personal branding posts, articles, and infographics

Sharpening the saw on your leadership and personal branding efforts

April 30, 2010 by Drew McLellan with 155 views

Two good friends and smart cookies have just released some great content available to you for free! Terry Starbucker has been blogging about leadership and life for many years now over at Ramblings from a Glass Half Full. He's captured some of his best thinking and insights in a free e-book called Leadership from a Glass Half... [read more]

Your Personal Brand is Not About You

March 1, 2010 by Tac Anderson with 307 views

Personal branding is not about you. It requires a lot of hard work, persistence in the face of repeated failure and the confidence to take a stand for something but despite the blood sweat and tear you put in it’s not about you. Building your platform Building a recognizable brand, even within your community or industry, is... [read more]

Career Success Advice: Be Nice

February 15, 2010 by Bud Bilanich with 139 views

Did you watch the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Friday night? I liked it for its simple elegance. As I was watching, I took note of a line in Slam Poet Shane Koyczan’ tribute to Canada, We Are More… And some say what defines us Is something as simple as “please” and “thank you” The Canadian audience roared when they heard... [read more]

What I'm reading (10/3/09)

October 3, 2009 by Drew McLellan with 174 views

I've always loved to read... and thank God, I'm fast. So many books... so little free time. I thought I might try a new feature on the blog and every week or so, give you the skinny on the books that have caught my fancy. Most will be new ones (I am trying to whittle down the pile) but every once in awhile it will include a... [read more]

The Secret to Social Media Communication Success

August 24, 2009 by Eric Tsai with 140 views

Recently a report was released by US market research firm Pear Analytics with a statement on how 40% of Twitter messages are “pointless babble.” As you can see from the comments followed, the statement rubbed some people the wrong. Although the analysis was based from a personal value judgment on individual’s communication, it somewhat... [read more]

5 eBooks Every Entrepreneur Should Read

April 9, 2009 by Brett Duncan with 182 views

Over the past few months, I’ve been on quite a voracious schedule of ebook reading. It’s truly amazing just how much resourceful content there is out there. Here are five great reads that every entrepreneur should read at some point: 7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success by John Jantsch, DuctTapeMarketing.com: John really covers... [read more]

Dan Schawbel, Me 2.0, and Personal Branding

April 7, 2009 by Tim Berry with 889 views

What does personal branding mean to you? To me it used to be about well-known experts whose names became brands in an almost-traditional business sense: Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin, Tom Peters; they were experts whose names sold books and speaking engagements. Lately my view of presonal branding has expanded as I start following John... [read more]

Me 2.0, A Book For Gen Y On Personal Branding: Read It Online Today

April 7, 2009 by Krishna De with 423 views

The idea of personal branding is far from new but there continue to to new resources and information shared about how personal branding might be relevant to different communities. Talking this week with a client who is a Gen Y, they were sharing their concern about how some of their colleagues were really finding it difficult to find... [read more]

Personal Branding, Your Value Proposition and Success

March 24, 2009 by Bud Bilanich with 195 views

Positive personal impact is one of the keys to success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success. If you want to create positive personal impact, you need to do three things. 1) Develop and nurture your unique personal brand. 2) Be impeccable in your presentation of self – in person and on line. 3) Know and... [read more]

Drawing a Line in the Brand

March 17, 2009 by Gavin Heaton with 140 views

As the line between our personal and professional lives continues to blur, we are increasingly seeing both brands and individuals struggle with responsibility, ownership and commitment. This is being exacerbated by the accelerated uptake of social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter – where our personal and... [read more]

Personal branding in the age of Google

February 28, 2009 by Seth Godin with 203 views

A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.Three interesting resumes came to the top. She googled each person's name.The first search turned up a MySpace page. There was a picture of the applicant, drinking beer from a funnel. Under hobbies, the first entry was, "binge drinking."The second search turned up a personal blog (a... [read more]

About Marketing Yourself

August 13, 2008 by Tim Berry with 58 views

Marketing yourself requires an abandon that's hard to get right. Have you ever read the one about "sing like nobody's listening" or "dance like nobody is watching?" Do you get my point? When I lived in Mexico City, an ex-brother-in-law taught me that the secret to getting the Mexican grito -- that's that whooping shout that goes with... [read more]

Business blog and social media consulting, speaking

August 12, 2008 by Paul Chaney with 68 views

I've never been very good at self-promotion. That being said, thanks to some encouragement from a few friends I've taken the leap and am offering business blog and social media consulting and speaking services. If you visit those two pages, you'll note that I refer to myself in the third person, which does seem a bit weird. Let me know... [read more]

5 Tips for Nurturing Your Personal Brand

July 8, 2008 by Bud Bilanich with 51 views

In “Straight Talk for Success” I make the point that successful people create positive personal impact. You create positive personal impact by developing and nurturing your personal brand, dressing for success and knowing and following the basic rules of etiquette. Do you have a personal brand? How did you develop it?... [read more]

The Resume is Alive and Kickin’

May 28, 2008 by George Lenard with 112 views

This guest post from HireAbility, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap, argues for a continuing role of the resume in a largely electronic job application process, using resume parsing technology to bring the resume into the 21st Century. Link to original post [read more]

Building Social Media Relationships

May 23, 2008 by Debra Murphy with 65 views

Bookmark & Share © Add This Favorites Del.icio.us Digg Google MySpace Facebook Reddit Live Furl Yahoo MyWeb StumbleUpon More... I occasionally have conversations with people who debunk the value and power of social media. They... [read more]

The "Be Unique and Get With The Program" Dilemma

May 22, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 66 views

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) Teenagers are my favorite people to watch. Their crusade to be different leads them to dress alike, talk alike, and act alike. They are uniquely the same. It's also a survival mechanism that leads to acceptance as... [read more]

Three Tips for Creating Positive Personal Impact

May 13, 2008 by Bud Bilanich with 53 views

Today is Tuesday, so this post is on creating positive personal impact. I read a lot. Often, I find great content for this blog in local and national newspapers. That’s the case for today’s post. As you know, you create positive personal impact in three ways. 1) Developing and nurturing your unique personal... [read more]

Three + 1 Focus

May 3, 2008 by Dan Kraus with 169 views

I’ve been writing a lot about marketing lead generation, but I have been doing it with the assumption that the business owner knows what they want to be marketing. Now, if you are selling a product - yours or someone else’s - knowing what you are trying to do lead generation for is relatively easy. Products [...] ... [read more]

5 Ways Social Media Can Enhance Your Presentation Skills

April 14, 2008 by Krishna De with 114 views

Do you have to present at meetings at work? Or perhaps you are building your personal brand and platform as a professional speaker? Maybe you have a desire to get in front of the media on TV or radio? One of the great ways that I’ve developed my skills in presenting and in speaking to the media is not through attending courses but by... [read more]