Personal Branding Weekly – Sunday, March 31st
Joyful greetings to you! No matter what holiday you are celebrating, we are grateful and thankful for your readership and hope that you’re enjoying a day focused on family and fun.
This week – here are the great posts that might have slipped by you with the shortened work week, school week or even spring …
How To Be Incredibly Productive Every Day (Part 3)
In recent articles, you’ve learned how to be incredibly productive every day by planning the day the night before and by keeping track of how you spend your time. While these practical strategies will definitely boost your productivity, it’s still possible to get thrown off track, especially if you work in a dynamic, fast-paced work …
Debunking Personal Brand Cultural Myths: Part 2
This is part 2 of a monthly series where I am sharing ‘myths’ of personal branding. While these myths are typical within Japanese culture, they can easily be debunked in other cultures around the world as well. Make sure to also read about myth #1, “I have to give up my group identity.“
Personal Branding…Entrepreneurs that Utilize their Online Reputation to Get Customers
When I first started as an entrepreneur in 2007, my company was called FD Career. Our goal was to build a virtual community to help make the brick and mortar business world more effective and productive. My role within the organization was sales and marketing, and I was in charge of obtaining new clients. My …
Your Leadership Stinks: 10 Tips for Leadership Branding
Nothing is worse than seeing a personal brand with great potential ruined by poor leadership qualities. This is often a person who exhibits traits of blind authoritarianism, forgets their own accountability, and lacks listening skills. Do you know a person like this?
Whether or not you’re currently in a leadership role, an intelligent grasp of …
5 Things You Control In How Google Brands You
Amazingly, all of what Google publishes and how it brands is about how WE choose to serve, act and react. Transparency today gives us no-where to hide.
If you do it, say it or post it, you will be found and outed. Just Google people or companies and you will see many examples of this. …
Personal Branding Weekly and Handling “No”
I planned the topic of this post and actually wrote it well before my recent auto purchasing experience. Lo and behold the salesman that we told ‘no’ ended up calling 22 times in a 25 minute period – how’s that for a first impression?
This past week we talked about boundaries, planning …
How To Be Incredibly Productive Every Day (Part 2)
Note: you can click here for Part 1 in this series.
In one recent visit to the gym, I saw someone filling out a crossword puzzle while using a leg curl machine, I saw another person who took nearly 10 minutes to read the newspaper in between two sets of crunches, and I saw a …
Do or Don’t, Actions Matter to Personal Branding Success
What we do matters to our personal brand–just as much as what we don’t.
I was speaking to a client yesterday and bringing him through my on-boarding process. The job wasn’t a big one–it was quite in fact a tiny job. Having been wrapped up in a big job and a few personal matters, I …
5 Branding Moves To Turn Your Co-Workers Against You
With employees spending more time in the workplace than ever before, functioning with co-workers has become essential. It’s easy to find some annoyances when spending so much time with a group of people, but what if you’re doing something that’s secretly turning your teammates against you?
Self-assessment is a crucial part of maintaining your personal …