Make Your Personal Brand Visible with Newsle
A crucial element for maintaining a personal brand is having credibility. Building credibility by sharing relevant content and managing your online reputation is a no-brainer. In fact, while you could be an exceptional expert in your field online, what good is it to your personal brand if your efforts aren’t visible to your network? Newsle …
15 Questions To Test Your Hostility Level
Answer these questions (honestly – no one will know but you):
1. An office mate eats a sandwich with a whole lot of onions
a. I consider his odor might increase my chances for a promotion
b. I consider telling him he’s stinking up the place
2. My IT consultant leaves after fixing my computer …
Does Your Brand Rational-Lies?
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I’m hearing more stories about people being underemployed. And though underemployment is not “ideal’ for someone who just obtained their Bachelors or Masters degree- being employed is better than …
Video Games: Building a Brand Outside of the Basement
Today’s post is written by T.K. Brown.
An industry once associated with introverts and basement dwellers has finally ascended from the underground and into the light of mainstream media. For outsiders, this may have come as a surprise, but for those who are close to the industry, the transition was inevitable. Gone are the days …
Intelligent Laziness: Choosing Quality over Quantity
This is the final part of my series on Why Your Personal Brand Needs a Mindset Shift. You can read the other posts in this series here: Part One: Your Personal Brand Needs a Mindset Shift Part Two: Normal is Not Enough and Part Three: Answer the Why! **********************
I hear from job seekers on …
Don’t Fall For The “I Know People” Trap
There are many different types of potential clients you’ll come across and there will come a time where, if the discussions turn serious enough, you’ll enter what should be a negotiation phase for your services.
However, there are certain prospects who aren’t negotiating as much as playing games and it’s important to separate these pretenders …
Writing Your Personal Brand Bio When You Change Careers
How do you redefine yourself professionally when you’ve spent several years getting it down pat the first time?
Timothy Brandt posed that question — sort of — to me and my Branding Yourself co-author Kyle Lacy last week on Twitter.
How can I start my IT bio when I received experiences from business positions?
For …
The New Science Of Social Media
Since social media became an integral part of our personal and professional lives, we have witnessed a gradual shift from a more or less spontaneous and intuitive use towards a decidedly more clinical and rational approach. This process had been anticipated by analysts and experts and was after all to be expected given the upsurge …
Making Fan Focus Manageable
As an athlete, the sheer size and diverse nature of your fan base can seem intimidating but like any big project it becomes more manageable once you break it down. By categorizing your fans into groupings, you can better strategize on how to engage as well as grow your overall base.
Sports fans most often …
‘Online Applications ONLY’: A ‘Lose-Lose’ Proposition for All!
In last week’s posting (Corporate America: Your Hiring Processes are Branded as “Broken”!) I pointed out the tremendous disconnect that exists today between job seekers and the companies that seek to hire them because of certain current hiring processes in corporate America. In this week’s posting I am going to examine one of those processes …