Podcast: 9 Reasons for Your Personal Branding Strategy
What advice do you have for founders who want to start a podcast and don’t know where to start?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program …
Building A Meaningful Legacy
What will your footprint look like?
Building an Inspired Business is the usual topic of my entries based upon helping communities at large as well as helping those following in your footsteps. But today’s article is a tribute to a relative by marriage who managed to immigrate to the United States and leave a wonderful …
What Type Of Personal Brand Are You?
One of the best things about creating your personal brand is it helps you market unique qualities about yourself. The more time you invest in developing your brand and networking with people in your industry, you’ll discover how some professionals possess a similar one to yours.
Once you have established your personal brand and you …
Negotiate a Win-Win Solution in the Workplace
Most people don’t like negotiating and try to avoid it at all costs. However, like it or not negotiating is part of our lives and we need to learn how to negotiate win-win solutions for both parties especially if we want to achieve our goals.
Negotiating is a skill essential to improve our personal brand …
Will Your Personal Brand Mature in 30 Years?
In last Sunday’s New York Times, journalist Jessica Grose proudly proclaims her status as the childish sound of the Millennial Generation. She has been repeatedly criticized for sounding like a twelve year old, which is a problem for the audience listening to podcasts she appears in. Not just any podcast: at Slate magazine’s podcasts. This …
LinkedIn Skill Endorsements
Those who use LinkedIn may have noticed on profiles, one can now endorse someone’s skills. By clicking on a skill box, you can virtually attest to another person’s abilities. Did you think your contact did a great job implementing a new IT system, why not endorse her “Project Management” skill? Did a contact deliver a …
The Best Way to Leverage Your Personal Brand
The best way to leverage one’s personal brand is to be able to communicate effectively at Level 2 Communication, which I identify as “public communication” or public speaking.
It’s been said that public speaking is one of the greatest personal fears, greater than the fear of death. Jerry Seinfeld has even joked that most people …
Personal Branding Weekly – 29 July 2013
Managing your personal brand while you’re on vacation is not easy. You’ll need to make decisions on how you want to handle your social media accounts. Do you automate? Do you try to keep up via your mobile phone and chance distracting yourself from wonderful vacation moments? Do you delegate it out to someone? Or, …
Build Your Brand with Hashtags
Do you want to be seen as a subject matter expert?
If so, leveraging the power of hashtags is a quick and relatively easy way to build your brand around a particular topic. Hashtags are a word or short phrase, preceded by the number sign,#, that allows people to easily follow and join conversations around …
Recruiting the Effective Job Applicant
While there is no perfect employee, some job seekers are much more effective than others. These are the individuals who are indispensable to their companies.
By effective, I am referring to someone who delivers results. They don’t need to be micromanaged. Recruiting the effective job applicant means staffing someone who is going to deliver earnings.…