Use Your Blogger Status to Promote Your Brand at Conferences
This week, I’m an official blogger at the World Innovation Forum in New York City. To tell you the truth, I’m really excited–not only because the conference has some pretty awesome speakers and because I’ll get to meet people from a top innovation consultancy–but also because this is a great, great opportunity to promote my …
Laundry List | Why You Should Create Your Personal Brand
The choice to build my personal brand was one of the best I’ve made in my life. Here are just some of the ways that building your personal brand can help you get what you want.
Increase your chances of success for reaching your self-defined goals. Shorten your timeline of how long it takes to…Personal Branding Interview: Jason Buss
Today, I spoke with Jason Buss is a Talent Management executive, strategist and blogger The Talent Buzz. In this interview, Jason talks to us about managing his full-time job and his blog, how he sources candidates, what the best social network is for recruitment, the new employer/employee contract and more.
How do you manage having…Success Story: How Bernard Lachance’s Creative Personal Branding Got Him on Oprah
Bernard Lachance is a French-Canadian singer who had a dream and achieved it with a creative personal branding strategy.
He tells it best:
10 lessons we can learn from Bernard Lachance’s inspirational success<
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Bernard had no agent, manager or promoter when he decided to rent the Chicago Theatre for his show. …
Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Coyle
Today, I spoke with Daniel Coyle, who is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is called The Talent Code, which he discusses in the below interview. Daniel defines talent, gives some great examples of talented people, explains the attributes of talent, how he’s used his …
How to Translate What You Do Into What’s In It For Others
Ever feel like you’re speaking a completely different language when you’re relaying your branding message or elevator pitch to others? Even when you deliver it coherently without stumbling over your words, something seems to be lost in the translation because people just aren’t “getting it?”
What’s often lost in the translation, what others aren’t understanding …
How NOT Getting the Job was the Best Thing that Could have Happened
Last week I received that dreaded phone call that comes from the same family line as the tiny envelope university rejection letter:
Ring…. Ring…. Ring….
Me: Stephen! How you doing?
Stephen: Doing great Jun…
Me: Did you get my email? I had an amazing time interviewing with Damon and Jim yesterday. Feeling real …
‘Miss California’ Personal Branding Winners and Losers
I live in Los Angeles and I’m a native Californian. I love living here – I was born in Southern California, where I live now. I’ve also lived in San Francisco – what a magnificent city! As a Californian, my ears perked up when I saw out of the corner of my eye last week …
Personal Branding Interview: John Kador
Today, I spoke with John Kador, who is a New York Times bestselling author and author of the new book, Effective Apology. In this interview, John discusses how executives can earn more money by apologizing, the significance of the word “sorry,” the power of authenticity, some great examples and more.
Can you explain how executives…5 Ways to Conquer Your First TV Appearance
I’ve learned a lot about the media over the past few years, from being interviewed by major magazines and online news sites, to calling into a few radio and podcast shows and then by taking a major step with a TV appearance. If you asked me a few years ago if I thought I’d be …