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 …
How to Know When Your Personal Brand Isn’t Working
You’ve taken all the right steps. You came up with your personal brand, made business cards, customized your resume, wrote cover letters, accumulated recommendations, compiled a portfolio/blog/website, completed your social media profiles, and set up your professional, brand-compatible email account. You’ve networked, applied for jobs, and put yourself out there.
But after all that work, …
The 10 Commandments For Concrete Confidence (Part 1)
Your resume is perfect. Your cover letter is flawless. Your wardrobe would make Coco Chanel or Giorgio Armani jealous. And, guess what?
None of it matters unless you have the confidence to match. The foundation for your personal brand is the way you view yourself. When you have genuine self-confidence, your body language screams, “I’m …
How to Take Your Resume From “Blah” to “Wow”
It seems so simple, doesn’t it? After all, who better knows where you’ve been and what you’ve done than you? Open up your Word file and dump all that information into a pleasing format, forward it to a prospective employer or two, then sit back and wait for the phone to ring.
Before you hit …
Lessons from Snooki: How to Revamp Your Personal Brand
When done properly, personal branding serves to push individuals from relative obscurity to some degree of notoriety in his or her professional field. Effective personal branders move with the tides of the job market and are masters at reinvention.
Some noteworthy examples of such transformations are evident in no stranger a place than reality television, …