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Personal Branding Interview: Julie Jansen

Today, I spoke to Julie Jansen, who is a speaker, author, facilitator, trainer, coach, and business consultant to Fortune 500, privately held companies and nonprofits. Her books include I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This (2nd edition), and You Want Me To Work With Who?, [...]

I Would Rather Shoot at Fish in a Barrel

This is not a new idea but I think it needs reinforcement in the world of personal branding. The idea is the concept of location based social networking and small being the new BIG.
Chris Brogan has a post that further enforces my idea that SMALL is the new BIG in Social Media. His post entitled Do [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Paula Caligiuri

Today, I spoke to Paula Caligiuri, whois the author of Get a Job, Not a Life: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You, and a Professor in the Human Resource Management Department at Rutgers University where she has directed the Center for HR Strategy since 2001. In this [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Ivanka Trump

Today, I spoke to Ivanka Trump, who is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the The Trump Organization. She is also The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Nikki Stone

Today, I spoke to Nikki Stone, who became America’s first-ever Olympic champion in the sport of aerial skiing at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. She just released her latest book called When Turtles Fly. In this interview, Nikki talks about her background, how to gain confidence, her inspirations, how to [...]

4 Rules of Personal Brand Relationships

If your personal brand is the tip of a glacier above water, then a strong network is the large bottom part of the glacier underneath the water. What I mean is that one of the main purposes of building a well-known personal brand is to be able to connect with people around you who have [...]

Acing The Interview

No single job hunting skill outranks knowing how to interview successfully. When pilots fly, they step through a rigorous preparation checklist before each take off. Apply the same procedure in landing a job. The choice between a job interview being a picture-perfect three-point touch-down and a gruesome crash-and-burn is totally up to you.
Use Your Head [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Heather Cabot

Today, I spoke to Heather Cabot, who is the Founder & Publisher of The Well Mom, and the Web Life Editor for Yahoo!. In this interview, Heather explains how she came up with her brand, how she transitioned from a job at ABC News to being a mom, the communication skills that she gained [...]

It’s the Little Things, Stupid

I shot a video recently where my first boss said I was “a bit of a mess” out of college. Some people have asked if I was offended by that statement and the answer is absolutely not. For starters, it’s the truth, but – more importantly – if I hadn’t been such a disaster when [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Larry Myler

Today, I spoke to Larry Myler, who is an author, business strategist, and consultant for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. For much of his career he has energized companies with new, concrete methods for reducing expenses and increasing revenues.  His latest book is called Indispensable By Monday. In [...]

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