Personal Branding Weekly and Networking Word of Mouth
Editor’s Note: Relationships are vital to any of your personal and professional success. Good communication, relationship building skills and basic networking are often lacking. When you can possess those three skill sets, your brand stands out from everyone else and is memorable. How well do you engage your brand?
This past week we covered:
5…A Secret For Dressing Like A C.E.O.
Dressing for success is not just about your attire.
Walk into the office of any CEO and look at his/her desk. You will almost always find a space that is neat and free of clutter. There are a lot of factors that go into being successful. Among them are being well-organized and highly productive.
Unfortunately, …
The Right Question to Ask
The right question is: What value do you / your brand / your company offer the world?
If you are not clear on the value that your brand offers the world, you significantly limit your brand and never fulfill your career’s potential.
But what does it look like to be clear on the value you …
Want to Really Boost Your Brand? Publish in Print
Anyone can start a blog. Anyone can write a guest post. That doesn’t make you a writer, and it doesn’t grant you automatic credibility.
If you want real credibility, credibility that makes people think you know what you’re doing, you need to get published in print.
While many people will argue, there’s “no difference” between …
Personal Brands are Like a Sweet ‘Onion’
Have you ever heard the expression “Culture is like an onion”?
Geert Hofstede, a social psychologist created this explanation of culture. In his view culture is a system that can be peeled, layer by layer, in order to reveal the inner, true content. Imagine the whole onion as ‘culture’ and as you peel on, you …
How Not to Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb
Too often we hear terms in meetings that we don’t understand. Yet, too embarrassed to ask for clarification. Sometimes its okay to stick out like a sore thumb.
Sometimes these are terms that are mentioned by colleagues, managers, vendors and even customers. Not knowing these terms and the context for using them can risk …
Let Your Brand Tell a Story
We often think of branding as a one-time thing. Set up your visual aspects, refine your messaging, portray the brand, and engage customers and watch it catch on.
But branding is an ongoing initiative, and one aspect of it that really ties in the idea of “personal branding” is to make it uber-personal. And you …
Job Hunters: Think You’re Not in ‘Sales’? Think Again!
Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, CAREER STALLED? How to Get Your Career Back in ‘High Gear’ and Land the Job You Deserve─Your Dream Job. Publication is scheduled for early 2013.
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How to Manage People When You Have No Clue
“Wait, what’s a SORD order again?” I asked. “And where do we get the information I need for the account?”
“You get that from BOSS, but you can’t use BOSS-south only BOSS-north, otherwise you will get an error. But before you complete the SORD order you need to go into Telegence and process a request …
Guide to Personal Brand Building Using Kindle Publishing
Learn how to write and self-publish a book to build your personal brand with the help of Ryan Deiss’s Kindle Publishing Revolution.
Writing and publishing a book remains the best strategy for building your personal brand. Writing a book establishes you as an expert in your field, instantly differentiating you from your competition and opening …