Best Practices for One Sheet Personal Brand-Building Success
They’re practical, effective, and efficient tools that can distributed for free as email attachments or website downloads. You can also use your desktop printer to print and mail them, as needed, or distribute them at networking events.
One of the best ways you …
Team Playing Increases Business Success
Being a team player encompasses everything you do. Unfortunately many people work very hard at trying to build business, but when in person, they wind up destroying what they built. They are unaware that working together so much more may be achieved.
All sound relationships are built on team effort whether 1:1 or in large …
Don’t Let Your Cell Phone Sell Your Age
Today’s post is written by Gareth Parkin.
About a month ago a mid-level executive I know in California asked my advice about getting a new cell phone. He said, “I don’t really need or want a smart phone, I don’t text or email from my phone. My old phone is dying though and they don’t …
Did You Trick Anyone?
As if you ordinarily invite us to see the real you, Halloween gave you the proper opportunity to pretend. That is pretend to try and fool us with your mask or costume.
At work I saw witches who believe they were wearing clothes becoming someone with a worse attitude. Ghosts who believe we don’t know …
Shape and Move Business Anytime With These 5 Fundamentals!
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” – Lucille Ball
The truth and reality of any cycle is a combination of negative, challenging realities, but also positive, inspiring and encouraging trends that come …
The Most Overrated Jobs of 2011
Earlier this month I blogged about 5 recession-resistant careers that were each part of CareerCast’s Most Underrated Jobs of 2011. When CareerCast caught wind of my blog, they offered the chance to interview Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast when they released their newest list, The Most Overrated Jobs of 2011. The Top 5 Most Overrated …
How to Increase Social Proof of Your Expertise
The concept of “social proof” has been explored extensively through research conducted by Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of several best-selling books, including Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
In short, social proof means that people do what they see others doing.
For example, in a social experiment, one or more (anonymous) researchers looked up at the …
PowerPointless: 5 Non-Slide Ideas To Present Yourself Better
When trying to convey our own style so that people may give us credibility, why is it that we present ourselves in a similar fashion?
I’m talking of course about our ultra-reliance on PowerPoint.
This week, I’m going to do something outside of what I’ve ever done before – I’m about to deliver a presentation …
Rebranding Yourself When Your Job or Life Changes
I’ve faced a couple of career changes in my years, after fully vesting myself in my previous job, company, and position. The changeover has been difficult at times, as I had gotten to know a lot of people in that previous industry, and set myself up as an authority on my particular company’s product or …
Inbound Marketing: A Sound Strategy for Your Brand
Unless you are one of those lucky folks with a sizable budget at your disposal to invest in PR and advertising efforts in order to promote your personal or business brand (and whether you know it or not), you will in all likelihood be using inbound marketing techniques to reach your targeted audience and generate …