Category: Relationship Networking

Professional progress is often shaped by the strength of relationships.

Here we explore how trust is built through consistency, generosity,
and shared purpose.


The goal is a network that grows naturally and supports long-term opportunity.

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7 Universal Design Tips for Stand-out Personal Branding

Design plays a crucial role in building your personal brand; use the 7 universal design tips to help your brand stand out from the competition & ensure your messages get read.

The appearance of your personal branding messages determines whether or not they will be noticed, read, and remembered.

At a glance, prospective clients,employers, and …

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How to Destroy Your Career

Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?

The seven deadly sins of career building:

Laziness

Carelessness

Lying

Stealing

Arrogance

Cynicism

Self-pity

There’s more of course, but that list is a really good start.

Here’s the thing. You never intended for those sins to show up in …

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Google vs. Facebook Mark: Google Loses the Battle

Social media’s space has become so crowded that CNBC now has a Social Media stock analyst whose entire specialty are the social media stocks. Groupon, LinkedIn, Google and the closely watched upcoming Facebook IPO including commentary on its pre-IPO private market performance.

Goliath Google launches +

Google launched it’s own social network, Google+, in July …

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Five Personal Branding Tools Every Job Candidate Needs

If you want to be taken seriously as a job candidate, and stand out as someone who really knows what they’re doing, and that you’re plugged in, you need to have a few personal branding tools.

They’re all easy to get, they’re all inexpensive, if not downright free (except #4; you’re kind of stuck there). …