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    5 Intangibles Brand You as a Premium

    Are you searching for your next job, or are you seriously preparing for the next part of your career path?

    There’s some very good news this year for finding a job.  “eEmployers expect to hire 13 percent more new college graduates from the Class of 2013 than they did from the Class of 2012”, according …

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    7 Spam Things Get You Blocked, Unfollowed or Disconnected

    I’m on a rant and a mission. I know, its public domain and there are no real rules in place, or people enforcing them, except ourselves, BUT,  there is an unspoken etiquette and there has to be an understood protocol and way we respect each others online and web worlds.

    Yes, we have settings and …

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    Social Media Etiquette Should Define Not Defame Your Brand

    What are your social media etiquette rules?

    Do you have them for your community and the media’s you engage with them on?

    The 2012 Presidential election really opened my eyes to how important it is to create rules and content boundaries and how to use settings to control and enforce them. It was during those …

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    Posted in Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media, Success Strategies

    5 Things You Control In How Google Brands You

    Amazingly, all of what Google publishes and how it brands is about how WE choose to serve, act and react. Transparency today gives us no-where to hide.

    If you do it, say it or post it, you will be found and outed. Just Google people or companies and you will see many examples of this. …

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    Posted in Networking, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media

    11 Qualities That Build Personal Magnetism

    Lack of charisma can be fatal. Jenny Holzer

    I couldn’t agree more.

    With all the talking about, writing about and discussion about personal branding, this personal magnetism or charisma is already inside of you and part of the DNA personality you were born with.

    In Developmental Psychologist Jan Mercer’s article in Psychology Today: Temperament and …

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    Posted in Me 2.0, Personal Branding

    25 Ways to Brand Yourself and Find New Prospects

    We are all really in sales, no matter what we do, but our approach has had to change from traditional models.

    Selling has always been about communication and education. 21st century salesmanship leads with building the trust of  “who is selling”  rather than what they are selling.

    The consumer wants to know that who is …

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    Posted in Marketing, Networking, Personal Branding

    6 Fundamentals Helped Me Celebrate 6 Years

    After 20+ years in corporate America, I voluntarily left in  2006 and actualized a dream I had been thinking about for many years in early 2007. On February 6 2007, I launched my own business education consultancy, training  and content management company, originally called Train With Shane, that 2 years ago became DeborahShane.com.

    I celebrate …

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    Posted in entrepreneurship, Personal Branding, Success Strategies

    Network With The Right People And They Will Lead You

    I have been talking and writing about my recent relocation to the Tampa Bay/Dunedin Florida area to be closer to my family.

    I seem to be on the move more over the past 6 years but that is just where my life cycle is now. The good news is I knew people and was familiar …

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    Posted in entrepreneurship, Networking, Personal Branding

    Common Sense Keys For Creating Your Career Success Story

    The story of our careers, work and jobs continues to be written and told by all of us living it.

    2008-2010 were tumultuous, paradigm shift years that most of us had never known, seen or experienced in our lifetime. We were all forced to deal with change on just about every level of our personal …

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    5 Ways To Anticipate and Benefit From Change

    “Haw now realized that the change probably would have not taken him by surprise, if he had been watching what was happening all along, and if he had anticipated change”.

    I just finished my annual visit with Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese. I find this simple allegory and story so timeless, relevant and helpful …

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