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Defining Your Assets and Competitive Edge for Your Brand

I’ve written before on how to discover your personal brand, but in this post I’ll take it a step further by discussing defining your assets and competitive edge – particularly during a job search.

Another way to think about assets and competitive edge is your unique selling point(s). What makes you better than your competition? …

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A Cup of Coffee to Taking a Step Back

For those who are persistent and driven to reach their goals, the constant launch and unveiling of Today’s-Hottest-Wow-Oh-My-God-This-Is-The-Next-Greatest-Thing-That-Will-Replace-Everything-You’ve-Just-Mastered-And-If-You-Don’t-Switch-To-It-By-Tomorrow-At-This-Time You-Will-Become-Completely-Irrelevant tools, it’s easy to forget that you’ve come a long way, baby. (Quick – what brand did that 1970’s slogan sell?)

After relentlessly working on your personal brand for weeks upon months – and for some, …

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5 Little-Known Factors Could Affect Your Personal Brand

Although it’s a constant uphill battle to build your brand, destroying or severely damaging it is scarily easy. In that vein, you’ll want to stay away from the following practices:

Appearing Unfocused

You might have multiple interests or passions. Think about which is the most important or most developed to focus your brand around. It …

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A Cup of Coffee to “Personal Branding for Job Search Success”

I got a sneak peek of Joshua Waldman’s newest ebook, “Personal Branding for Job Search Success.”

Joshua is the founder of career consulting agency, Career Enlightenment.  As an author, speaker, trainer and consultant, Joshua teaches technology skills that help businesses grow and job seekers get noticed.

Joshua writes, “The realities of the new job market …

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Advance Your Personal Brand and Let Content Persuade

Personal branders know objections and resistance are a part of the personal branding process and there are many great resources that detail strategies for handling objections. Many of these strategies focus on how to handle objections verbally in either face to face encounters or over the phone. There is much less thought leadership on how …