49 Personal Branding Questions to Ask Yourself
Here is a fun exercise you can do to really drive home how important it is to create your personal brand. Ask yourself the following 49 questions and really think about the answers. Try writing down the top 5 or 10 areas that you will commit to improve when you find weaknesses. Also, make sure …
True Stories About What It Means To Be Outstanding
Two true stories of people getting noticed for doing their best at what they do best.
Always give your best effortA few years ago when I was still living in Paris, France, and only had two kids, we would take the bus every morning and ride the 4 stops to their nursery, and then …
Don’t Just Do It. Sing It.
Many marketing and business professionals alike follow Seth Godin’s blog from time to time. We have been inundated with his brilliant marketing mind and tend to put his strategies to practice. I am an avid reader of his daily blog but there are many times I wish that he spent more time on building a …
10 Common Book Publishing Myths and Misconceptions
Don’t let the following 10 book publishing myths and misconceptions undermine your confidence and lead you astray when you think about writing a nonfiction book to build your personal brand and expand your career opportunities and/or business profits.
1. I don’t have time to write a bookWho does have time to write a book? …
Personal Branding Tip: Stop Trying to Control Your Employees and Brand
Are you worried your corporate marketing department and lawyers are going to stop you from creating your personal brand? If you are, this post is for you and for the corporate control freaks fighting a fool’s battle.
The marketing department has lost control of the brandWhen I write and talk about personal branding, quite …
Reader Branding Nightmare: Job Search Sabotage?
Yesterday I had a conversation with a job seeker who was very worried about his former boss.
For the past few years, Jim (not his real name) had worked as a programmer in a small, tight-knit part of the IT industry. After the economic crisis hit and clients started tightening budgets, Jim’s company reacted in …
Learn From Well Branded Student Meagan Burns
I came across Meagan Burns, a Junior at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, when she followed me on Twitter. After checking out her web presence, I was struck how well she’d successfully hit on the fundamentals of personal branding.
She’s also built a seriously awesome online presence. You should take a page out …
The Personal Branding Authority Flowchart
Do you want to stand out from the crowd? Do you want to be seen as a leader in your niche? Do you want to be one of the top earners in your line of work? If you are nodding your head up and down saying yes, this post is for you.
The steps of …
5 Excuses You’re NOT Blogging To Build Your Personal Brand (And How To Get Over Them)
If you’re not yet blogging as a way to build your personal brand, do any of these excuses ring true?
You’re not a very technical personA blog is a website, and those are hard to set up, so the same must be true for blogging, right?
Well, no. There are lots of websites or …
Establishing Your Personal Brand on Niche Social Networks
Have an expertise? There’s a social network for that.
There’s a lot of hype around the “Big 3” – Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. But what about niche social networks?
If you’re an expert in it, there’s a social network for it
From shopping (Kaboodle) to knitting (Ravelry) to movies (Flixster) and everything in between, there’s …