Will Your Network Be There When You Need Them?
I moderated a networking panel recently where the first question during the Q&A period came from a woman in the audience who said, “I’ve been looking for a job for a while and trying to improve my computer skills in the meantime, but I haven’t been able to find anything. What should I do?”
One …
3 Search Engines You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Move over Google – the future of searching is no longer just about you! Check out these 3 new search engines below, then consider how to manage your personal brand on them in the comments section.
OneRiotOneRiot looks at what’s happening on Twitter and Digg in realtime results. They write, “Increasingly, the web’s most …
Tweeting About Being Fired From the New Yorker; Why Journalists Should Take Charge of Their Personal Brand
All in all, last Friday was probably a good day for Dan Baum.
The former New Yorker staff writer’s decision to use Twitter to chronicle his unwilling exit from the magazine in 2007 has generated quite a bit of buzz and attracted a few hundred followers to his account.
At 1:46pm on May 8, Baum …
Why Being Known as a Change Agent Can Add Significant Value to Your Personal Brand
Are you good at handling change? Or do you prefer to hide under the covers hoping change will leave you alone?
In one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption, one prisoner takes a knife to a fellow inmate’s throat, hoping that committing another crime will extend his decades-long tenure behind bars rather than force …
Two Questions About Personal Branding Issues
Here are two posts that caught my eye this week. Neither was about personal branding, but both raised questions about personal branding that are worth discussing. What do you think?
If you want to be successful, be worth sharing by Jamie VaronDo we damage our personal brands by overdoing the self-promotion? Jamie Varon writes, …
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…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. …
‘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 …
Don’t Trust Spell Check to Safeguard Your Personal Brand
If part of your personal brand strategy involves blogging, you’ve probably run into publishing regret once or twice.
I’m not talking about the publishing regret that comes from writing something snarky online and having it come back to bite you when you’re applying for your next job. I’m talking about the embarrassing typo mistakes that …
How To Transition or Expand Your Brand to Two Topics
I have a dilemma. I have a blog about Gen Y topics with nearly 1000 subscribers. I started a new blog about marketing and consumer insights this week, and I am worried about transitioning my personal brand. My second blog is far more important than my first one because it’s the platform for my company, …