Protect Your Personal Brand on Facebook with Secure.me
When you’re trying to establish or maintain your personal brand, you need to be on top of your game. While you want to share and contribute to establish yourself, oversharing or sharing viruses are a constant issue you need to avoid. Secure.me is a new privacy-monitoring app dedicated to protecting you from these exact things …
Personal Branding Pledge for 2012
This year is about discovery, and complete recovery from what kills my drive
I allow impatience to test relationships to learn who’s stealing my time
I accurately judge who’s robbing me of what’s mine
I jettison people who are boring or ignoring me or angry that I am soaring
People who cast doubt, or those …
Direct Sellers: LinkedIn Brand Building Communities
LinkedIn is one of the oldest social networks and is often considered the most professional. As businesses are embracing the power of social media sites, a lot of professionals see the advantages of taking their business and their personal brand online and making use of social media to help spread brand awareness. If you’re a …
New Rules For Branding On The Job Search
Advice about developing a personal brand is widely accepted because it is effective. But, in today’s economy, there are new rules for personal branding, especially on the job search.
Traditionally, your personal brand is the absolute best of yourself. It is purposefully unique and encompasses the kind of problems you solve, the way that you …
Happy New Year!!!!!! (With Extra Exclamation Points)
Happy New Year!!!!!!! (These exclamation points will mean something in 28 seconds)
Most of us won’t have too much brainpower today, so let’s get right to it.
Here’s a quick review of Entrepreneur Magazine’s proposed Exclamation Point Guidelines for 2012. These should help communicate our personal brands as we approach the New Year:
Entrepreneur’s interpretation…7 Social Media Resolutions For 2012
I won’t even bother with the typical exercise goals – I’ll start with the goals that are easier for me to accomplish in 2012 in the social media realm. I’ll bet you may want to take a few of these for yourself too.
1. Clean out the quiet people on Twitter.If they haven’t said …
Five Personal Branding Resolutions To Keep In 2012
Well, hell, why not? You’ve made resolutions for everything else so far, why not make resolutions for personal branding next year? Here are five resolutions I wish other marketers, networkers, and social media people would follow. And if you want people to like and respect your personal brand, you’ll at least consider this list of …
Kickstart Your Personal Branding Journey In 2012
Here we are, starting a new year where so much will happen: the London Olympics, the US Presidential Election, the end of the current global financial crisis (we hope!) and tons of other exciting stuff. Did you get your new calendar yet? Any New Year resolutions? Concerned about how to start the year on the …
Sports Leagues Should Embrace Active “Employees” on Twitter
The best brands invite engagement. They showcase authenticity and reply to criticism, instead of deleting it. They also harness the power of their most credible marketers – their employees. Because of social media, employees now have personal brands of their own and can be quite influential. When you think of the personal brands of professional …
Reader Question: Should I Keep My Pseudonym?
Sometimes a pseudonym is a great personal branding move, but times can change.
Here’s the question I was recently asked by a blogger who has used a pen name since launching her blog. She asked me to keep her identity hidden so I’ll call her Ms. Smart (that’s right- a pseudonym for a pen name):…