How to Target Recruiters Scanning Online Professional Profiles
Anyone who’s ever crafted newspaper headlines for most of an eight hour shift realizes a lot of mediocre verbiage precedes the stronger, eye-catching ones. The first ideas are rarely the best ones.
This holds true on professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn, where individuals write their own headline showcasing their career and their talents. Writers, …
Network and Link Up, Link In and Link Out!
Networking is about meeting people you have commonality, synergy, potential and chemistry with. Linking is what comes next. You meet and link and connect one part, thing or person with another, and make a personal branding bond or tie.
According to the English Club, linking is very important in the English language. If you recognize …
3 Personal Branding Surprises Thanks to Sandy
During the week of Superstorm Sandy, it was easy to tell whose Twitter feed had been stocked with scheduled tweets. Automated messages about free giveaways or maximizing SEO seemed so out of place in a stream of updates about lost power and dangerous water surges.
Obviously not everyone I follow on Twitter was affected by …
Personal Branding Weekly and Clarity in Social Communication
Editor’s Note: Have you ever experienced a low-ball salary offer and wondered what’s the best thing to do to come back from that? Author Skip Freeman, share some helpful tips to do that.
This week we covered that and what makes you valuable; the importance and power of Google AuthorRank (if you …
Personal Branding Weekly and Facebook Marketing You
Personal Branding Weekly
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m catching up this week as much as you are on the great insights of our authors. I spent the week in intense training and networking at #PubCon. I had hoped to have a great post to you about all of it this week and found (which often happens at …
Writers, Don’t Give Up On Social Media
Writer Randy Ross recently wondered on his blog whether social media was turning out to be a waste of time for promoting his writing. He wrote in a blog post that Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn “seem to be over-saturated with users generating useless crap.”
Randy has seen both his web traffic and Facebook Reach …
Eight Tips for Trade Show Success
Almost everyone has been to some kind of event or trade show. Whether it’s a college recruiting day, a job fair or an industry trade show. Almost everyone has been to something like this. However, some people don’t seem to maximize their time and effort at them.
One thing that regularly surprises me is the …
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 …