Personal Brand

Personal Branding Magazine - August 2008 Issue

I’d like to bring your attention to the upcoming August 2008 issue of Personal Branding Magazine. Starting it’s second year of publication, PBM is kicking off Volume 2 with a bang. This months focus is on Millennials, and how they’re changing the way we do business.
For those who have not yet subscribed, PBM is [...]


Why You Should Build Your Audience

An interesting component of your online brand is most certainly audience. Without it, there is little point in doing much of anything online other than email, research, and storing information. Audience is what makes the web 2.0 world turn, as we’re all dependent upon the interactivity that audience brings.
Without people to follow, read, and [...]


Blogging - New Phase, New Theme

Wow, what a wild ride the last few months have been.  I’ve been planning to refine the direction of my blog and revamp the appearance for some time and it’s finally completed!
Well, it’s almost completed - I’ve got a replacement for the About page almost ready to publish, and I’ve got one last page [...]


Your Image & Your Personal Brand

Chris Garrett had a great post about Gravatars last week that got me thinking.  While we talk about branding, one of the easiest way to remind people of you is your image.  For consumer products, it’d be called a logo.  For those of us that are marketing ourselves, our image really is our logo [...]


Do we realize how fortunate we are?

We live in age when anything is possible, at the touch of a button, or simply for the asking. The modern world is filled with tools and technologies that allow us to do amazing things. From communicating around the world in the blink of an eye, to reporting breaking news by the average person, [...]


Who Owns Your Name?

Do you, or does someone else? There is some growing interest in the Personal Branding space on scenarios of people with the same name. I was fortunate enough to have a great conversation on the topic with Kristen King of BizChicksRule which she turned into What if Your Name Is Jenna Jameson? Personal Branding [...]


Personal Branding Magazine - Volume 1 Issue 4

Get ready for the forth issue of the inaugural volume of Personal Branding Magazine coming on May 1st!
I want to congratulate Dan Schawbel, publisher of Personal Branding Magazine, on completing the first full volume of the magazine.  I’ve been honored to write a column for each issue, and hope to continue bringing perspectives and adding [...]


Define your personal brand

Here’s a question that many people don’t often think about as they begin developing their personal brand.
What is your personal brand?
I wonder how many people have actually sat down and defined what their strengths and skills are before diving in. Realizing that you’re as marketable as your favorite soda, not to mention more [...]


Personal Branding Magazine - Issue 3

Good day everyone! I’d like to point everyone to the third issue of Personal Branding Magazine. This third issue is packed with great information on personal branding from all aspects.
With great interviews with Om Malik, Matt Mullenweg, Gina Bianchini, Mark Frauenfelder, Gina Trapani, and David Weekly - publisher Dan Schawbel connects you [...]


Learning to listen

I’ll tell you one of the most important & introspective lessons I’m learning: it’s listening to what people say.  It’s a critical one that many of us find ourselves in the middle of when working on our personal improvement strategies.
While I’ve only really become aware of my own efforts to improve my listening abilities, [...]