7 Signs It’s Time to Reinvent Your Personal Brand
Last week, I read Dorie Clark’s Reinventing You with great interest; it’s a relevant book for anyone interested in personal branding success.
Reinventing You, subtitled Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future, Reinventing You offers a step-by-step guide for evaluating your current brand, your career goals, and the branding success strategies that will help you achieve …
Turn Your Spare Time into Extra Income
Do you want to have an additional income source other than your full-time job? Or maybe you are only employed part-time and you need more work. If you want to find out how to earn some extra money, keep on reading.
Nowadays companies are trying to cut their costs and unfortunately, the easiest way of …
Why Don’t People Follow Good Advice?
Do you ever feel like your good advice is wasted on the people you give it to?
In a recent research project, visitors to McDonalds and Subway restaurants were given slips of paper letting them know their recommended daily calorie total. Actually, the way the research project was run: some were handed a paper with …
Personal Branding Weekly – 22 July 2013
Welcome to a new week with the Personal Branding Blog!
Enjoy and learn from last week’s round-up of great posts and insights:
What Are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself? by Skip Weisman Three Tools to Leverage Your Client’s Brand by Crystal Washington Personal Brands: Are You An “Is, And, Also?” Ok! by Nance Rosen…Your Posture May Reveal More Than You Realize!
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. -Loretta Young
Straighten out your image by learning to stand up straight! -Beth Kuhel
As a kid I vividly recall my mother reminding me to “stand up straight”, “sit-up tall” and her occasionally scoffing at me for slouching. Her interest in having me …
“What do I Want” is a Hard Question
Few weeks back I was giving a talk at a big tech company about focusing on the vision. As usual someone asked this basic question- “I don’t know what my vision is”! I am not surprised. This was my question only a few years ago. Over the years, by resolving my own dilemma and by …
Business Fundamentals for Personal Branding Success
Personal brand building and career success require more than charisma, confidence and passion; you need to know the fundamentals of business and financial management.
Regardless whether you’re planning to continue working for others until you have saved enough to start your own business, or you want to start your own business as soon as possible, …
Handle Critique to Improve Business
“Do you get offended upon hearing critique?”
The heart of the matter is, our ego is at stake when we hear suggestions for improvement whether we ask for recommendations or not. Diplomacy isn’t the major factor although a friendly tone certainly helps, but it is more about whether we are receptive to the idea of …
Personal Brands: Are You An “Is, And, Also?” Ok!
“All the best people are!” That’s what we would have said had we met at an upper crust luncheon still roiling at 4 PM, when too much to drink caused us to wave white wine glasses as we made dramatic, inclusive gestures and generously greeted one another’s secrets. It’s under those country club settings that …
Three Tools to Leverage Your Client’s Brand
Competition is steep in today’s business world. People are constantly bombarded with advertisements, solicitations, and other marketing messages. It pays (literally) to know how to cut through the clutter to make an impact. One of the best ways to outshine the competition and differentiate your personal and/or professional brand is through directly leveraging your clients’ …