There are several sources of risk for your personal brand in the social era. With each new wave of technology and with the frequency of changes to industry verticals, there is always a risk that you fall behind. With so many avenues of communication, you run the risk of personal brand neglect. With a competitive …
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Minimizing Brand Risk
Tagged with: Hard Skills, management, Personal Branding, Starting Up
Posted in entrepreneurship, Personal Branding, Skill Development, Workplace Success
Posted in entrepreneurship, Personal Branding, Skill Development, Workplace Success
Exploiting A Niche To Master Your Brand
Increase Productivity by Automating & Recycling for Twitter
Many of us are extremely busy and we are always looking for ways to be more productive. Social media is one area that tends to have a time vacuum effect to us. One way to increase your productivity for social media is to recycle content and automate your Twitter feeds.
Tagged with: Growing Your Business, Personal Branding, Social Media Skills
Posted in entrepreneurship, Skill Development
Posted in entrepreneurship, Skill Development
Building Your Brand in 3 Easy Steps
1. Discover
To build your brand you must first explore your current skills, values, and knowledge. Whether you have worked to build your brand in the past or not, you have a brand already, we all do. Explore your current brand to determine whether it aligns with where you would like to move or cultivate …
Tagged with: Face to Face, Personal Branding, Social Media Skills, Starting Up
Posted in entrepreneurship, Networking, Skill Development
Posted in entrepreneurship, Networking, Skill Development
Starting Your New Year Right
Everyone is about to make their New Year’s Resolutions. They’ll want to lose weight, eat right, be happier. Most of them will fail but you WILL NOT. Accept this as a fact right now and then continue reading… I’ll wait…
You’ve accepted as a fact that you will set New Year’s Resolutions and will be …
Tagged with: goal setting, Growing Your Business, Personal Branding, Productivity Skills
Posted in entrepreneurship, Skill Development
Posted in entrepreneurship, Skill Development
You Are Not a Failure; You Experienced Failure
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates
In order to achieve success, you’ll likely need to fail first. Failure is the path that many of the most successful people have taken prior to their great achievements. Take Bill Gates, prior to founding Microsoft, …
Tagged with: Getting Ahead, Growing Your Business, Personal Branding, Starting Up
Posted in entrepreneurship, Reputation Management, Workplace Success
Posted in entrepreneurship, Reputation Management, Workplace Success
Working with a Conscience
A friend of mine recently took on a position at a company that she felt had poor business practices in the past. She was concerned about how she would be able to handle the potential situation where her ethics and the ethics of the company did not align. While, ultimately, she chose to take the …
Tagged with: business ethical dilemma, management, Personal Branding, work ethics
Posted in Workplace Success
Posted in Workplace Success
My 3 Golden Rules for Remote Workers
I’ve been working remotely for the past nearly 5 years. I have a home office, I have a local cafe, I get terrific amounts of work done and I’m far more productive than when I worked in an office day in and day out. Sorry, Marissa Mayer, I get more done outside of an office. …
Tagged with: freelancing, Hard Skills, management, remote working, telecommuting
Posted in entrepreneurship, Personal Branding, Skill Development, Workplace Success
Posted in entrepreneurship, Personal Branding, Skill Development, Workplace Success
The Value Of Profit & Making Money
3 Tips For Maximizing Speaking Engagement Value
As a regular speaker at conferences and events around the world, I’m often asked what are some tips for maximizing the value of speaking engagements. Here are my 3 top tips to leverage your speaking engagements:
1. Wow your audienceDon’t skimp on your PowerPoint time. Bullet points are rarely going to impress anyone. Do …
