Use Personal Promotion like Web Designers Use Heat Maps
Today’s post is written by Gareth Parkin.
Personal Promotion is all about using the right strategies and the right promotional products to get the results you want. You may be using personal promotion to get a new job or to secure a raise. Very simply, you can be the best (fill in the blank) in …
3 Reasons Why Personal Branding Is a 24/7 Job
It is no secret personal branding is a constant job requiring updating, rejuvenating, fine-tuning, and renovation. However, it can be confusing as to why it needs so much work. There are many aspects that play into your brand, and they require you to work around the clock.
Richard Branson, entrepreneur and CEO & founder of …
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 …
Re-Fresh Your Brand for 2012 with These 12 and 12!
The importance of personal branding today is undeniable in life and business. Building personal relationships and connections, tribes and communities is a fact of professional life both in person and online. We have these two amazingly diverse and complementary worlds that we live, work and play in. The potential, benefit and tangible rewards of having …
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 …
Your 2012 Personal Brand
Just because you run a business, are a consultant or haven’t even yet entered the workforce–it doesn’t mean you’re not destined to make an impact on the world at this very moment.
Now is the time to focus on who are you really are, who you want to be, and how you are meant to …
7 Ways to Mind Your Personal Brand’s Manners
Sit up straight. Don’t talk with your mouth full. Write thank you notes to people who give you gifts or attend events in your honor.
These are the kinds of things that we learn early on in life. But good manners, with several updates that apply to this stage of your life, can say a …
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). …
Personal Branding for Minorities: Shining Even Brighter
Some of us – and when we are courageous enough to speak up, we end up realizing that we are many many more that we initially think- grew up knowing that we were the odd one out in an often harsh and unwelcoming world. Or we learnt it abruptly as a result of a major …
Should You Consider ‘Reinventing’ Yourself Today For Tomorrow’s Jobs?
As we enter yet another very challenging year for the overall job market, with “official” unemployment still stubbornly hovering in the nine percent range and no real relief in sight, many job hunters—perhaps you included!—are seriously wondering if they should begin “reinventing” themselves today in preparation for the jobs of tomorrow.
Here is the short …