still to be determined; however, I must admit that MTV and the cast of Jersey Shore have done a pretty damn good job branding not only the show, but …
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 …
Personal Brands: SEO Yourself
What ARE the right key words – especially, OMG if you are actually talking to someone face-to-face – or at least cell-to-cell? What are you saying – and how clearly are you communicating it online and offline? You get so much good stuff about your online behavior, I want to touch on the you that …
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 …
Getting Away with the CEO Swap
So, Tony Hayward is being replaced as CEO of BP by an American. It’s not surprising to see that the company is doing whatever they can to minimize damage and public outcry. I’ve come to find it interesting that when a company gets itself in to serious trouble, that the “CEO Swap” is viewed as …
Facebook Stories and Your Personal Brand
The world is indeed becoming a small place and we all know that social media is a major reason why. As Facebook celebrated 500 million users on July 22, 2010 we can see how the world is becoming a much more open place. Facebook users come from all over the world. People are able to …
Personal Branding Interview: Jeffrey Hayzlett
Today, I spoke to Jeffrey Hayzlett, who is the author of The Mirror Test, and the former Chief Marketing Officer at Kodak. In this interview, Jeffrey talks about his experience with Kodak, what it was like to be on The Apprentice with Donald Trump, what the “mirror test” is and how it can help your …