Direct Sellers: How to Quickly Focus Your Brand
Having a home based business holds a lot of advantages like flexible hours and being your own boss. You can even take vacations whenever you please. These are all enticing and a lot of people would actually prefer having their own business instead of going to work. Yet, like most things that hold an advantage, …
Your Personal Brand Needs a Mindset Shift
Its common knowledge that you need a personal brand to succeed on the job and on the job market. Yet many people – even those with a personal brand – find themselves underemployed, unemployed or simply dissatisfied with their current position.
Hence dissatisfaction, stagnation and boredom are viewed as normal and even acceptable.
Well, it …
90% of Us Should Come Out of Our Shell
At any given cocktail party and networking event, sometimes you’ll see a circle of people that, at first, appear to be interacting with one another.
But look closer.
Of a group of 8, you’ll have one or two loud people who dominate the conversation while the rest don’t talk nearly as much. The give-and-take among …
‘Long Live Personal Branding’: A Response to Olivier Blanchard
It was long overdue that someone should “sound the death knell of all things personal branding”. After all, we personal branding enthusiasts should not expect we deserve any better treatment than SEO, Klout or Facebook (let alone, as Nietzsche proclaimed, God). This time round the honor belongs to blogger and author Olivier Blanchard, who in …
Veterans Still Facing Unique Challenges in 2012 Job Market
Most people are certainly aware that the job market of the last several years has been brutal for millions of Americans. What most people probably are not aware of, however, is that it has been especially brutal for our military veterans, particularly our younger veterans. Unemployment among this group of young men and women is …
5 More Personal Branding Trends For 2012
The new year is finally here, and it’s a perfect time for job seekers to revamp their personal brands!
Resolutions aside (though those are important, too), every personal brander should be aware of the direction personal branding is headed in 2012. Some trends are evergreen and some are just emerging, but take note for your …
What Oprah Teaches You About “Audience”
She’s clear about what gaps in our lives we are hoping to fill by tuning her in or attending a function where she’ll be.
Ask yourself now: Do you know anything important about your audiences? Do you know why we are here and what matters to us? Do you know what gaps in our lives…Direct Sellers – Content and Credibility
Direct Sellers, your company already briefed, trained, and provided you with the materials that you need in order to sell your products. So, what can you do to be able to sell your products as fast and efficiently as possible? What can you do to reach out and network more, establish trust quicker, host more …
Why Optimism Is A Brand’s Best Friend
What’s your brand vibe and aura? How do people describe your brand style?
How you choose to share about your challenge and difficulty defines your brand communication style. When you focus on the process you are going through and solutions, it has a better purpose and appeal. Several of my friends have dealt with health …
Personal Branding Author Interview: James Marshall Reilly
Today, I spoke to James Marshall Reilly who is the author of Shake The World: It’s Not About Finding a Job, It’s About Creating a Life and the founder of Guild Agency Speakers Bureau & Intellectual Talent Management. Reilly was honored at the White House as one of the Top 100 entrepreneurs in the U.S. …