Do You Also Have These Misconceptions About Personal Branding?
A recent blog post by Jonathan Rick of Booz Allen Hamilton suggests that personal branding isn’t really that important for job search or career success. He’s both right and wrong.
Jonathan’s article was guest-posted on Lindsay Olson’s blog. In the well-written piece, Jonathan takes a look at 3 people – Cyrus Krohn, David Kralik and …
Personal Branding Interview: Dharmesh Shah
Today, I spoke to Dharmesh Shah, who is a co-founder at Hubspot and co-author of Inbound Marketingting: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs. In this interview Dharmesh goes over what inbound marketing is and how it differs from outbound marketing, results he’s seen from pushing content out through social media tools, and more.…
10 Ways to Get Fired For Building Your Personal Brand
For all of you employed readers, this post is directed at you because I wouldn’t want you to become unemployed, as you build your own personal brand. Branding has become very personal these days and the relationship we have with our companies is changing very fast, so I think it’s important to focus on what …
Personal Branding Interview: Starr Hall
Today, I spoke to Starr Hall, who is a public relations expert and author of Get Connected: The Social Networking Toolkit For Business. In this interview, Starr points out the top things that people looking for a job in PR should know, explains that not all publicity is good publicity, gives different ways you can …
30 More Personal Branding Experts on Twitter
After the success of my first list of personal branding experts to follow on Twitter, here’s the followup:
Nance Rosen, @nancerosen Mohammed Al-Taee, @maltaee Harp Arora, @harparora Jan Melnik, @janmelnik Catherine Kaputa, @CatherineKaputa Cindy Kraft, @CFOCoach Deb Dib, @CEOCoach Gayle Howard, @GayleHoward Andy Robinson, @AndyInNaples Jason Alba, @jasonalba Jann Watt, @jannwatt Kim Batson, @CIO_Coach Krishna…Break Out of the Social Media Prison
This is a direct response to Carlos Miceli’s post on Owl Sparks: Prison, Fear, and Personal Branding
You know that feeling you have when you first meet someone? It’s that feeling that you have to put your best foot forward so that you can make the best first impression. We have this feeling at networking …
Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Brusilovsky
Today, I spoke to Daniel Brusilovsky, who is a 16-year-old media producer, entrepreneur, student CEO and writer for TechCrunch. In this short but sweet interview, Daniel tells us how he got started as an entrepreneur, how he’s gotten certain dream opportunities in the tech space, and some recommendations for young professionals.
Daniel, how did you…Linkedin Profile Organizer and Killer Traffic Tip
Linkedin announced some new functionality this week with its new Profile Organizer. Now you have the ability to save profiles, organize your connections into folders, and add notes to any or all of your connections. Pretty cool stuff!
Linkedin is currently offering a free 30 day trial for anyone who would like to try out …
Personal Brand Audit: What’s Your Online Visibility Score?
This is the fourth in a series of Personal Brand Audits, where we’ll make sure you’re keeping the touch points of your personal brand effective and up to date. (See Part 1: LinkedIn Audit, Part 2: Facebook Audit, and Part 3: Google Audit).
What is visibility?The hallmark of a strong personal brand online is …
Personal Branding Interview: Caterina Fake
Today, I spoke to Caterina Fake, who is the co-founder of Flickr, the Chief Product Officer at Hunch.com and is one of Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people. In this interview, Caterina talks about how she got started with social media, what Hunch.com is, how she’s built her own personal brand and more.
What…