Qualify The Opportunity For Best Results
Most likely, you are frequently bombarded with requests to partner, become an affiliate, or provide a free gift to enhance someone’s endeavor. In the early stages of business it is quite exciting to be asked to contribute to better-known entities. You feel as if you are at least arriving if have not yet quite arrived.…
Brand Yourself To Highlight The Best
As a personal brand today, your online reputation is very important. Hiring managers, recruiters, business owners, clients, and the like, probably Google your name to see what comes up before they even consider hiring you.
This is why it’s essential for you to control your search engine results. You want to highlight the best things …
Corrosive Power Or Conscience?
The business of football got uglier when information about the bounty for pain scandal surfaced. This scandal is currently decimating the management, income, and personal brands of the New Orleans Saints. The ironically named Saints are not the only team of people to pool money and put people in the cross-hairs, in hopes of destroying …
What’s Your Swag?
The word of the year so far is SWAG..
Straight from the Urban dictionary and one of the hottest cultural terms of the moment! By definition “It’s about appearance, style or the way he or she presents themselves”.
Swag can be applied to everythingIt’s being applied to just about anything, including dental swag, which …
Do What You Love And You Never Work Again
In the words of Confucius, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Does this sound too good to be true?
For over a decade I pursued my dream and led a business that was built out of pure passion, in essence I did what I …
Let Others See Behind The Polished Brand
Last week, I saw the beginning segment of my mom’s favorite guilty pleasure: Dancing with the Stars. For the next 10 weeks, she and much of America will be watching as stars ranging from pop singer Gavin DeGraw to Super Bowl champion Donald Driver, legendary Gladys Knight, and Steve Urkel (ahem, I mean Jaleel White) …
Transforming Old Papers And Business Cards Into Brand Treasure
Here’s a nice little Spring Cleaning tip for you that could be a nice win-win. This nice win-win would be that it de-clutterizes your office, and helps share your interests with your online community – in turn building your brand.
We all come across handy articles that we’d like to hold onto and refer back …
Five Things A Billionaire Taught Me About Job Hunting
Life is good if you are Reid Hoffman. The self-made billionaire was a part of the founding team at PayPal. He took his winnings from that expedition and went on to found LinkedIn. Hoffman knows what success is.
I’d like to tell you that I’ve been chumming around with him; that in his jet somewhere …
Differentiate Or Die: The New Rules Of Personal Branding
These are the best of times for personal branders; these are the worst of times for personal branders. Far from mere Dickensian wordplay, I believe this statement reflects a reality that old hands in the business will be quick to recognize and happy to give their assent to. Newcomers may soon find out the hard …
Have You Gone Overboard With Your Website?
With so many opportunities to get digitally creative these days, it is easy to see how one could go overboard on their personal or company website. Due to this excess of options, one may ask – how much is too much? While perhaps a better question is – where do I focus?
Knowing that most …