Personal Brands Fail When They Don’t Know Their Company
I’ll say it again: Recognition is not the same as appreciation. It really isn’t.
The focus in past years with employee recognition is on rewarding good performance. This could be in the form of verbal praise or tangible reward, and its purpose is to spur the employee’s actions to continue working at that high level. …
Increase Inner Strength to Achieve Outward Appeal
The problem most entrepreneurs have is they focus on their weaknesses instead of their strength. Through the years mental files have been collected focusing on shortcomings. It is this very file that holds one back.
The challenge is hereby on for you to turn Negative Comments into Gold!
Create a one-of-a-kind folder that documents all …
3 Ways Guest Blogging Can Boost Your Personal Brand
Your personal brand relies on many factors, but digital presence is probably the biggest.
But sometimes, you can be so busy running a business that you simply don’t have time to handle the traditional aspects of personal branding (speaking engagements, for example).
Content marketing is quickly becoming one of the biggest digital branding outlets, and …
Three Ridiculously Easy Tips to Defeat Perfectionism
If you are like most of us, you are doing more with less. Most businesses take pride in the ever increasing productivity of workers. Bosses often pile on too much work to too few people. Solo-entrepreneurs over-commit themselves. And, pretty much everyone is sleep-deprived, caffeine and sugar-high, or otherwise brain drained by the habits we …
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Physical touch is a communication tool few people take advantage of. It can help you bond and connect with people, not just communicate by dispensing data. Yes, you can touch strangers as well as colleagues at a business event if you do it with the right attitude and technique. Here are some tips on effective …
Personal Branding Weekly – Do You Sound Lame?
If you’re using the words “sorry” and “thanks”, then you run the high risk of sounding lame. These two words are thrown around so haphazardly and without any genuine feeling that they rank as having negative effects on your personal brand much like “umms”, “you knows” and “stuff like that”.
Are you guilty of using…Personal Brand Promotion on Facebook
Facebook is a great platform to promote your personal brand. As a platform that was generally built as a place to interact with friends and make new ones, it is great ground to display your personal brand. Over the years, changes to Facebook have made it possible to increase your reach through advertising and marketing …
Build Relationships to Earn Sales
Would you rather purchase from a serious, black-and-white-type salesperson, or one who is easy to talk with and who might also become a good friend?
While that might sound like a dumb question, too many business and salespeople are afraid to go out of narrowly defined boundaries. They ignore references to personal events such as …
Personal Branding Weekly –Firm, Fair and Consistent
Special favors are always tough. They either erode your personal brand or put a finer point to it.
At the age of 21 years old, I became a manager leading a team of 50+ people with four mid-level managers who reported directly to me. I was gifted some sage advice from a senior manager who …
Tips for Writing a Succinct Brand Bio
I have to provide a bio for a guest post and I’m stuck. What types of accomplishments or positions are worth mentioning in a limited amount of space (and what should I drop)?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. …