Personal Branding Weekly and Your Networks
Editor’s Note: This week we covered working remotely and managing expectations. With all our Google Hangouts, Skype meetings and chats, I’m painfully aware that many people look at their screen and not at the camera. Even across video chat, “not making eye contact” can have a negative effect on your brand. How …
3 Strategies to Encourage Increased Business
Have you lost business? Consider this scenario:
“Anna” reported that she wanted to order an expensive cake from a highly reputable bakery. Upon recognizing the baker was too busy to consult, and the other employee tasked with calling back was pre-occupied, Anna took her business elsewhere.
The eternal sales motto is, “Make …
To Startup Is No Longer the Question
It’s become so easy to build a startup: all it takes is a $100 or an intro to a group of well connected entrepreneurs to get your juices flowing. It’s no longer a question about how to start a company, but rather, what type of company should you start.
The following are the different types …
An ‘Ambitious Entrepreneur’ in Japan
Do you find yourself in a market where fitting in is the norm making it difficult for you to stand out? Then this podcast is a must-listen.
I was honored to be asked by Annemarie Cross to join The Ambitious Entrepreneur podcast this month to share some insight in how to break away from the …
Windows 8 Personal Branding Apps You Should Be Using
Windows 8 is now a few months’ old. How can you build your brand with it?
As of this writing, there are a few dozen apps that are relevant to personal branders like you. Most of them focus on social media, there’s a lot of feature overlap across the apps, and many of them were …
Marketing Techniques to Grow Attention and Sales
Have you given thought to your title or is it time for an update?
Upon hearing the title, “Director of First Impressions” my attention was immediately grabbed as I cheerfully recognized the title replaced the traditional and boring word, “Receptionist”.
The clever title captures a few important ideas and tips …
Personal Branding Weekly and Owning Your Social Proof
Editor’s Note: It’s been a whirlwind of travel and providing workshop training to groups who are ready to embrace that their business brand is authentically represented by the personal brands that embody their brand.
Travel time provides a great time for me to catch up on reading. Did you have a chance …
5 Sales Techniques to Get Your Call Returned
It happened once again – I wanted to give a company business but no one answered the phone and the mailbox was full. How can they expect to receive business? It’s impossible.
Checking mailboxes should be a daily habit. Returning calls and acting upon requests promptly will make you a highly …
Common Sense Keys For Creating Your Career Success Story
The story of our careers, work and jobs continues to be written and told by all of us living it.
2008-2010 were tumultuous, paradigm shift years that most of us had never known, seen or experienced in our lifetime. We were all forced to deal with change on just about every level of our personal …
Sales Techniques Develop Career Opportunity
“The shortest distance between two points is a diagonal line.” How would you like to find your diagonal in securing your desired job?
Using sales techniques, it’s possible. “Prospecting” to “Fill the sales funnel” increases the possibilities and decreases the time to secure your desired job. Here are proven sales techniques:
1. Practice speaking in …