Want to Work from Home?
Are you tired of waking up and driving to the office every day? Do you want to have a better work-life balance? Do you want to spend more time with your family? Then, working from home might be a good career choice for you. Holding a job where you can work from home is still …
New Book for Your Personal Branding Enhancement
To write The CEO Difference: How to Climb, Crawl, and Leap Your Way to the Next Level of Your Career (McGraw-Hill, Feb. 2014) I asked over one-hundred CEOs and C-suite executives these three questions:
What causes someone to positively stand out in your eyes? What do you look for in people you promote? And, what…Extreme Loss Provides Invaluable Lessons for Recovery
A new community among an elite few entrepreneurs is evident, and apparently it is taking the model from Alcoholics Anonymous. Confessions are coming forth from these entrepreneurs revealing the many millions of dollars lost in their respective businesses.
Expressing the loss publicly appears to be a part of the healing and recovery process. The honesty …
3 Tips for Networking with Business Cards
It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for a career or operating a company, business cards are a critical part of branding yourself.
If you don’t have some already, think of them as miniature resumes — giving the recipient a glimpse into who you are and what you might be able to offer them. Although they …
Change Vocabulary to Build Relations and Increase Sales
Upon beginning in business, we are told, “You have to follow this system, or you will not be successful.” The larger picture certainly needs to be understood in order to successfully move forward from your starting point. But, it is when we are able to craft that process into almost an art form that recognition …
Are You Making Enough Money?
I suspect most people feel they need more money — not just to support their current lifestyle, but to provide for the one they aspire to.
Despite the risk of sounding politically incorrect or money grubbing: You want to make the big bucks. You don’t have to aspire to being a 1%’er, but you should …
Personal Branding Weekly – Your Insincere Brand
All business is personal and is built upon your relationships with individuals. People carry forth (or don’t) the mission of the brand in daily actions. A company’s brand is the mission in action put forth by a conglomeration of many personal brands.
I took the time to trace that relationship because so many brands are …
Advance Business Using One Secret Strategy
Do you sometimes get frustrated with offers expressed as seemingly helping you but in reality do not value your time and experience? Put in this situation, most people will either give away their services far below their worth or will walk away without trying to find a solution to the problem.
The secret strategy is …
Entrepreneurial Spirit: Ground Zero to Finding Success
The entrepreneurial spirit believes that quitting is acceptable only after success has been found but not before. Even though a new direction may be found, the experience of the previous route remains a teacher for the new.
It is the spirit and drive of the person that is bound and determined to learn from errors …
Learn How to Improve from What You’re Learning
You don’t have to come into a situation knowing it all. But you do have to come in wanting to learn.
Gathering useful knowledge from many sources is one of the most underrated qualities of a leader. Good leaders constantly seek it, collect it, and store it into their brains, computers, or trusted administrative assistants.…