Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #17
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and SEO, rebranding, Facebook and more.
Joe Hunter, @joesoldout, twittered: Any SEO experts out there know how I can grow and expand my whack-ass personal brand?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: If your personal brand relies on an active web presence, especially if you’re using a personal website …
Don’t Let a Storm Ruin Your Personal Branding Efforts
I live at the now-hurricane-ravaged Jersey Shore–but you won’t hear me complain. I went six days without power, but that was the worst of it for me, to be honest. Areas of my town are devastated, and the town over has been nearly wiped away. I am blessed and beyond grateful to have survived and …
10 Tips for Reacting (or Not!) to Bad Brand Publicity
Bad news travels fast. What ONE tip would you give an entrepreneur who just spotted some bad brand publicity?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship …
5 Strategies to Sell Well
Honesty comes in all forms including honesty to self. Do you in fact believe 100% in what you have to offer as an entrepreneur or as a sales representative will it benefit your clientele?
Should any inkling of doubt creep into your mind, your first priority is to resolve the issue. Is …
Career Takeaways From Lance Armstrong
Last month, Lance Armstrong took the beat down of the year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency published a 1,000-page report alleging Armstrong organized an elaborate doping scheme.
From a branding and career perspective, many are saying that this is it for Armstrong. He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, lost many of …
Are You Your Last Name?
There is a man selling his last name. He’s ready and willing to take whatever last name YOU assign to him, for the right price. The bidding starts at buymylastname.com.
This isn’t so strange if you know the man, Jason Sadler (or whatever you or any other winning bidder chooses for him to use through …
Could Your Personal Brand Survive Hurricane, Fire, or Flood?
What would have happened to your personal brand and business if you were a self-employed professional living in lower Manhattan or coastal New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck?
Would your brand and business survive if your computer, iPad, and smartphone were lost or damaged by fire, flood, or hurricane?
After the flood waters receded, would …
Personal Branding Weekly and Clarity in Social Communication
Editor’s Note: Have you ever experienced a low-ball salary offer and wondered what’s the best thing to do to come back from that? Author Skip Freeman, share some helpful tips to do that.
This week we covered that and what makes you valuable; the importance and power of Google AuthorRank (if you …
5 Easy Ways To Make A Great First Impression
What you say is often not nearly as important as how you say it. Most people underestimate the importance of making a positive first impression, while they overestimate their present ability to do so.
When you meet someone for the first time in any setting, your initial goal should be to appear trustworthy, likable, confident, …
Google AuthorRank Helps Personal Branding
If you’ve been hearing some talk about Google’s new AuthorRank algorithm, you need to pay attention to what’s going on with it, because it’s going to affect not only your SEO, but your personal branding.
AuthorRank is Google’s determination of how much they trust you to provide interesting, valuable content, and not dirty, nasty spam.…