Your Networking Piggy Bank
Would you be motivated to network if whenever you shook hands with someone, you got a penny? Would you be inspired to take action if you got a nickel when you shared information with another? How about if you got a dime when you provided encouragement to a person who was down? The answer to …
Brands Have More Fun in 2011
With a bright new start to 2011, let’s just face a couple of facts. This is the year for making smarter moves when it comes to building an unforgettable personal brand, but there’s one condition: It requires having more fun with your brand.
Why? There’s a new brand landscape out there, all the rules have …
A Cup of Coffee to 2010’s Biggest Branding Takeaways
Lest history repeat itself throughout 2011, there are many significant branding takeaways from 2010 that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Here are my Top Three 2010 Branding Takeaways. Please leave a comment below and add to the list of the Biggest 2010 Branding Takeaways!
1) Your Brand Must Be Backed By a Quality Product.
People will follow …
Be A Good Sport
Sportsmanship is not limited to games played on fields, courts, and courses. After all, what is sport? It is simply athletic competition. Absent the athletics, it is merely competition.
As a human being, you compete every day, do you not? In your career. In business. At home, subtly, with neighbors. The entire human existence – …
Evaluating Your Personal Brand-Building Success During 2010
As a prelude to the fast-approaching New Year, here are some questions to ask yourself as you evaluate your progress building your personal brand-building efforts during 2010:
Writing & publishing a brand-building bookDid you publish a book during 2011, or make significant progress towards publishing a brand-building book? Or, do you still feel writing …
3 More Personal Branding Predictions for 2011
Recently, Dan Schawbel released his seven personal branding predictions for 2011. Among them:
Your online personal brand will be consolidated Soft skills become more important than hard skills As the economy gets better, the war for talent ignites Social networks will become completely ineffective for one-to-many marketing efforts Personal brands have more responsibilities Social media…What’s Your UBS-Unique Brand Style
“Everything you need is already inside of you.”
So, you are invited to a business party or event. You walk in and pretty much everyone is dressed in some form of black, blue, gray, brown, or beige. Then your eyes catch someone wearing a royal blue, cherry red, banana yellow, lavender something. Your eyes naturally …
Your SMART New Year’s Resolution
How many New Year’s resolutions have you made that weren’t smart? For that matter, how many have you made that you can even remember? Outside of my ones about a boyfriend and more exercise, not only do I not remember mine, I clearly don’t keep them. (Or I would still be relishing my successes.)
That’s …
Brand Review, Anyone?… (Before Ringing in the New Year?)
You’re counting the days. You’re doing things like taking stock, assessing your life, re-evaluating what you’ve accomplished in the last twelve months, and of course, you’re determined to make 2011 the best year ever. Yes/No?!
Hurrah. So let me pose two questions: (1) Is taking an Unofficial Review of your Personal Brand on your To …
A Cup of Coffee to Context
A few years ago, The Washington Post was looking for an answer to the following questions: “In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?” and “If not in the right context, do we recognize talent?”
To find the answer, they put something “beautiful” in a common environment, at an inappropriate …