4 Biggest Personal Branding Mistakes People Make
When you’re creating your personal brand, there are a few pitfalls you need to watch out for. They’re basic mistakes, but a lot of people still make them, and hurt their chances to make an impact in their job search or their campaign to boost their workplace reputation. Here are four of the biggest personal …
Bloggers: Are PR People Ruining Your Personal Brand?
As your blog becomes more influential, more people want to take advantage of that influence for their own purposes, and those purposes might actually oppose yours.
All too often, those people are PR people.
Here’s how it happens.
Most blogs have a contact form. The PR person will use that form to send you a …
How to Guest Blog Your Way to a Stronger Personal Brand
You already know how important blogging is to your personal brand, and you might be doing quite a bit of it on your personal blog to gain traction in your field.
Another important tactic to strengthen your personal brand is guest blogging. Offering your expertise on other’s blogs can help you reach new audiences and …
Shut Up!
I wish there were a better way to say this, but you have got to stop talking all the time. You know who you are. You’re the one who can answer a three word question like, “How are you?” with an essay longer than the Gettysburg address. You’re the one who takes the floor in …
What Your Social Media Username Says About Your Brand
While it may seem like a trivial task, choosing your username for your social media properties (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube username, Gmail username) is an important branding task. Often, your username will serve as the “first impression” a new viewer has to your brand. In an attempt to make the process easier, I’ve included my views …
Customer Service = Brand
The past few weeks have been an interesting experience and a lesson in terms of “what good does not look like” in the wonderful world of customer service. Here is the situation. I am in the midst of trying to move some retirement money around and have been doing so for the better part of …
DISCIPLINE: The Most Important Word in the English Language
Discipline is doing what you don’t want to do… in pursuit of what you want.
I’m not sure discipline can be defined any better. If things were easy to do and you were excited about doing them, you wouldn’t need to be disciplined. Here’s an interestingly fact: Success, happiness, and achievement are easy ! How …
Which Personal Page For You: about.me or flavors.me?
As if you didn’t have enough online profiles to manage already, along come personal pages. But then… maybe the fact that there’s almost nothing to manage is what makes them so appealing?
What are personal pages?Personal pages, also called personal home pages, are one page websites that are meant to be used as web-based …
How The $#*! You Say Affects Your Brand
It’s my turn to host girl’s night and my dining room and kitchen are buzzing with the sounds of my girlfriends’ laughter as we begin to open a bottle of red wine. “Is that a vase of money on your desk?” asks Victoria. “Yes, my name’s Adriana and I’m addicted to dollar slot machines. (We …
Is Your Brand Building Harder Work Than Necessary?
Trying to stand out in a crowd is not always the best way to stand out.
First, a storyI was chatting with an old friend of mine recently about his dating struggles. Or rather, struggles about his lack of serious dating.
Now in his late 30’s, single and wanting very much to start a …