Direct Sellers: Make the Most of Your Blog
There’s a lot of advantage today for brands to establish an online presence. Even as a direct seller in charge of your personal brand, you can get left behind if you aren’t utilizing the online resources that are available to you.
You may have already set up your social media accounts, and have a website …
How Hanna Landed Her New Dream Job!
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Chuck Dietrich, the CEO of SlideRocket® (www.sliderocket.com), a brand-new online presentation software site that has all the earmarks of quickly becoming a “must-have” tool for job hunters looking for a unique, creative way to break through all the “clutter” surrounding today’s hiring managers and brand themselves as …
Personal Brand Intention
Approximately 15 years ago, Tom Peters wrote “The Brand Called You” in Fast Company. At the time, it seemed an odd concept of sorts in connecting the term “brand” with an individual(s). Looking back, his seminal work ignited a conversation that is pervasive today as personal branding is one of the hottest topics in the …
7 Writing Tips for Small Business Owners
The following 7 writing tips for small business owners who dislike writing have little to do with grammar, vocabulary, or inherited talent.
The reason many small business owners dislike writing is that they don’t give themselves a chance…they don’t have a simple structure, process, system, for creating the ongoing stream of content needed to build …
Sell Your Brand On Performance Review Day
Sales techniques apply 100% to helping you earn an improved performance review. Planning ahead from day one will help you avoid lost time.
The first rule to adhere to is, always sell yourself to management. This is accomplished by embracing documentation. I am not one for paperwork but the essentials are easy to organize in …
How Your Personal Brand Will Get You Hired
As Dan Schwabel has said before, “If a resume was the deciding factor in recruitment, there would never be a need for interviews.”
Here are some reasons how your personal brand can get you hired.
It will make you stand out.
By creating your personal brand prior to job searching, you have a leg up …
5 Tips On Your Brand’s Emotional Footprint
Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?
If Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, than emotion must be an integral factor in successful branding. Coke would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, so the warm fuzzy feeling of connection – not …
Are You Paying Attention to Your Intentions?
“There are two ways of spreading light. Being the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
I discovered a website in 2006, that I really connected with called iJourney.org. It’s simply a blog and community of positive content and writing, from a very simple, human, spiritual perspective. Lot’s of common sense ideas …
Expand Your Brand Like Michael Jackson
Have you seen Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” movie? What an inside view into the artist that Michael Jackson truly was on, and off, stage. Before I saw this movie, again recently on TV, I was blind to the deep talent Jackson held.
Group to solo artistIn ’77, after 14 years and 14 albums …
Job Seekers: Enhance Your Brand by Showing Your Skills
The job search isn’t what it used to be. That’s for sure.
In fact, with hundreds of applicants for every job opening, the tactics that yield job offers have changed dramatically.
In part because of the volume and in part because of the competition, job seekers that stand out – job seekers whose personal brands …