Working Without Vacation Drains Your Career
Summer is already here and soon employees will start thinking about vacation. However, according to Glassdoor’s recent study, 54% of Americans only used half of their vacation days during the past 12 months. Only 23% of them used all of their vacation days. Employees do not want to use all of their vacation days because …
Time for a Personal Re-Brand? Here’s What You Need to Know.
The 3 transformative steps every personal brand should follow
It’s no secret to any reader of this blog that an intentional, carefully-managed personal brand is critical to take control of your career in today’s professional landscape. As Mark Schaefer elaborates in his most recent book KNOWN, “You need to be known for SOMETHING in a …
Use Email Segmenting to Improve Your Marketing and Communication
Having a focused email marketing plan is important to have in place for your personal brand in order to best connect with your subscribers. The right message for each list will greatly enhance your leads and sales.
There are several ways that a segmented strategy can work for your brand, which should be well suited …
Tips for Finding a Job in the Hidden Job Market
In the current job market, it’s not unusual for people to be looking for jobs over many months. It’s a very competitive market, and job openings are few. This situation is amplified by the herd mentality whereby people deploy the job search strategies commonly used in the past. For example, asking people about their target …
Sales Lessons Learned
Selling anything to anyone is a very hard thing to do. Once you get out of your comfort zone and get used to sales, you learn a lot of life lessons. Below you can find 5 of them.
It is the stories that sell: Products don’t sell by themselves. You need to back them up…
The Art of Social Media Affecting SEO for Personal Brands
Search engine marketing has changed quite a bit since mobile and voice search have emerged onto the scene, and many brands are left wondering which marketing methods work best to build visibility? Social media is a large influence in the way people look for information, and although this is not measured directly the social signals …
Work Smarter, Not Harder… Today
That old saying of Work Smarter Not Harder is very easy to say.
However, it’s much hard to do.
To Stand Out in Your Career it will take focus, practice, and foresight.
In order to start Working Smarter and Not Harder… Today. You’ll need to brace yourself, prepare yourself, and hold yourself accountable for both …
14 Ideas For Standing Out In Your Online Business
Every smart brand has an online presence today, utilizing some combination of social media, business pages, websites and review sites. But with so much noise at each destination, how can a brand use web tools or its online identity to stand out in a way that attracts clients and customers?
These answers are provided by …
How Do You Know If Your Brand’s Content is Subject To Copyright Laws?
Having great content and images is an important tool for your personal brand to stand out with your audience. The copyright of certain content is also important for your brand to pay attention to in order to avoid any legal disputes.
There are several ways to find out what can be used and which items …
Best Tips for Increasing Your Networking Effectiveness
Becoming unemployed is likely a sudden, unexpected event, and most people do not have the networking skills needed to immediately switch gears and begin efficiently developing job leads. There could be many reasons: feeling uncomfortable with the networking process, not knowing the process, being shy by nature, or never having needed to network in the …