Revealed: PBB Experts and Personal Branding Success
Success stories are inspiring, so I asked every Personal Branding Blog contributor to describe when they first felt their own personal branding success.
Enjoy.
Dan Schawbel:There were two main instances that had proved the power of personal branding to me and they both happened in unison. First, after six months between March 14th and …
The Hidden Goldmine Within the LinkedIn Companies Tab
I was interviewed by CNN this week to give some quick tips on using social networking for a job search beyond just updating your status to say you’re looking for a job.
In the segment I focused most on LinkedIn not only because there are now close to 45 million professionals who are members of …
Personal Branding Interview: Richard Sambrook
Today, I spoke to Richard Sambrook, who is the Director of the BBC’s Global News division, responsible for leading the BBC’s international news services across radio, television and new media. In this interview, Richard talks about the future of journalism, how the demographics of his blog readers compare to the BBC’s, international news, personal branding …
Tips to Develop Your Personal Brand from Michael Port, Marketing Guru
The first book I read by Michael Port was Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling. It contains some of the most practical, actionable, and no-nonsense advice I’ve come across to authentically market yourself.
Port sees personal …
Personal Branding Interview: Ryan Paugh
Today, I spoke to Ryan Paugh, who is the co-founder and community manager at Brazen Careerist. Ryan is one of my good friends and I had the pleasure to connect with him close to when I started blogging a few years back. Ryan, along with Penelope Trunk and Ryan Healy (also good friends), have re-launched …
My Personal Branding Journey Part 10 – Reflecting Back and Moving Forward
This is the last post in our series where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
It’s been an amazing month sharing my personal branding journey with all of you. I have received great feedback, engaged in some interesting …
Write Your Will and Start Your Life
Great athletes start with the finish line in mind. Lance Armstrong doesn’t hop on his bike and wonder where he’ll end up. Michael Phelps doesn’t jump in the pool and paddle around. Why would you take to the open road of your career or business without a destination in mind and expect to wind up …
Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding Worldwide [August 2009]
It’s already August and I haven’t done one of my reports this year, which is a shame because I did three last year. The point of each of these reports is to show you trends, insights and a lot of resources which will keep you in tune and up-to-date with the latest happenings in the …
Starring in our Own Truman Show
Ten years ago, a movie called The Truman Show explored what would happen if a person who had unknowingly been filmed their entire life for a television show suddenly discovered that every part of their life was public.
At that time, that was a radical concept. Reality shows were just getting popular. Jon and Kate …
Personal Branding Interview: Peter Bregman
Today, I spoke to Peter Bregman, who is the author of Point B, a consultant and blogger at Harvard Business School Publishing. In this interview, Peter talks to us about leadership in corporations, how people change everyday, not using your gut to make decisions, how to climb the corporate ladder and why failure is a …