Personal Branding Interview: Jason Fried
Today, I spoke to Jason Fried, who is the co-founder and President of 37signals. In this interview, Jason talks about how simplicity is so important when it comes to products, his views on personal branding, web 2.0, the future, and more.
Your brand is based on simplicity and your products represent that. Why is simplicity…Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #4
Responses to recent tweets made recently by people about personal branding.
Sherman M. Cheng, @chengm7ny, asked: thinking of building up my personal brand…but what should I start with?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare:
The first part of a personal branding is to understand what its goals should be i.e, once you’ve understood what your personal branding goals …
Secrets to Getting More Referrals – Part 2
Getting referrals and attracting opportunities from people you connect with both in person and online comes down to being highly referable.
Last week I posed some questions to help you assess your referability factor. The first three test whether you’re giving contacts enough information to make the referral:
Can contacts…Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Pink
Today, I spoke to Daniel Pink, who is the New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and the author of the new book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which arrives in late December. This is one of his first interviews before his …
3 Personal Branding Interviews You Need to Read
Dan Schawbel has over 220 great interviews with some of the top minds in personal branding, business, writing and social media. We have much to learn from these remarkable interviewees.
In case you missed them, here are three of my personal favorites that have takeaways to advance your career and life:
Don Bulmer is the …
Personal Branding Interview: Josh Mullineaux
Today, I spoke to Josh Mullineaux, who is the Director of Marketing and lead business development manager at Unique Blog Designs. Josh and his team have helped a lot of big companies and personal brands build their blog platforms, such as Yahoo!, MySpace, ShoeMoney and I. I’ve been their client for about a year now …
How Many Pages are Needed for a Brand Building Book?
Are you overestimating the number of pages needed to write a book that successfully builds your personal brand? Many business owners and career-oriented employees who want to write a brand-building book think “too big,” “too comprehensive, and “too many pages.”
Too many brand-oriented individuals think in terms of their college textbooks, comprehensive compilations of every …
You Speak, I Cry Inside. Personal Branding Never Sleeps.
It’s time to do a mind-sweep, because what you think is gushing out of your mouth and into your texts, tweets, posts, and email. That self-talk you’ve got going is killing your chances to connect with the opportunities that are all around you. Personal branding is a 24/7/365 effort – because if you do it …
The Personal Brand Marketplace of the Future. Are Your Prepared?
I think it’s an understatement to say the world has changed due to social technologies. If you’ve think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t seen anything yet! Two weeks ago, I gave my top ten personal branding predictions for 2010, which is actually only a month away (pretty scary if you ask me). Those were …
Personal Branding to Prevent Career Suicide
Two days ago I read an article on CNNMonday.com about how many people are afraid that taking a “survival job” to make ends meet now will destroy their career when the economy picks up again.
That’s very understandable. When you’re forced into a lower-level job than you were currently doing, or find yourself doing a …