3 Ways To Implement Your Personal Brand Offline
For most professionals, personal branding thrives online. Through juggling social media profiles, managing reputation, creating content, and securing our sites, we may forget that personal branding can also be done in person – and can be just as effective, if not more so.
Attending an industry event, association meeting, or even a professional cocktail hour …
Blogging For Your Brand: 3 Factors To Consider
In September 2010, I wrote about the benefits of leveraging a blog for your personal brand. Going into 2012, it still remains to be a great way to shape and promote your brand online. The benefits gained from blogging can lead to great success, whether it’s to securing a job or becoming an expert in …
How to Build Your Brand With A Common Name
After completing a quick Google search of yourself and seeing your name, but none of your matching sites or profiles, how can you make sure your personal brand can be spotted? For those who have a common first and last name, this problem is constant battle.
If others with your name are overshadowing you online, …
3 Personal Brand Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making
You’ve spent a lot of time and effort carefully maintaining your personal brand (as you should). But you may be overlooking some crucial factors that can weaken your brand over time – and are easily fixable.
Here are the three personal brand mistakes to watch out for:
Following ALL the Trends. Why?
If you’re a …
5 More Personal Branding Trends For 2012
The new year is finally here, and it’s a perfect time for job seekers to revamp their personal brands!
Resolutions aside (though those are important, too), every personal brander should be aware of the direction personal branding is headed in 2012. Some trends are evergreen and some are just emerging, but take note for your …
How To Make Your Personal Brand Stand Out
With so many people out there trying to create and establish their own personal brands, it’s hard to get heard above all the noise. Everyone wants to stand out, but the truth is many people won’t be successful. This is because personal branding takes a lot of effort and time. It’s not something you can …
3 Reasons Why Personal Branding Is a 24/7 Job
It is no secret personal branding is a constant job requiring updating, rejuvenating, fine-tuning, and renovation. However, it can be confusing as to why it needs so much work. There are many aspects that play into your brand, and they require you to work around the clock.
Richard Branson, entrepreneur and CEO & founder of …
How Your Personal Brand Will Get You Hired
As Dan Schwabel has said before, “If a resume was the deciding factor in recruitment, there would never be a need for interviews.”
Here are some reasons how your personal brand can get you hired.
It will make you stand out.
By creating your personal brand prior to job searching, you have a leg up …
Using Pinterest To Display Your Personal Brand
Your personal brand is all about showing what you know and love. So why not use a virtual pin board to do so? This is where Pinterest — a website designed for users to post different things they have found online — comes in. It is a way other than written text to demonstrate your …
Fine-Tune Your Personal Brand For National Career Development Month
November marks the National Career Development Association’s (NCDA) annual National Career Development Month. This year the theme is “My Career Dreams,” and participants are encouraged to share what their dreams are regarding their career or future career. Making your personal brand better is one way to celebrate with NCDA this month!
With National Career Development …