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Personal Branding Extortion: Your Money or Your Reputation

Has a copyright issue lead to threats of extortion? You be the judge. Background Over on JobMob back in March 2010, I published 20 Funniest Job Search and Work FAIL Pictures, a collection that was gathered from around the web. One of the images initially included in that article was from a photographer’s Flickr stream. [...]

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Job Hunters: Consider Branding Yourself as a ‘Purple Squirrel’

Do you have the “Sunday night blues”? You know, that growing sense of unease, that creeping feeling of dread, at the prospect of having to return on Monday morning to begin yet another week in a job you’ve come to loathe. Or, maybe, your feeling of dread is fueled by the fact that you’re still [...]

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The Existential Laws of Leadership

Soren Kierkegaard’s “Attack Upon Christendom” is not an attack on his beloved Christianity per se, but rather an indictment of how the Church of Denmark had diluted and trivialized what it meant to be a Christian. According to Kierkegaard, the State’s approach to institutional worship had commoditized faith and done damage to what he felt [...]

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How to Say “No” Without Damaging Your Brand

Everyone who wants a strong brand must learn how to say “no” without damaging their brand. Branding success for both businesses and individuals involves more than just attracting and building a loyal following; it also requires retaining your followers’ loyalty…even when you have to say “no.” You can’t turn your brand “on” or “off” like [...]

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How To Increase Your Visibility & Networking Quietly

You’re not ready to go public with your job search, but you want to cultivate higher visibility in your industry and grow your connections to key decision-makers. Before you go pasting on nametags three times a week, take a couple of lesson in stealth networking. Then consider how your career moves will look to your [...]

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Make Your Personal Brand Visible with Newsle

A crucial element for maintaining a personal brand is having credibility. Building credibility by sharing relevant content and managing your online reputation is a no-brainer. In fact, while you could be an exceptional expert in your field online, what good is it to your personal brand if your efforts aren’t visible to your network? Newsle is a [...]

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15 Questions To Test Your Hostility Level

Answer these questions (honestly – no one will know but you): 1.  An office mate eats a sandwich with a whole lot of onions a. I consider his odor might increase my chances for a promotion b. I consider telling him he’s stinking up the place 2.  My IT consultant leaves after fixing my computer [...]

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Does Your Brand Rational-Lies?

[Sponsored Post: If you’re serious about your personal brand then you need your own website.  That starts with a great domain name.  Get yours at Domain.com.] I’m hearing more stories about people being underemployed.  And though underemployment is not “ideal’ for someone who just obtained their Bachelors or Masters degree- being employed is better than [...]

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Video Games: Building a Brand Outside of the Basement

Today’s post is written by T.K. Brown. An industry once associated with introverts and basement dwellers has finally ascended from the underground and into the light of mainstream media.   For outsiders, this may have come as a surprise, but for those who are close to the industry, the transition was inevitable.  Gone are the days [...]

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Intelligent Laziness: Choosing Quality over Quantity

This is the final part of my series on Why Your Personal Brand Needs a Mindset Shift. You can read the other posts in this series here: Part One: Your Personal Brand Needs a Mindset Shift Part Two: Normal is Not Enough and Part Three: Answer the Why! ********************** I hear from job seekers on [...]

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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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