Book Marketing for Personal Branding Success
In today’s content-oriented world, book and ebook marketing are essential tools for personal branding success.
Books and ebooks offer a fast-track to your personal branding success. They demonstrate your expertise, showcase your understanding of your prospects’ needs, and prove your ability to help others solve their problems and achieve their goals.
Whether you’re goal is …
Moving from Disappointment to Success
Have you ever felt like giving up?
We tend to believe highly successful people are either born with a silver spoon in their mouth, they got lucky, or were brilliant from the moment of birth. They never had a bad day in their life. And then we wonder, “Why couldn’t we be that lucky?”
Reality …
How to Brand Yourself Outside of Your Career
We know your personal brand is all about how other people see you. It’s how we market ourselves to others. Usually, when we think about our personal brand, we tend to focus on the professional aspects to further our careers.
But what we do in the workplace is not the only thing that impacts our …
How LinkedIn Can Help You Get Your Dream Offer
If you still don’t have a LinkedIn account or you think LinkedIn isn’t worth the time, think again. LinkedIn is one of the most effective networking tools. It can help you reach key people, get your dream offer and move your career to the next level.
If someone you know is already working in a …
Personal Brands: Clap, Laugh, Yell Bravo
Paid to clap? Paid to wait at a stage door and clamor for autographs? Paid to laugh, gasp and otherwise do the right thing in the audience? Yes. It’s a job. At the Moscow Bolshoi ballet, you may find yourself sitting among those who show up to admire, in exchange for free tickets and other …
The Human Motivation Equation
I was reading another article on PersonalBrandingBlog.com last week and was inspired by Sharmin Banu’s article on finding your own unique aspirations.
It triggered me because one of the frequent questions I‘m asked by clients and prospects is about how they can motivate employees to perform better and take more initiative on the job. My …
Building Your Brand at Your New Job
The national news outlets have been touting an uptick in hiring over the past year and if you are beginning a new role with a new organization, it is time to consider to your personal brand. During the interview process, you may have communicated your brand to the search committee by use of stories and …
Personal Branding Weekly – Gambling Your Brand
Taking more risks and letting your hair down when there’s an air of anonymity because you’re some place you’ve never been or will never be again can have more than interesting consequences with our ever growing social footprint. Our social memories are lasting.
This has been the topic of many tweets, updates and blog posts …
All Work, No Play = No Work, No Play
There were times when I was running my company where I spent so much time working that I forgot about living. That’s not something that I’m proud of, but it’s something that happened. I was building a company, a brand, and I was unstoppable, literally. So unstoppable in fact, that I didn’t stop for evenings, …
When LinkedIn Can Hurt the Recent Graduate
For recent graduates, LinkedIn has provided a platform that allows the young graduate to apply to a mass quantity of job openings with little to no effort.
The ease of the application process coupled with the curiosity in many different fields lends the graduate to apply, in some cases to over 100 positions. While they …