Six Steps To Defeat Mediocrity and Anonymity
I have a wish for you. That is to rise above mediocrity. To do something more amazing than getting your next promotion. To not be a faceless cog in someone else’s machine. To actually grow your personal brand enough that you are known for being awesome, not for keeping your head down or not making …
What’s More Important: Your Brand Or Your Company’s
While your personal brand is important for your career success and personal fulfillment, the brand of the company you work for is also important. How do these two things tie together? Some might think that they conflict, but they can actually enhance one another.
Companies that help employees identify what makes them unique and apply …
What’s In Your Life Raft?
The Screen Actors Guild has a program called Life Raft. Without knowing too much more than that, tonight in Los Angeles at SAG headquarters I am speaking about personal branding to a few hundred actors under the auspices of Life Raft, and moderating a panel featuring the CEOs of several database sites that centralize casting …
Embrace Career Change With A Spirit Of Adventure
This is an excerpt from my new book: Career Transition-make the shift-your 5 steps to successful career reinvention.
“Courage is fear that’s said its prayers”. Dorothy Bernard, author
I decided voluntarily to change my life and lifestyle in 2006, after living and working in the same place for several decades. I moved to take a …
5 Personal Branding Tips To Boost Your Job Search
Do you know that what you have, or don’t have, in your pocket can affect the outcome of your job search?
Experience. Education. Skills. We all know that these factors matter when you’re on the hunt for a new job, but how can the contents of your pocket make a difference? These 5 Personal Branding …
One Idea Will Make You Rich
Fact: You have one idea that will make you rich !
If you read and follow the simple advice below, you will identify that one idea that will catapult your brand (and you) over the top; and I mean over the top financially.
1) Fact: Idea generation is easy. You don’t need to have an …
A Cup of Coffee to Back to the Basics
Some of you out there are just beginning to build your personal brand.
Whether you’re contemplating re-entry into the workforce, searching for a higher-paid position, or exploring future opportunities, one thing is certain: Your online presence is like a public resume. That first page that comes up when you search your name is the online …
SIX Mis-Branding Mistakes That Ensure You Won’t Get Hired!
In Part I of this two-part blog we looked at three of the six most common mis-branding mistakes that can effectively—and quickly!—eliminate you from the hiring game. In this, the second part of the blog, we’ll examine the other three most common mis-branding mistakes that can practically guarantee that you …
Four Ways To Use Gmail To Build Your Network
Gmail may be the social networker’s best friend, because nothing and I mean nothing, lets you connect so quickly, easily, and thoroughly with a new network like Gmail does.
The free functions availableFor one thing, you can feed any email account into your Gmail account. I run my business account and three other personal …
Do You Look The Brand?
Every Wednesday I moderate #brandchat – a high velocity twitter chat that happens weekly all around the subject of brands and branding. David Sandusky and I co-founded the chat two years ago. Who knew that every week for two years we would be here – with a library of tidbits, resources and some stellar thought …