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 …
How to Build and Inspire A Team
In my 6 years of entrepreneurship, I’ve learned that the team is the most important part of the equation. Therefore, a single founder shouldn’t spend the majority of his time looking for funding, or building a product; instead, the single founder should spend the majority of his time building the perfect team.
The anatomy of…Personal Branding Weekly and Conference Focus
Editor’s Note: Because I was attending New Media Expo 2013 last Sunday, I didn’t have the opportunity to fully introduce you to one of our newest authors – Peter Sterlacci.
Peter is known as “Japan’s personal branding pioneer” and is one of only 15 Master level Certified Personal Branding Strategists in the …
Branding Yourself as an Intrapreneur in a “Belonging” Culture
In the January 2011 issue of Entrepreneur, Richard Branson shares an interesting story about being a “belonger” where he resides in the British Virgin Isles. The airport signs for the immigration lines read “Belongers” and “Non-Belongers,” rather than “Residents” and “Nonresidents.” He goes on to say that when a nation embraces its own as “belonging …
Feeling Lucky Wins the Game
The moment friends asked us to play a particular card game, I knew I was going to win. Understand, the game is half strategy and half luck. There was no doubt in my mind I would win and I did. And this relates directly to my favorite sales strategy – knowing that you are skilled …