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Personal Branding Interview: Nick Palazzo

Today, I spoke to Nick Palazzo, who is the co-founder of STACK, a multimedia sports brand that educates, inspires and entertains athletes. STACK recently launched a new social networking site for high-school athletes, the Gatorade Performance Center. In this interview, Nick talks about his new social network, brand partnerships, and more. Why a social networking [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Nick Friedman

Today, I spoke to Nick Friedman, who is the President and Co-Founder of COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK, the largest and fastest growing US-Based Junk Removal Franchise Opportunity. He recently co-authored his first book called Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions. In this interview, Nick talks about his new book, what it means to [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Harry Beckwith

Today, I spoke to Harry Beckwith, one of the world’s most respected marketers, has advised 23 Fortune 200 companies, including Target, ABC and Wells Fargo. Harry first book, Selling the Invisible, was named one of the top ten business and management books of all time. In this interview, Harry talks about personal branding from a [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Jim Kukral

Today, I spoke to Jim Kukral, who is a web marketer & business web coach, speaker, long-time award-winning blogger, customer evangelist, writer, online monetization expert, and author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue (Wiley). I contributed personal branding advice to Jim’s new book. [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Greg Verdino

Today, I spoke to Greg Verdino, who is vice president of strategy and solutions at Powered, and the author of MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small (McGraw Hill). In this interview, Greg talks about his new book, macro versus micro marketing, weighs in on the quality versus quantity debate in social media, [...]

Tip: Empower Someone Else to Build Your Personal Brand

Before my book came out, I was managing my own public relations department (Me Inc.). I would read articles by journalists that covered marketing, careers, and technology, and respond to them. I would also pitch the media on relevant topics around personal branding and constantly network. Looking back at my efforts, I must have appeared [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Jim Petrus

Today, I spoke to Jim Petrus, who is the chief operating officer for Trump International Hotels Management LLC, the operating arm of Trump® Hotel Collection. Recently, Jim and his team have created the Trump Hotel Collection’s social media presence, including Twitter and Facebook accounts. In this interview, Jim explains why and how they are using [...]

Brand Shift: Goldman’s Golden Gun

In May I wrote about branding lessons learned from Goldman Sachs. This company has an illusive communications strategy that is not working very well in 2010 as the ever-evolving “new consumer” is changing the way that companies interact with the public. After a very public legal dispute with the S.E.C. that has taken its toll [...]

The Entrepreneur Cover Letter

For many job seekers, the cover letter is an opportunity to sell themselves and differentiate themselves from the rest of the competition. For entrepreneurs, the cover letter is a way to really sell their story and remove any doubt to the potential employer about an entrepreneur’s commitment to someone else’s business. I will attempt to [...]

A Lesson in Personal Branding from Apple

To many, Apple is more than just a company – it’s an institution. I’m not a 100% Apple product consumer, but I’ve sipped some of the Kool-Aid. I’ve always admired the company for it’s innovative thinking, and finally took some time to think about some of the elements of the company that make it so [...]

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    Dan Schawbel, the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding LLC, is a world renowned personal branding expert. He is the international bestselling author of Me 2.0, and the publisher of the Personal Branding Blog.

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