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5 Excuses You’re NOT Blogging To Build Your Personal Brand (And How To Get Over Them)
If you’re not yet blogging as a way to build your personal brand, do any of these excuses ring true?
You’re not a very technical person
A blog is a website, and those are hard to set up, so the same must be true for blogging, right?
Well, no. There are lots of websites or blog [...]
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The Branding Power of Personal Projects
Personal projects are a great way to kick start your personal brand.
Have you ever felt this way?
Ji Lee is a Creative Director at Google Creative Labs. After 4 years in a past job, he felt stifled and frustrated by the lack of progress until he finally realized what his problem was: other people were holding [...]
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On Personal Brand Destruction, Hockey and the 2010 Winter Olympics
How you take rejection can determine whether or not you’ll need to do so again.
A really interesting personal branding-related story took place last week on the road to next month’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and as an avid hockey fan, I’m glad to have finally found a way to sneak my love of hockey [...]
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3 New Year’s Non-Resolutions For The Personal Brand-Building Blogger
It’s such a cliché to blog New Year’s resolutions, and no way at all to stand out. So instead I’ll bring you a list of things that hopefully other people won’t do to you and your personal brand in the coming year and beyond.
Scraping your website and stealing your content
I remember the first time this [...]
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Recognition Breeds Interaction
If you have expertise that can help an entire community, how you approach that community is critical to getting maximum recognition for your personal brand.
Last week, in the post “Participation Breeds Recognition”, I told you about the personal brand I was aiming to build at work, and the first outward-facing brand-building steps my team and [...]
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Employee Participation Breeds Recognition
Successful personal branding tactics that existed before social media are often still useful today. Here are some examples from my own career.
Wherever I’ve worked, the personal brand I’ve tried to build is to be known as someone who is:
Professional
Helpful
Intellectually honest
Successful
Getting things done
Open to Always seeking constructive criticism
In my last job from 2002 to 2006 before [...]
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Could You Recover From These Personal Branding Nightmares?
Does your personal brand have what it takes to overcome one of these nightmares?
5 personal branding nightmares
Being Labeled A One Hit Wonder
People tend to starting using this label about someone who has had only one significant achievement long enough ago that they could have repeated it by now, yet haven’t. If that someone is you [...]
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