Do You Handle Rejection or Does It Handle You?
Dealing with rejection is a major bummer.
Whether it is from a date, a client or a job posting, rejection tends to bring up the worst kind of questions in ourselves: the plague of self-doubt.
“Was it me? Am I good enough? Of course I’m not good enough. I knew this would happen!”
And before …
Be Authentic – To a Point
The other day, I was at an event where the speaker was advising attendees about the power of authenticity. During the Q&A, one of the audience members raised her hand and asked about how much authenticity the speaker advised. As the audience member explained, she was just beginning a career as a freelance copywriter, but …
3 Personal Branding Lessons from the Presidential Candidates
Personal branding can make or break your chances of professional success. In the court of public opinion, your only chance of winning favor is to have a cohesive brand that others respect. With November 6 less than two months away, the stakes are high–there can only be one winner. For the presidential candidates, success is …
Cool, Clever Trends Help Personal Branding!
I have been watching, following and studying trends for many years. To see how demographics, events, cycles all intersect, converge and impact our lives in such immediate and long lasting ways is fascinating! The financial and banking collapse at the end of 2008, was a long time in coming, but once it hit it changed …
Personal Branding Weekly and Word of Mouth Follow-Up
This week we covered deadly sins, the curse of the expert, pitfalls to your brand in the waiting room and the “do’s and don’ts” of preserving your brand even when you say good-bye.
If you missed it, here they are in one easy place:
The Parent Dilemma by Jun Loayza Job Search Improvements: Customize Personal…The 10 Commandments For Concrete Confidence (Part 2)
Last week, I discussed how your self-image forms the foundation of your personal brand, and we covered the first 5 of “The 10 Commandments For Concrete Confidence.” Here are #6-10:
6. Surround yourself with winners. Attitudes are contagious. If you consistently hang out with negative, defeated people, you will develop a more negative mindset. If …
Five Aspects of Your Personal Brand You’re Forgetting
It’s easy to overlook core aspects of your personal brand.
Why?
Well, for the same reason that Coke hires an agency to make their Super Bowl ads. Its a heck-of-a-lot easier to look at someone’s else’s personal brand and dissect it or improve it than it is our own.
True story.
To help with this, …
5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
As my first post for the Personal Branding Blog I have thought for a while about what I wanted to write. I have a pile of ideas that I will be sharing every week about everything from tips and tricks, for getting things done while working for a large corporation or with solo-preneurs, to how …
Why I Joined App.net
Oy vey, another social network. But one worth investing in, for now.
What is App.net?
CEO Dalton Caldwell explains it best:
Join the Movement at join.app.net from AppDotNet on Vimeo.
In a nutshell, App.net is a new social network that looks like Twitter and that works like Twitter, but that also addresses Twitter’s main problems …
Create Your Personal Brand…then Be It!
I just finished writing my third book and included a section on branding. Putting it together was eye-opening because it forced me to think about my personal brand. After all, in telling other creative professionals how to innovate and advance their brands, I thought about whether I was following my own advice.
One thing I …