Managing Your Personal Brand Via Online Presence and Reputation
Regardless of how you manage your reputation in real life, your personal brand is made up in large part by your digital presence and online reputation
Your posts, tweets, updates and comments mean you and your brand are always on and ready to start a conversation–with or without you. Online, your prospects and customers can …
3 People Who Never Belong In A Brainstorm Room
“OK, everybody. Come on into the brainstorm room/conference room and let’s talk about (Insert Initiative Here). We’re going to need to generate some ideas.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s take that a step back. As it turns out, the process of cultivating ideas isn’t for everybody. It’s not an automatic right based on title. I think …
Direct Sellers: Mobile Tips for Your Personal Brand
Millions rely on mobile devices to communicate and handle all of their computing needs. Customers can receive text promotions, and all a consumer has to do is show that text in exchange for a discount. In fact, in our local Office Depot, all I have to do is show a competitor’s ad on my smartphone …
Storytelling and Your Personal Brand
All indicators are pointing to the growing importance of storytelling in the intertwined social media, PR and advertising worlds. In fact, one could go as far as claiming that storytelling is one of the current buzz words in online and offline marketing as proven by the recent attention it has drawn from sources as varied …
What’s in a Name?
Many of our ancestors came to America with a dream, a promise, and a name that was hard to pronounce or sounded too “insert nationality/religion here”. Names were altered to ease the way into society and increase employment opportunities. Today, in a world of self-marketing and personal branding, name changes happen for all kinds of …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #14
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and Gen-Y, Twitter, presentations and lack of focus.
Taylor B., @thbrogan, twittered: can my personal brand involve not taking twitter too seriously? because i enjoy this option.
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: “Taking Twitter seriously” should mean carefully using Twitter to achieve your personal branding goals (in this …
Most Important Job Interview Question Is Asked By YOU!
Throughout the job hunting process you will be asked many questions, from “Why do you want to work at our company?” to “Tell me about your current (or previous) boss,” as well as a multitude of similar “qualifying” questions. How you answer each of these questions is of course very important. There is, however, one …
Closing The Great Divide Between Hiring Managers – Job Seekers
With more than 14 million Americans looking for work, hiring managers at top U.S. companies claim they are unable to find qualified job candidates. Even more striking is that there are more than three million open positions in the marketplace today.
How is that possible?As a member of the Career Advisory Board, presented by …
Time To Put Your Blog On A Diet?
If your blog is not building the personal brand you want, put it on a diet!
Adopt a new philosophy: write better, but write less!
Putting your blog on a diet sharpens your thinking and improves your ability to engage, inform, and motivate readers, building your personal brand as the “go to” resource in your …
To Be Or Not To Be ~ Decision For Advancement
The past few years have shown waves of employees leaving corporate behind to begin their own venture of entrepreneurship. Some of the entrepreneurs with whom I have become good friends are now re-entering the workforce for a variety of reasons. Conversations are now taking place pondering the question of, “When is it a good time …