Standing Out with Polyvore
Have you heard about Polyvore? It’s a social networking site where people can look for brands and products and create their own collections called sets. Once you’ve created a set, you can share it with your friends and the whole Polyvore community. People can comment on your set, and you can also comment on other …
Personal Branding Your Way Through A Career Pivot
Do you know the most important part of making a career pivot?
It’s not learning about your new path or building a new network. It’s not developing a strong plan or honing new skills.
It’s your story.
Don’t believe me? A director of people operations at Google stated “I want to hear the plan they …
Championing Needs of Many Over Needs of You
Let’s face it. We’re all trying to grow awareness of ourselves in various ways. And in doing so, we tend to look to our own numbers, like Followers, Connections, Fans and more. I should know. I’ve stared at those numbers as much as anyone.
But as I’ve become lucky enough to join the company of …
Who Is On Your Human Bucket List?
Do you have a “human bucket list” of people you would like to meet? Are you interested in injecting some new life into your connection circle? If not, I certainly would challenge you to do so. You might not need a job or a favor today, but chances are in the near future you will.…
Control Your Brand’s Search Results With BrandYourself
Establishing a brand becomes increasingly difficult when you can’t be found online – and it’s a common scenario. When you type your name into a search engine, how many links that belong to you show up? If you’re lucky, you might find just one on the first page of results, while the rest belong to …
At Last, Your Brand and Connect.Me
Today’s highly competitive and digitized world has really changed the game for brands, both business and personal. Though advertisements may still attract your clients’ or customers’ attention, these aren’t enough to convince them to secure your services or buy your products. People are doing their research, asking for referrals and recommendations from people they know, …
Trust Your Worth
No matter what you’re doing personal branding for, there will come a time you’ll get asked that terrifying question: “how much?” That’s the one most people struggle with the most: you don’t want to be too high – or you won’t get the business, and you don’t want to be too low – or you’ll …
6 Tools Better Than An FAQs Page
Picture that someone has just absorbed your home page and perhaps dove into your other pages. They’re crossing an important point where they’ve gone from ordinary visitor to more interested party. They may not be ready to BUY just yet, but it’s reasonable to expect that they’re moving toward having an initial conversation, right?
They …
Your Résumé Should NOT Include A Headshot
Just don’t do it.
“But what if I—”
No.
“But what about—?”
No!
“But I like to—”
No!
Unless you are a model or an actor applying for a modeling gig or auditioning for a part, you should never, ever, ever, ever, EV-VER …
Eliminating The Nerves Of Networking
Do you walk away from networking situations feeling like it was a display of your best you? Or do you walk out the door feeling like you missed out on great relationships simply because you were too nervous?
Looking at those who network best, it seems to be some natural trait that they were born …