13 Branding Experts to Follow on Twitter
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC recently published #FixYoungAmerica: How to Rebuild Our Economy and Put Young Americans Back to Work (for Good), a book of 30+ …
Do Something That Builds You Up While Job Hunting
A couple years ago, I lost a dream job in a horrid way. I’d spent years networking and branding myself for the opportunity and had just gotten it. Then, shortly after I started, the company’s fortunes went downhill and my co-workers and I endured an agonizing, demoralizing few months until we were laid off.
It …
What’s Up with the One Page Resume Rule?
There’s a bit of conventional wisdom out there about how long a resume should be. Many career advisers, resume writing books and websites, and even some blogs suggest that people should keep their resume to one single page. Job seekers shrink their font sizes, decrease their margins, and use other tricks to try and force …
Brand Your Looks: On-Camera Makeup
Part of your brand is how you appear in photos and present yourself in videos.
Here’s how to get a natural on-camera look that doesn’t scream TONS OF MAKEUP and lets your audience concentrate on what you are saying rather than what you look like.
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The Zen Garden of Your Brand
Whether you are a millennial joining the ranks of those seeking their first job, a baby boomer reinventing yourself with a ‘second youth’ in sight or anything in between, personal branding can be instrumental in taking hold of your personal and professional development and achieving your goals without sacrificing your unique personality and style. And …
Anderson Cooper Is Good For The Gay Brand
“It’s strange that still today there is an aspect of selflessness to public figures coming out as gay.”
That was the first tweet I saw about Anderson Cooper coming out. Albeit relevant, it lead to a trail of thoughts about that exact subject. …
Geysers, Grizzlies, an Active Volcano—and Job hunting!
Yellowstone National Park . . . what image, what brand, immediately comes to mind when you hear these words? For most people it’s the geyser “Old Faithful.” A few others will think of bears and bison, the Great Outdoors, still largely unspoiled by modernity. That’s the image, the brand, of Yellowstone National Park. That’s what …
7 Marketing Tips for Personal Branding Success
By themselves, engagement, story-telling, and cultivating a social media following is not enough; personal brands must be profitable if they are going to be sustainable.
I recently revisited Jim Horan’s highly successful One-Page Business Plan site, …
Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and thinking differently from everyone else. I was relieved to learn in a class that “conventional wisdom” need not apply!
Believe in yourself
According to conventional wisdom, we are told the first step to building our business is to write out a detailed business plan. But most of us …
Know Your Network: 3 Personal Brand Musts To Share
From the time we enter college as an undergraduate to the time we retire, we’re taught the importance of building a solid professional network. We send friendly emails to the names printed on business cards we collect at area networking events, and we issue expertise and job updates to former and current co-workers and bosses …