I should be writing about my recent trip to Cancun, and my safe return without the swine flu. But instead, I’m writing about this stupid person who hacked my Twitter account and started following hundreds of spammers who started sending me hundreds of direct messages with hundreds of stupid links that I’m afraid to click. … Read the Rest →
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How to Deal With Your Hacked Twitter Account
Tagged with: Monica O'Brien, personal brand, twitter
Posted in eBrand, Personal Branding, PR, Reputation Management, Social Media
Posted in eBrand, Personal Branding, PR, Reputation Management, Social Media
3 Search Engines You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Move over Google – the future of searching is no longer just about you! Check out these 3 new search engines below, then consider how to manage your personal brand on them in the comments section.
OneRiotOneRiot looks at what’s happening on Twitter and Digg in realtime results. They write, “Increasingly, the web’s most … Read the Rest →
Tagged with: Monica O'Brien, personal brand, Personal Branding
Posted in eBrand, People, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, SEO
Posted in eBrand, People, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, SEO
Two Questions About Personal Branding Issues
Here are two posts that caught my eye this week. Neither was about personal branding, but both raised questions about personal branding that are worth discussing. What do you think?
If you want to be successful, be worth sharing by Jamie VaronDo we damage our personal brands by overdoing the self-promotion? Jamie Varon writes, … Read the Rest →
Tagged with: gen-y, Monica O'Brien, personal brand, Personal Branding
Posted in Brand Yourself As, Career Development, gen-y, Personal Branding, Positioning, Reputation Management
Posted in Brand Yourself As, Career Development, gen-y, Personal Branding, Positioning, Reputation Management
How To Transition or Expand Your Brand to Two Topics
I have a dilemma. I have a blog about Gen Y topics with nearly 1000 subscribers. I started a new blog about marketing and consumer insights this week, and I am worried about transitioning my personal brand. My second blog is far more important than my first one because it’s the platform for my company, … Read the Rest →
A Simple Networking Meeting Checklist
As a consultant, I am constantly going on informational/networking meetings to convince clients to hire me. Through these experiences, I’ve learned a lot about how to conduct a networking meeting.
Here are six tips I have for managing networking meetings:
Be persistentIt’s not easy, but I get meetings with many CEOs and other executives … Read the Rest →
Tagged with: Brand Attributes, Monica O'Brien, Networking, relationships
Posted in Career Development, entrepreneurship, Job Search, Networking, Personal Branding, Success Strategies
Posted in Career Development, entrepreneurship, Job Search, Networking, Personal Branding, Success Strategies
More on Measuring Your Personal Brand
This is a follow-up post to my post last week: How to Measure Your Personal Brand. Here are some comments from you guys, and what I think about these three topics at the end.
On the meaning of numbers to measure a brand“I DO think that you can measure your personal brand from stats … Read the Rest →
Tagged with: authenticity, Brand Attributes, Monica O'Brien, personal brand, Personal Branding
Posted in Marketing, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media
Posted in Marketing, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media
How to Measure Your Personal Brand
Today I was going to write a post about different ways to measure your personal brand. Then I realized, there is only one way that we all measure our own personal brands: through how we stack up to competitors.
Don’t believe me? See for yourself.How do you measure your personal brand on twitter? Through … Read the Rest →
Tagged with: Blogging, Monica O'Brien, personal brand, Personal Branding, twitter
Posted in Brand Yourself As, People, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, SEO, Social Media
Posted in Brand Yourself As, People, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, SEO, Social Media
How to be Popular on Social Media
Have you ever read the book How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot? (Probably not, because it’s a young adult novel written for 12-14 year-old girls, who probably don’t read this blog.) I read it this weekend as research for another project I’m working on, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the book.… Read the Rest →
Tagged with: Brand Attributes, Monica O'Brien, Networking, personal brand, Personal Branding, twitter
Posted in Book Reviews, Marketing, Networking, People, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media, Success Strategies
Posted in Book Reviews, Marketing, Networking, People, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media, Success Strategies
An Audacious Way to Build an Online Brand
Last week, Jamie Varon (@jamievaron) made waves in the Twitter and Gen Y communities with a career advice post about her last job and a new website to get Twitter to hire her. I caught up with her to talk about what she’s doing to build her online personal brand – and ask how she … Read the Rest →
Five Tips for Creating Video Posts
Now that my blog has gained some traction, I’ve been thinking about how to introduce video blogging to my audience to stretch myself and my blog. After getting advice from many people on how to get started, here are five tips I’ve heard:
Tune in to what others are doingGood bloggers read a lot … Read the Rest →
Tagged with: Blogging, Monica O'Brien, personal brand, vlog, vlogging
Posted in Brand Yourself As, Career Development, Futures, Interview, Networking, Personal Branding, Social Media, Success Strategies
Posted in Brand Yourself As, Career Development, Futures, Interview, Networking, Personal Branding, Social Media, Success Strategies
