Brand Yourself To Highlight The Best
As a personal brand today, your online reputation is very important. Hiring managers, recruiters, business owners, clients, and the like, probably Google your name to see what comes up before they even consider hiring you.
This is why it’s essential for you to control your search engine results. You want to highlight the best things …
What’s Your Swag?
The word of the year so far is SWAG..
Straight from the Urban dictionary and one of the hottest cultural terms of the moment! By definition “It’s about appearance, style or the way he or she presents themselves”.
Swag can be applied to everythingIt’s being applied to just about anything, including dental swag, which …
Transforming Old Papers And Business Cards Into Brand Treasure
Here’s a nice little Spring Cleaning tip for you that could be a nice win-win. This nice win-win would be that it de-clutterizes your office, and helps share your interests with your online community – in turn building your brand.
We all come across handy articles that we’d like to hold onto and refer back …
Have You Gone Overboard With Your Website?
With so many opportunities to get digitally creative these days, it is easy to see how one could go overboard on their personal or company website. Due to this excess of options, one may ask – how much is too much? While perhaps a better question is – where do I focus?
Knowing that most …
Your Brand, Multiplexing And The Hedgehog Effect
As a personal brand, it’s very important that you form strong connections and build close relationships with people. There are many ways you can do this, even without having to meet people face to face. Social Media is a great catalyst for people to easily connect with others in the virtual world. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ …
5 Ways to Find the Time for Personal Branding
You’re busy, I get it. You’ve got your job or school. You have a social life. You just don’t have a whole lot of time to do any of it to a great extent. You’re keeping up with Twitter and LinkedIn, and even Facebook, but you’re not able to do any real brand building. That …
Thoughtful Leadership Benefits Society
When we think of traditional leaders, we envision a confident, courageous and dogmatic type of individual. Everything they do seems to work well, so they advocate everyone mirroring their activities and they boast of their achievements.
Modern day leaders do not behave in that way. Particularly with the usage of social media, it’s very easy …
Standing Out with Polyvore
Have you heard about Polyvore? It’s a social networking site where people can look for brands and products and create their own collections called sets. Once you’ve created a set, you can share it with your friends and the whole Polyvore community. People can comment on your set, and you can also comment on other …
The New Science Of Social Media
Since social media became an integral part of our personal and professional lives, we have witnessed a gradual shift from a more or less spontaneous and intuitive use towards a decidedly more clinical and rational approach. This process had been anticipated by analysts and experts and was after all to be expected given the upsurge …
Metrics For Tracking Your Heroes (And Joining Their Company)
Hey, we all have heroes. Some of mine include a guy who wore #23 for the Chicago Bulls and my Dad. But we also have a lot of people we look up to in the social media realm – people who influence us and whose company we’d like to be included in (yes, no matter …