Could You Recover From These Personal Branding Nightmares?
Does your personal brand have what it takes to overcome one of these nightmares?
5 personal branding nightmaresBeing Labeled A One Hit Wonder
People tend to starting using this label about someone who has had only one significant achievement long enough ago that they could have repeated it by now, yet haven’t. If that …
From Function to Feeling in Personal Branding
There can be major emphasis placed on the importance of function when relating to personal branding. “Send me your resume,” the manager will say, “I want to know more about your experience.” Function can be defined as your ability to accomplish a task. This could also be called your “technical” skills.
I wanted to shift …
4 Ways to the Latest in Personal Branding
The fact that you’re on Personal Branding Blog right now means you’re already ahead of the curve differentiating yourself for career success. And all of us contributors are thankful for you taking the time to hear what we have to say – and applying our knowledge to your life to boost your career. The next …
If You Suck, Your Personal Brand Does, Too
Personal branding is not shameless, endless self-promotion. It’s not direct messaging me with your faux request to “take this IQ test and see if you’re smarter than me.” It’s not directing me to your website with every post. It’s not seeing yourself as the epicenter of everything to do with your industry, category, talent, idea, …
A Little Thank You Goes a Long Way
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’ve never hired a candidate who didn’t send a thank you note after our interview. As a hiring manager, it’s just one simple way to compare my top candidates. If I have an open position and two of the candidates are evenly matched skill-wise but only …
Are You Ready for the Personal Branding Cloud?
Last week I shared with you how to sync up your Twitter and Linkedin profiles to help promote your personal brand. This week I will take a look at Linkedin and their announcement to open the Linkedin platform, what this means for your personal brand, and the evolution of the Personal Branding Cloud.
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Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #4
Responses to recent tweets made recently by people about personal branding.
Sherman M. Cheng, @chengm7ny, asked: thinking of building up my personal brand…but what should I start with?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare:
The first part of a personal branding is to understand what its goals should be i.e, once you’ve understood what your personal branding goals …
Secrets to Getting More Referrals – Part 2
Getting referrals and attracting opportunities from people you connect with both in person and online comes down to being highly referable.
Last week I posed some questions to help you assess your referability factor. The first three test whether you’re giving contacts enough information to make the referral:
Can contacts…3 Personal Branding Interviews You Need to Read
Dan Schawbel has over 220 great interviews with some of the top minds in personal branding, business, writing and social media. We have much to learn from these remarkable interviewees.
In case you missed them, here are three of my personal favorites that have takeaways to advance your career and life:
Don Bulmer is the …
Personal Branding to Prevent Career Suicide
Two days ago I read an article on CNNMonday.com about how many people are afraid that taking a “survival job” to make ends meet now will destroy their career when the economy picks up again.
That’s very understandable. When you’re forced into a lower-level job than you were currently doing, or find yourself doing a …