Personal Branding Weekly – 6 May 2013

Quality beats out quantity every time and the quality of this week’s posts were rich with valuable insights and included posts from the Young Entrepreneur Council and Chamber of Commerce.

Here’s what we covered:

Which advice or tip was the most helpful to you last week?

This next week we tackle people who hate the term personal branding; how to use six hats thinking to build your personal brand; the one thing that can make anything successful; the four career decisions that highly successful people make and that’s just a handful of the articles in store for you this week.

What I’m curious to hear is how many of you do have a Jurassic work place. Be sure to read Richard Kirby’s post and weigh in!

With the focus on quality, how’s the quality of your life and time?  Say “no” to something this week – here’s what to say “no” to.

Author:

Maria Elena Duron, is managing editor of the Personal Branding Blog, CEO (chief engagement officer) of buzz2bucks– a word of mouth marketing firm, and a professional speaker and trainer on developing social networks that work. She provides workshops, webinars, seminars and direct services that help create conversation, connection, credibility, community and commerce around your brand.  Maria Duron is founder and moderator of #brandchat – a weekly Twitter chat focused on every aspect of branding that is recognized by Mashable as one the 15 Essential Twitter Chats for Social Media Marketers.

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Maria Elena Duron

Maria Elena Duron, is managing editor of the Personal Branding Blog, CEO (chief engagement officer) of buzz2bucks– a word of mouth marketing firm, and a professional speaker and trainer on developing social networks that work. She provides workshops, webinars, seminars and direct services that help create conversation, connection, credibility, community and commerce around your brand.  Maria Duron is founder and moderator of #brandchat- a weekly Twitter chat focused on every aspect of branding that is recognized by Mashable as one the 15 Essential Twitter Chats for Social Media Marketers.

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