personal brand

Personal Branding Magazine – Issue 9

There’s a magazine I’ve been contributing to for almost three years, and if you’re looking for a great resource on personal branding and career growth, I highly recommend it!
Summary: Volume 3, Issue 3 is about becoming so important to your company, your customers and the people around you, that they can’t live [...]


Little Details – Signatures

Sometimes it’s the simple things that we overlook the most. For Personal Branding, this is occasionally the email signature. If you look over the most frequent and pervasive communications tools we have, email is still a top contender for the vast majority of folks.
With that in mind, anyone who has built a specific brand [...]


Walk Your Walk

If there’s one thing you should always do, it’s to keep your unique individuality.
As an individual we need to recognize how and what we do differently.  Protect and nurture those qualities that make us who we are.  It’s important to realize that these qualities are what others see in us, and differentiate us in [...]


Afraid of being cataloged online? You’ve just lost.

Sorry, but that’s the truth.  If you’re afraid of sharing your opinion and letting the online world catalog and categorize you, then you’ve already lost the edge.  The realities of future (read: today) is that you need to be an active part of your industry or genre, or you lose out.  Want that corner office? [...]


Change And The Generational Gap

We had an interesting discussion around the lunch table the other day regarding many aspects of the current economy.  From the mounting job purges of too many large companies and what it all means to us the average person.
Really the discussion came around to how the traditional exercise of searching for a job is [...]


Personal Branding Magazine Issue 7 | Discover Your Brand

Yep, it’s time for the next issue of the magazine that can change your career: Personal Branding Magazine.  I’m quite proud of the work that I’ve contributed to the magazine, and want to send a personal thank-you to publisher Dan Schawbel for putting together a great magazine in every issue. So please check out the [...]


2009 – Goals & Plans

So it’s the end of another year. As such, I wanted to take a minute and put my plans & goals for 2008 out there.  I’ve not done this one before, but thought I give it a go this year.  Much has changed and I have some directions that I want to follow in [...]


Personal Branding Magazine – Volume 2 Issue 2

Personal Branding Gold Rush – That’s the theme of the upcoming issue of Personal Branding Magazine to be released on November 1st, 2008.
From publisher Dan Schawbel:
Volume 2, Issue 2 is a call to action. Now is the time for building your personal eBrand. Laggards will be lost in a Google cloud of dust, while [...]


Personal Branding in a Down Economy

How have you positioned yourself? Have you been building your brand? How are you prepared to take advantage of opportunities in a down economy?
While you listen to the gloom and doom of the mainstream media, naysayers, and general pessimists, remember that only you have control of your career. Just like leaving your financial future in [...]


Launching your brand, 3-2-1… ignition

New to personal branding? No you’re not!
You’re well aware of your reputation, and probably work hard to make sure it’s what you want it to be: a reflection of you and the work you do. Of course by now you’re aware that in this wonderful social media-web 2.0 world, that you are your own [...]


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