Does Facebook Subscribe Help or Hurt Your C-Level Branding?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start …
How To Avoid Twitter Spam
Yes, Twitter has a spam problem. But you can do something about it.
In Why I Joined App.net, I explained that a main reason was Twitter spam, which is any unsolicited contact whether by direct message, through your tweet stream, or mentions.
Let’s see what you can do today to ward off these unfortunately well-known …
6 Ways to Freshen Up Your Online Profile for Fall
Change is good. And changing things up on your online profile can attract attention, whether it’s a recruiter or an angel investor or some new followers.
This fall brings many good reasons for freshening up our online images: Stepped up networking events, new or renewed emphasis on career goals and of course, the expectation that …
Personal Branding Accelerates Professional Advancement
Smart, strategic personal branding can accelerate professional advancement. There is no getting around it, ignoring its importance, or doing it half heartedly.
What a smart, strategic personal branding plan and blueprint can do is frame what you stand for and how to stand out, get noticed and become credible in your field or community. How …
Five Personal Branding Tips for Musicians
Some of the best and worst personal branding practitioners I know are musicians. The good ones promote the bejeezus out of themselves everywhere and anywhere they can. The bad ones book a gig, post something to Facebook (maybe), send a few posters to the venue, and leave it at that.
Here are five personal branding …
Be Authentic – To a Point
The other day, I was at an event where the speaker was advising attendees about the power of authenticity. During the Q&A, one of the audience members raised her hand and asked about how much authenticity the speaker advised. As the audience member explained, she was just beginning a career as a freelance copywriter, but …
Use Your Micro Brand for Extra Perks
Do you have a micro brand? Do you know what a micro brand is?
Your micro brand is that thing you do on the side, but are still known for. If your primary personal brand is what people understand you do and stand for, your micro brand is that sideline or hobby that you enjoy …
Personal Branding Weekly – Personal Word of Mouth Remains Powerful
Editor’s Note: Exploring age discrimination, taking it easy, to even the successful habits for personal branders to be effective and not look like an egoist were just some of our focus area this week.
Here’s what you might have missed:
Resume Botox: 9 Ways Your Resume can Avoid Ageism by Phil Rosenberg The YEC Retooling…3 Reasons Why Your Personal Brand Strategy Requires Video
Remember when you first created a website? You needed to include a newsletter sign-up, then decided to add social elements like Facebook and Twitter…but later Pinterest and Google+ came along. It seems like there is always something NEW to explore.
So as the summer ends and you get back into work mode, it’s time to …
Friendship: The True Engine behind Social Media
Aristotle spoke about it as a moral good worth pursuing in itself in his Nicomachean Ethics; Cicero dedicated a whole book to it (De Amicitia); Plotinus deemed fit to extend it even to his slaves, whom he emancipated; Ralph Waldo Emerson declared it ‘the masterpiece of Nature’; and ever since every sane thinker has advocated …