Personal Branding Weekly – Your Brand Story in 60 seconds
This past weekend the Personal Branding Blog was down. If you tried to reach out, you only saw “Error in Establishing Database Connection”. That’s why you’re receiving the Personal Branding Weekly so late this week. We were not able to establish the connection until late in the evening of this past Monday into early in …
Personal Branding Weekly – Developing Your Offline Connection Skills
Ever connect with someone who’s so witty, quick to respond online who has such an engaging online personality and then is a total dud when you meet them away from the keyboard?
Communication matters both online and offline. How do you connect in a more effective with people face-to-face?
Provide them an opportunity to be…Personal Branding Weekly – Are You Blowing the Referral Process?
You don’t have to be a small business owner to value referrals. Individuals, professionals, executives and job seekers can also benefit from a referral. A referral is when someone lends their reputation and credibility to you by connecting you with someone who knows, likes and trusts them or by being a third party who validates …
Personal Branding Weekly – How to Create Meaningful Attention
Because content has been touted as “king”, we see many spewing out loads of content thinking that is the way to draw attention to their personal brand. The question then is “any content good content?”
Twitter as an engagement toolOn Twitter, you hear the advice of “tweet 8 times a day to get noticed”. …
Personal Branding Weekly – Less is the New More
Raise your hand if you are so done with the selfie! Me, too. In fact, I find the most interesting people are not the compulsive selfie takers, they’re the ones actually focused on the conversation and the connection.
Yes, I’ve met Chris Brogan and yes, I know him by name. The same with Jon Loomer, …
Personal Branding Weekly – Does Personal Branding Work for Introverts?
During a group coaching meeting, I was asked if personal branding works for an introvert?
The answer is yes.
Yes, you still need to discover what makes you unique. Understanding your strengths and how you can communicate in a way that is uniquely you, is also a part of personal branding.
It’s important to reframe …
Personal Branding Weekly – Have You Zombified Your Personal Brand?
It’s not even been a month since the season finale of the television show, The Walking Dead, and I’m already missing it. If only that is what I was referring to in this headline, but it’s not. Last week I wrote about the Wacom customer service representative who was robotic and barely human as he …
Personal Branding Weekly – Protect Yourself from Bad Company
We often write about how to keep our reputation clean to get the best opportunities or to be seen in the most positive and professional light.
What happens if the company you work for has a bad reputation? What if they’re known for their poor customer service, poor human resource practices or bad business? How …
Personal Branding Weekly – Don’t Post My Pic
Often this is an afterthought after a great weekend, great night out or out of town conference. We know and have more than enough material available to us about the impact this has on your personal brand and some great practices to implement to prevent embarrassing or professional devastating occurrences in the future.
This time …
Personal Branding Weekly – Do You Sound Lame?
If you’re using the words “sorry” and “thanks”, then you run the high risk of sounding lame. These two words are thrown around so haphazardly and without any genuine feeling that they rank as having negative effects on your personal brand much like “umms”, “you knows” and “stuff like that”.
Are you guilty of using…