Your Brand, Work Ethic or Luck?
I know a lot of people who work hard but who haven’t made it big yet. It makes me wonder what truly breeds success: is it work ethic or is it luck?
I listen to Gary Vaynerchuk religiously (@garyvee on Twitter). He talks about hustle and how work ethic is what you need to be …
An Audacious Way to Build an Online Brand
Last week, Jamie Varon made waves in the Twitter and Gen Y communities with a career advice post about her last job and a new website to get Twitter to hire her. I caught up with her to talk about what she’s doing to build her online personal brand – and ask how she comes …
7 Ways to Land Great Consulting Work While In Between Jobs
It is no secret that I am currently funding my job search through consulting work. This has many career-management benefits, but today I’m going to write about the only one you probably care about – green stuff to make your rent and buy groceries. Here are 7 ways to get yourself started and turn your …
Personal Brand Organization Tips
Okay, so you are comfortable with getting your personal brand out there on the web. But periodically you are going to have to monitor, prune and synchronize it to keep it fresh. Here are a few tips for keeping your personal brand clean, organized and synchronized.
MonitorTons have been written about monitoring technologies for …
Success Story: Build Your Dream One LinkedIn Contact at a Time
I love hearing your personal branding success stories, so if you have one, please email me ([email protected]) and I’ll post it on this blog. I’ve blogged about seven success stories on this blog and look forward to hearing each one. I like inspiring others with personal branding success stories.
Here are a few from the …
Success Story: Accept a Facebook Friend Request and a New Job
I love hearing your personal branding success stories, so if you have one, please email me ([email protected]) and I’ll post it on this blog.
Today’s source of inspiration comes from one of my good friends, Scott Bradley. Scott, just like Jason Alba, Ann Handley, Chris Russell, Tiffany Monhollon, Adam Salamon, Rebecca Thorman, Paul Gillin, Drew …
Success Story: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Personal Branding
From time to time, I like to post success stories to show you that personal branding DOES work. If you have your own story, please email me. Today, Paul will be talking about his story on how he transformed his life by establishing his brand and then realizing that he should be constantly meeting new …
Success Story: One Brand One Tweet One Job
I love following Jeremiah Owyang’s blog. He is very creative for starting a “People on the move in the social media industry” series of posts. In Jeremiah’s last post, I saw a really good note about someone getting a job by using Twitter and jumped on it. I haven’t heard too many stories of people …
Success Story: Personal Branding Instills Both Passion and Happiness in Our World
Maor Kaplanski is the top personal branding evangelist in Israel and is finally ready to tell his success story. He positions himself as a Personal eBrand and Online Reputation Management Expert. He is the first to establish the term personal eBrand in Israel through his Blog INTERNETISHI. Over just a few months, the blog attracted …
Success Story: African Student Turned Global Brand
Who is Willard Barure?
“My name is Willard Barure and I am a global brand. I am outgoing , good humoured and emotionally stable although i am not seeing anyone at the moment. I am a University student and i am an establishing stand up comedian who is lloking to elevate myself to an international …