Finding a Void and Filling It
For brands today, the competition is fierce. Unemployment rates are up, and businesses are struggling to survive. To succeed in this world, your personal or small business brand needs to be invaluable. You need to offer the world something unique, something that makes you stand out. Basically, to be successful today, you need to find …
Do You Have An Intern Or A Team Member?
As a follow-up to my post a few weeks ago defending the practice of unpaid internships, I thought I’d speak about how changing the mindset of how viewing interns can make all the difference for you and them.
What do I mean? Seeing them as team members. Not just interns.
If you’re not willing to …
Personal Branding For Two Sides Of Your Life
How do you do personal branding for two sides of your life? What if you have two jobs in two wholly separate worlds? And what if each of those jobs could negatively affect the other — like being a hit man and a politician.
I received an email from David — who is not a …
Do You Invite Criticism? Maybe You Should!
Well, maybe not only criticism, but reviews and feedback of your work. We can pat ourselves on our backs all we want, but as personal brands, it is only when we engage in both positive and negative discussions that we truly have an audience with value.
The knowledge we receive from criticismWith knowledge of …
7 Personal Branding Tips For Introverts
In the workforce, having a successful career can often be about personal branding and forging connections with others in the industry. But these things can be tough for introverts, who are naturally prone to desire time alone, prefer personal reflection and thought, and are often very shy.
This can be intimidating when entering a professional …
Bringing Your Personal Brand To Life In Your Work
Over the past handful of years, somehow I’ve become known as “the shoe girl” in my office. My last job, my new job… people have taken notice that I’m definitely into shoes. And I have the closet to back it up. As well as VIP status on Zappos. What can I say? I love me …
Willpower: The Fuel Behind Your Career And Your Brand
If you are a regular reader of this blog and other personal branding quality materials, you are probably convinced by now out that your brand is one of your greatest (if not ‘the’ greatest) intangible assets at your disposal. It is also absolutely key to the build-up and development of your career in these most …
5 More WordPress Plugins For Personal Brand-Building Bloggers
Another selection of useful WordPress plugins that build your brand while helping your readers.
1. Jetpack
Official description: “a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.”
Jetpack comes from Automattic, the creators of WordPress, so you know it’s high quality.
Although technically one plugin, Jetpack’s combination of …
Get Sticky With an Acrostic
Sandler Success Principles: 11 Insights that will change the way you Think and Sell makes you SMARTER. Why the capital letters? Because SMARTER is an acrostic – a word with letters that when taken in order spell out an easy-to-remember phrase.
Sandler Success Principles became an instant Amazon bestseller last week, in part because Sandler’s …
The Personal Brand That Will Close Deals
I’m 26 years old – no longer the youngest guy in the room in Silicon Valley. I feel my age is an advantage though; sure, it doesn’t get me the 18-year-old with a start-up press, but investors, potential hires, and my current team take me more seriously because I’m older.
But it’s a whole different …