5 Writing Tips for Personal Branding Success
Writing plays a key role at every step in your journey to personal branding success.
Efficient and effective writing skills are central to your ability to express yourself and differentiate yourself from your competition, so you can get noticed, trusted, and assume increased responsibilities.
Here are 5 simple tips to help you improve the quality …
How Thought Crimes Kill Personal Brands
After leading a weekend boot camp in Personal Branding on the UCLA campus, I am worn out and so are our “campers.” Sixteen hours of anything is hard, and personal branding is no exception. It’s not like we were lifting boulders or building walls, except that we were: mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
The first stage …
Personal Branding Blog Weekly and Social Calls to Action
No matter the job or the tragedy you can build or rebuild your personal brand. That seemed to be our theme this last week as many still recovering from Hurricane Sandy are still dealing with the destruction and getting their bearing on their life, home and career.
The Young Entrepreneurs Council also …
The Power Of Being Vulnerable
Several years ago, I went to an all-day Get Motivated Seminar at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.
While I always enjoy some inspiration, I did not attend that day to “get motivated.” I went to study the speakers. As a relatively new professional speaker at that point of my career, I wanted to observe …
Hurricanes, Destruction and Rebuilding: The Only Constant is Change!
My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of Hurricane Sandy. This catastrophic event sent shock waves across the country; she threatened the stability of our lives and underscored how little control we really have at certain times in our lives. With billions of dollars in property loss and the death toll having climbed …
No Matter the Job, You Can Build Your Brand
Some people have a tendency by some to look down upon more entry-level jobs; jobs like retail, food service, cleaning or landscaping. Most of us have held these types of jobs at some point in our careers. While these jobs are not renowned for being high paying resume builders – they do pose an opportunity …
What Have You Been Doing While I Was Gone
Have you ever been asked this question? Have you ever asked someone else this question?
If yes. Did the question cause a lot of anxiety or angst? It shouldn’t. Not if you were expecting it.
To me this is a reasonable question that one can expect to be asked. I think this is a question …
Positive People Attract People and Breed Successful Careers
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
Have you ever noticed how attractive and likeable someone is when they have a positive attitude? They have a natural tendency to look at the cup as half full, not half empty. Every situation they …
Where Success is Really Hidden
Not all successful people are happy. Some successful people are stressed out, miserable, angry, frustrated, depressed and lonely. They are barely able to get up in the morning. They trudge through the day. They might as well be breaking rocks on a chain gang in a 110-degree heat, with no water breaks. Their health is …
Learning from Henry Ford | Productivity Tips for Personal Branding
Unlike most individuals interested in building their personal brands in today’s world, Henry Ford didn’t reinvent the wheel every time he produced a car.
Rather, Henry Ford created an efficient system, or process, for building and selling cars.
Once he perfected the system, he was able to refine and fine-tune the process until his …