Does ‘Ready, Fire!, Aim’ Describe Your Job Search Approach?
In this week’s blog I am going to use the analogy of target shooting (archery, pistol, rifle, etc.) to make some points about how I routinely see some (most?) job seekers approach finding a new job today.
The protocolIdeally, the approach one should take in order to hit the “bull’s eye” on a shooting …
Sometimes A Great Brand Is Not Enough
As many of my fellow contributors have written, the personal brand you create is one of the most important determinants of your success both inside and outside of the workplace.
We have talked about how it takes time and many steps to build up a strong reputation (let alone the work that goes into maintaining …
Creative Briefs And Personal Branding Success
If you’re building your personal brand with the help of freelancers like copywriters, graphic designers, coaches, or web consultants, you should be preparing a creative brief for each project.
Creative briefs are short documents, typically just 1 or 2 pages long. They save time, money, and frustration by identifying the crucial elements of a project.…
Goals On Track Produce Increased Sales
Are you wishfully thinking about what you would like to do, dreaming about what might happen, or are you taking the lead for making your secretive desires come true? Sales techniques definitely put control in your hands to increase your likelihood for success.
Achieving your goalsLet’s take a look at ensuring you achieve your …
4 Ways To Enhance Your Brand During An Internship
Summer is almost here – the season of sun, fun, and internships. Though most would not consider internships an integral part of the summer, they remain to be an integral piece of professional experience.
Despite what you may have heard, internships aren’t just for learning those essential on-the-job skills (no, I don’t mean fetching coffee). …
The Final Issue of Personal Branding Magazine with Donald Trump, Warren Bennis & Susan Cain
I started Personal Branding Magazine back in 2007 after creating the Personal Branding Blog. I noticed that professionals wanted multiple ways to consume content and that a magazine was a great option at the time. The first issue had merely …
Get Sticky With an Acrostic
Sandler Success Principles: 11 Insights that will change the way you Think and Sell makes you SMARTER. Why the capital letters? Because SMARTER is an acrostic – a word with letters that when taken in order spell out an easy-to-remember phrase.
Sandler Success Principles became an instant Amazon bestseller last week, in part because Sandler’s …
The Personal Brand That Will Close Deals
I’m 26 years old – no longer the youngest guy in the room in Silicon Valley. I feel my age is an advantage though; sure, it doesn’t get me the 18-year-old with a start-up press, but investors, potential hires, and my current team take me more seriously because I’m older.
But it’s a whole different …
Be Fear-Less. Face Everything And Roar
“Courage is fear that’s said its prayers.” (Dorothy Bernard, author)
I decided voluntarily to change my career and lifestyle in 2006, after living and working in the same place for several decades. I was older, and I moved to take a career opportunity in a place where I didn’t know anyone. My friends and colleagues …
Leading A Strange Group (Even If You’re Inexperienced)
What happens when you’re placed in a leadership position of a group of people you barely know and have never worked with before? How can you come into that situation and be successful at branding yourself as an effective leader? Can it even be done if you’re not already a confident leader in that area?…