Business Fundamentals for Personal Branding Success
Personal brand building and career success require more than charisma, confidence and passion; you need to know the fundamentals of business and financial management.
Regardless whether you’re planning to continue working for others until you have saved enough to start your own business, or you want to start your own business as soon as possible, …
Handle Critique to Improve Business
“Do you get offended upon hearing critique?”
The heart of the matter is, our ego is at stake when we hear suggestions for improvement whether we ask for recommendations or not. Diplomacy isn’t the major factor although a friendly tone certainly helps, but it is more about whether we are receptive to the idea of …
Discover 5 Steps to Build Your Brand Out of Nothing
In general, we say your personal brand always exists, whether you know about it or not. That said, when you’re new to the professional world, you get to start out with a relatively clean slate. This gives you the opportunity to build your brand from scratch.
In the beginning, it is essential to shape your …
Personal Brands: Are You An “Is, And, Also?” Ok!
“All the best people are!” That’s what we would have said had we met at an upper crust luncheon still roiling at 4 PM, when too much to drink caused us to wave white wine glasses as we made dramatic, inclusive gestures and generously greeted one another’s secrets. It’s under those country club settings that …
Three Tools to Leverage Your Client’s Brand
Competition is steep in today’s business world. People are constantly bombarded with advertisements, solicitations, and other marketing messages. It pays (literally) to know how to cut through the clutter to make an impact. One of the best ways to outshine the competition and differentiate your personal and/or professional brand is through directly leveraging your clients’ …
What Are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself?
To build a powerful personal brand we must consider three different levels of communication and ensure we are communicating consistently across all three.
The three include:
Self-communication Public communication Private, 1:1 communicationThis week I’m going to focus on self-communication because it is the foundation of everything else.
Self-CommunicationThe most important of all levels …
Personal Branding Weekly – 15 July 2013
Aloha! That’s all I can say when enjoying a week with my husband celebrating our wedding anniversary!
Enjoy!
Imposter Syndrome by Kevin Monahan Differentiation is Easy, Once You Set Your Own Standard by Skip Weisman Three Tips for Handling a Social Media Brand Crisis by Crystal Washington Eliminate the Negative in Your Personal Brand by…Why Workplace Etiquette Matters
Our 24/7 instant-access virtual world has taken the “person” out of “personal,” especially in the workplace. Until we all turn into robots with hard drives, I suggest we take a breath and slow down long enough to remember that we are all living, breathing people with feelings who get passionate, tired, burned out, excited, worried, …
5 New SEO Strategies You Should Be Aware Of From Rich Gorman
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Here are a few new SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies that Rich Gorman sent me that you should use to build your online presence and optimize it for Google:
1. Co-CitationCo-citation, as Rich Gorman explained …
Baby Boomer Personal Branding using Social Media
Are you a baby boomer? Are you using social media to develop and promote your personal brand? Am I speaking gibberish?
I wrote in a previous post that many baby boomers struggle with the concept of personal brand. In the old days it was your reputation. With the rise of the Internet many jobs can …