New Years Resolutions for Entrepreneurs & Personal Branding
Happy New Year! As entrepreneurs begin another year of running their business, or decide that this is the year they will start their own company, here are some personal branding resolutions all entrepreneurs should have:
1) I will blog moreYou want to further your brand and expertise. There’s no better way than to share …
Turn Stress into Relief
Building your brand, researching jobs, and seeking new clients are natural stress builders. When we allow stress to overtake our more relaxed style, it adversely affects our marketing communication messaging that we put out into the world.
Following a very bad economy many people are truly stressed out about acquiring a new job. “Carol” shared …
Develop Personal Branding Goals That Stick
With the New Year come and gone, many people made resolutions they’ve vowed to stick to for 2011. Perhaps you would like to beef up your online presence by revamping your current website. Or maybe you’re looking to add several new clients in the coming months. Whatever your goal (or goals) for the New Year …
A Cup of Coffee to a Better 2011 To-Do List
To paraphrase a quote I read on Twitter the other day, “I can’t believe another year has passed and I’m not the better person I was supposed to become.”
Alas, there will always be more to do than can possibly get done. But instead of adding to your endless list of to-dos, take a moment …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #10
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and Twitter, starting over, LinkedIn, and more.
Stephen Fells, @StephenFells, twittered: Is it better to tweet under a brand or a personal twitter account?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: Is it better to use a hammer or a drill? It all depends on what you’re trying to do.…
Brands Have More Fun in 2011
With a bright new start to 2011, let’s just face a couple of facts. This is the year for making smarter moves when it comes to building an unforgettable personal brand, but there’s one condition: It requires having more fun with your brand.
Why? There’s a new brand landscape out there, all the rules have …
A Cup of Coffee to 2010’s Biggest Branding Takeaways
Lest history repeat itself throughout 2011, there are many significant branding takeaways from 2010 that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Here are my Top Three 2010 Branding Takeaways. Please leave a comment below and add to the list of the Biggest 2010 Branding Takeaways!
1) Your Brand Must Be Backed By a Quality Product.
People will follow …
ARC: Awareness and Respect (build) Character
Am I a grumpy old man at age 58? Am I feeling like Rodney Dangerfield who “never got any respect?” Am I old-fashioned and, as Jethro Tull might suggest, Living in the Past? My questions have to do with, what I perceive to be, a lack of respect in America today.
I am sitting in …
Be A Good Sport
Sportsmanship is not limited to games played on fields, courts, and courses. After all, what is sport? It is simply athletic competition. Absent the athletics, it is merely competition.
As a human being, you compete every day, do you not? In your career. In business. At home, subtly, with neighbors. The entire human existence – …
3 More Personal Branding Predictions for 2011
Recently, Dan Schawbel released his seven personal branding predictions for 2011. Among them:
Your online personal brand will be consolidated Soft skills become more important than hard skills As the economy gets better, the war for talent ignites Social networks will become completely ineffective for one-to-many marketing efforts Personal brands have more responsibilities Social media…