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12 Books to Read to Learn More About Personal Branding
Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success by Dan Schawbel. Publisher of this blog and Student Branding blog, Schawbel breaks down personal branding into four distinct steps: discover, create, communicate, and maintain in this book about achieving success in your job and career.
Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand by…
Tagged with: authenticity, branding, personal brand, Personal Branding
Posted in Brand Yourself As, Education, Personal Branding
Posted in Brand Yourself As, Education, Personal Branding
The New Era of Protean Careers
Welcome to the age of Protean Careers
Get used to the term for it’s here to stay. Better yet, we all better get used to the concept of Protean Careers. Indeed, the American workplace has changed forever; and this is presenting significant problems for many who have come to depend upon the “Industrial Age” workplace. …
Tagged with: careers, employment, job search
Posted in Career Development, Education, Job Search, Success Strategies
Posted in Career Development, Education, Job Search, Success Strategies
Are Your Expectations Too Low?
You get what you expect
John was dying. He knew he had months at most to live and, at age 68, he evaluated his life for the first time. He remembered a quote from a book he read years ago by Neale Donald Walsch that went, “Somewhere between the ages of 40 and 50, most …
Tagged with: achievement, expectations, success
Posted in Career Development, Education, Job Search, People, Success Strategies
Posted in Career Development, Education, Job Search, People, Success Strategies
Why Does Everyone Have To Be “Right”
Is it true that schools now contract police during Debate Classes because each party to the debate is so intense; so confident that they are correct, that if they don’t win the debate or get the other side to accept their views, violence will break out? Has the United States crossed the line where each …
Tagged with: achievement, altercations, anxiety, courage
Posted in Career Development, Education, Job Search, management, People, Reputation Management, Social Media
Posted in Career Development, Education, Job Search, management, People, Reputation Management, Social Media
Pros and Cons of Combining Your Social Identities
Social media has all but reinvented the concept of personal branding. With the establishment of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and other social media platforms, the opportunities for development, expression and expansion of personal brands has grown to extend never seen before.
Social media presenceI’ve spoken to many brand-conscious professionals, many from the Gen X …
Tagged with: Facebook, online identities, Personal Branding, Social Media, twitter
Posted in eBrand, Education, Personal Branding, Social Media, Success Strategies
Posted in eBrand, Education, Personal Branding, Social Media, Success Strategies
Personal Branding Lessons from New York Fashion Week
Since moving to New York City in 2005, I’ve found that my favorite way to bring in my favorite season (fall) is with New York Fashion Week. The shows; the parties; the hair; the clothes — something about it just amazes me. I, like many other New Yorkers, put on a fashionable outfit (that I …
Tagged with: branding, fashion, fashion week, Personal Branding, work clothes, work outfits
Posted in Education, Personal Branding, Positioning, Reputation Management, Success Strategies
Posted in Education, Personal Branding, Positioning, Reputation Management, Success Strategies
Facebook Places and Your Brand
Now that Facebook has decided to one-up Foursquare and other location-based platforms I thought it might be useful to think about what Facebook Places means for a brand. By now any social media savvy person knows the do’s and don’ts of checking in (if not, see my previous article here). There are some game changes …
Tagged with: Facebook Places, geolocation, social media branding
Posted in Education, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media
Posted in Education, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Social Media
Announcing the Launch of Millennial Branding, LLC
Back in 2007, I had a vision of creating a “personal branding world.” A world in which everyone would have the opportunity to stand out and achieve success through the internet. The blue logo compass with the black silhouette, that you still see on all of my websites today, was established to become your guide …
Tagged with: Millennial Branding
Posted in Career Development, Corporate Branding, eBrand, Education, events, magazine, Me 2.0, Personal Branding
Posted in Career Development, Corporate Branding, eBrand, Education, events, magazine, Me 2.0, Personal Branding
Personal Branding Interview: Donald Asher
Personal Branding Interview: Anya Kamenetz
Today, I spoke to Anya Kamenetz, who is a financial speaker, bestselling author of Generation Debt, a Yahoo! Finance columnist, and a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine. Her latest book is called DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. In this interview, Anya talks about the issues with the higher …
