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 …
Let Others See Behind The Polished Brand
Last week, I saw the beginning segment of my mom’s favorite guilty pleasure: Dancing with the Stars. For the next 10 weeks, she and much of America will be watching as stars ranging from pop singer Gavin DeGraw to Super Bowl champion Donald Driver, legendary Gladys Knight, and Steve Urkel (ahem, I mean Jaleel White) …
Differentiate Or Die: The New Rules Of Personal Branding
These are the best of times for personal branders; these are the worst of times for personal branders. Far from mere Dickensian wordplay, I believe this statement reflects a reality that old hands in the business will be quick to recognize and happy to give their assent to. Newcomers may soon find out the hard …
Your Brand Is Valuable, Now Is It Profitable?
Personal branding has never been as important as it is today. To achieve success in this world, you really need to manage your reputation well; otherwise, people and companies have worldwide reach to find anyone who “does what you do” or “sells what you sell”.
Though you may be valuable in the company you work …
3 Ways To Become A Thought Leader In The Workplace
Thought leader. You might have heard this phrase – and you’re quite sure what it means. It’s difficult to find an exact definition that is universally accepted, but a thought leader is someone who is known for their innovative ideas, expertise, and is widely recognized as a source of guidance in their industry. Some thought …
5 Keys To Styling Your Personal Brand
The reality TV show explosion runs the gamut now from fashion, food, music, art and dance to business!
What I love about it is that these are real people, real talent literally unknown and making sandwiches in a town of 250,
to being on the national stage with millions of viewers! Talk about viral, overwhelming …
Wake up, Look up and Show up
Selling yourself is tough work. I do not recall any fine arts courses in college that was offering to teach me the art of selling and packaging Me Inc. Selling yourself is especially hard in this era, when clients have attention spans the size of tweets. It is downright brutal when you consider that to …
5 Success Insights Over 5 Years
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It’s been a long-held belief that 50% of businesses fail in the first year and 95% fail within the first five years. However, according to recent statistics published by …
7 Keys to Moving Your Brand
7 Keys to Moving Your Brand Where You Want It To Go!
There is no such thing as an overnight success! Just look at the bio’s or stories of just about any successful small business, entrepreneur, author, journalist or media personality.
They all started somewhere and moved their business and brands in the direction they …
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
If I had one wish that could be fulfilled by every job candidate I see, it’s that he or she would want to earn a million dollars a year, plus bonuses. I’ve asked lots of other business owners and they seem to agree that there’s one quality sorely missing from job seekers. That quality is …