How to Manage Two Personal Brands
Personal branding requires you to craft a professional image by communicating your unique interests, skills, and expertise. Your personal brand should reflect not only your professional interests, but it should also provide specific insight into your industry to show others what you know. But what happens if you need to promote two very different personal …
Do the Opposite of What the Industry Leaders Do
When people dig for gold, don’t pick up a shovel and dig with them; instead, sell shovels.
The best way to stand out above the crowd is to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. But for companies and professionals, it doesn’t make sense to blindly go against the crowd. Instead, it’s best …
Reducing Friction: Too Many Minds
There’s a scene in the movie “The Last Samurai” that I absolutely love; in this scene, Tom Cruise keeps getting beat by a swordsman in training. His friend approaches him and says, “Please forgive; too many mind… mind the sword, mind the people watch, mind enemy – -too many mind.”
The lesson learned: when you …
13 Offline Resources to Build Your Personal Brand
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC recently published #FixYoungAmerica: How to Rebuild Our Economy and Put Young Americans Back to Work (for Good), …
The YEC Retooling and Retraining The American Workforce
Editor’s Note: The YEC is an organization that partners with us and authors many blog posts here. The YEC seeks to retool and retrain the American workforce with mentorship from successful startups.
America’s Top Entrepreneurs and Citi Set Out to Mentor the Nation’s Aspiring Business Owners
This Labor Day weekend, the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) …
3 Reasons Why Your Personal Brand Strategy Requires Video
Remember when you first created a website? You needed to include a newsletter sign-up, then decided to add social elements like Facebook and Twitter…but later Pinterest and Google+ came along. It seems like there is always something NEW to explore.
So as the summer ends and you get back into work mode, it’s time to …
Rules for Assuming the Sale
You may have previously been advised to “Assume the sale”. The implied characteristics of doing so are to speak with confidence and assume you will get the sale as you begin to meet with your clientele until otherwise notified.
However, along with the advice come inherent problems. The #1 error made by most businesspeople is …
Entrepreneurship Will Leap Frog Your Career
Entrepreneurship and career advancement make the perfect couple! The combination is equivalent to having your cake and eating it too.
When you next move to doing the exact opposite of where you currently are at, you will learn at a far more rapid rate. Especially if you prefer the type of position you have but …
Best Questions to Ask a Business Mentor
Entrepreneurs can learn so much from a reliable business mentor. Aspiring businesspersons will realize that a good mentoring relationship is similar to having a big brother in the industry. Experienced entrepreneurs know the ropes, have an excellent network of friends, and are able to overcome great challenges. There are numerous benefits of having a fully-engaged …
Entrepreneurial Exam Reveals Improved Grade
It is said, “Summertime and the living is easy”. We seem to enjoy more of what life has to offer when the warmer weather finally arrives. And my theory is, while we are in this more relaxed state, it proves to be the best time to fully examine our current entrepreneurial status.
Challenge Yourself to…