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Using Chapter Titles to Build Your Personal Brand

Chapter titles can become powerful tools for selling more copies of your book and building your personal brand. Each chapter title should tell not only what’s in each chapter, but stress how readers will benefit from the chapter contents. Chapter titles from Writing that Works, which has sold over 110,000 copies, are used as examples.

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 [...]

Managing the Modern Employee’s Personal Brand

The rise of personal branding has thrown a giant wrench in the norms of how to manage the workforce. Many companies have been caught flat footed and are jumping to the wrong conclusions when it comes to managing the modern employee. Do not let this happen to you or your company.
Here are some questions to [...]

How Guest Posting Builds Your Brand

I’ve been building my personal brand for two years. I’ve tried various methods including social media networking, blogging and regular commenting (my resolution was to comment daily on all popular niche blogs!). While all the three tactics are highly effective (when done properly and thoroughly), per my experience there is nothing as effective for self-branding [...]

How Exposing Yourself Can Save Your Personal Brand

I recently attended an Internet conference here in Israel that included a session about online reputation management. One of the speakers in that session, my friend Shira Abel, discussed how to react in a branding crisis. Her advice was intended for companies, but as you’ll see, her main points are just [...]

Dealing with Dueling Personal Brands

Most people don’t know I have a full-time job in public relations, outside of all the career-related activities in which I’m involved. I went to school for public relations. All the jobs on my résumé are in public relations. Yet, I’m probably much better known in the career space.
Why is this and is it what [...]

Personal Branding Interview: Rahaf Harfoush

Today, I spoke to Rahaf Harfoush, who is a social media strategist, author of Yes We Did, research coordinator for Wikinomics and a contributor on Grown Up Digital. She supported the Obama campaign with regards to social media. In this interview, Rahaf talks about the common mistakes businesses make when it comes to branding and [...]

Business is Always About Connection. Period.

I ran across this quote the other day from Mzinga CEO Barry Libert:
“GM never thought of themselves of being in the business of connecting people, which is why they’re going bankrupt,”
Pretty valid thought if you ask me. Should all businesses be involved in connecting people with each other? Better yet… should businesses search for that [...]

You Can’t Get Anywhere Unless You Start

On the Web recently, I ran across the reminiscence of a senior citizen about his first job as a shelf stocker at a supermarket. “They told me I would get two weeks paid vacation,” he recalls. “I couldn’t wait to find out where they were going to send me. I wasn’t the brightest crayon in [...]

Controlling Your Google Results: The Art and Science of the Personal Press Release

Problem: Googling your name doesn’t accurately reflect who you are or what you do.
Solution: Issue a personal press release about a recent accomplishment or noteworthy event to fill Google results for your name with relevant, on-brand content.
1. Choose a topic
First, decide on a newsworthy event or accomplishment you will announce, such as:

Launching a new website
Receiving an award, [...]

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