Save Your Online and Offline Brands from Yourself
Here at the PersonalBrandingBlog, we provide you with all sorts of tips for creating and maintaining your personal brand. But, we don’t cover often enough what you might have already done wrong and how to fix it.
OnlineTBYP (Think Before You Post)
Because the impact of any single mistake on the Internet is exponential, …
3 Ways to Acquire Referrals for Your Personal Brand
There is no greater gift your personal brand can receive than a recommendation, referral, or testimonial. I’m currently reading a great book by John Jantsch called The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. Although clearly a business book and not a personal branding book, so many of its principles can be applied to …
A Cup of Coffee to The LAW of Personal Packaging
Time to grab your cup of coffee and dedicate a few minutes of your time to examining John Jenson’s Law of Personal Packaging.
John is a speaker and author who helps companies and individuals develop their message and deliver it in a way that invokes confidence and trust in their audience. Years ago, he told …
More Examples of Entrepreneur Blog Posts
I have previously discussed how entrepreneurs should use a blog to build their personal brand and I have provided some examples of entrepreneur blog posts. Here are a few more examples of entrepreneur blog posts:
The Human Resources Blog:– Offering retirement savings for a small business: This would be an article talking about how …
Getting Away with the CEO Swap
So, Tony Hayward is being replaced as CEO of BP by an American. It’s not surprising to see that the company is doing whatever they can to minimize damage and public outcry. I’ve come to find it interesting that when a company gets itself in to serious trouble, that the “CEO Swap” is viewed as …
Your Networking Etiquette Can Tank Your Brand
Building your personal brand has become an important factor in promoting yourself to hiring managers, employers, and potential clients. One facet of building your brand is networking and building your connections. Networking online or offline, following proper etiquette or netiquette can help build upon your reputation and character.
Is this really you?As you worked …
Personal Brands: Let Me Entertain You
We’re having a BBQ with about 50 people up at my house in a few weeks. It’ll be in August, which weirdly enough, is when about a full third of my family and friends are born. So it’s always a big party, featuring crowd faves like ribs, beer, and cake. What could be bad?
Nothing, …
A Cup of Coffee to Leverage
In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed defining and solidifying your personal brand by building your network, increasing peer recommendations, and publishing relevant articles online. If you have completed some or all of the Sunday exercises over your cup of coffee, then you currently have some valuable personal branding collateral.
Magnify your personal brandDon’t …
You Can’t Trademark Your Name…But You Can Buy It In Google
You have probably seen the recent viral video about the guy who bought the names of some top New York ad executives in Google to help land his dream job…and it worked! Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRwCs99DWg.
This brings up an interesting dilemma for individuals who want to be found in Google. Unlike companies and …
Social Networking: Is Growth Destroying it’s Value for End Users?
Social networking is great for many things – it can help you get a job, make a new connection, get your foot in the door, and meet folks you would have never had the opportunity to meet physically. But, lately, I’ve started to wonder if social media networks are losing their value at the expense …