What Your Lack of Personal Intelligence Costs You
When people think about lowering their bills, a lot of small purchases become suspect. Your daily Starbucks habit, at $32 per gallon if you calculated it that way, is an easy mark. A lot of people cut...
View Article4 Last-Minute Gifts to Give Your Boss and Coworkers
As final reports are submitted and employees tie up loose ends before the holidays, many are scrambling around to find the perfect gift to give their colleagues at the annual company holiday party....
View Article5 Things to Do Before Building A Personal Brand
A strong personal brand isn’t created overnight. It takes time to discover your strengths, identify your passions, and build a community of followers. In a Medium article by Gary Vaynerchuk, he talks...
View ArticleThe Personal Brand Mistakes No One Shares You’re Making
Professionals—and people in general— avoid confrontation like the plague. We live in a society that accepts, and even encourages, small social lies. When a co-worker asks, “How are you doing?” They...
View ArticleHow to Increase Traffic with Highly Shareable Content
The surefire way to drive traffic to your website is to publish highly shareable and engaging content. Not only does this help enhance your SEO rankings, but also the higher social curation — provided...
View ArticleThree Tools Will Give You A Huge Competitive Advantage
80% of open positions are never advertised, according to BH Careers International. Additionally, business owners often obtain lucrative company contracts through personal and professional connections....
View ArticleWhen Your Personal Brand is Too Good? Too Bad!
Talk about the power of a personal brand! Angela Ahrendts reputation is worth more than nearly any NBA star, the president of any country, and even Tim Cook – the CEO of Apple, where she now works....
View Article3 Wordplay Tricks For Winning Big Deals
Your winning in business cannot depend on others taking a lot of time to understand you and what you mean. If you have had a cover letter and resume simply go into the email trash bin of an HR...
View ArticleLove Your Job? Put an Exit Plan in Place.
When you hate your job, you often think about leaving it. But when you are happy with your work putting an exit plan into place seems somewhat bizarre. Nevertheless, smart employees should always be...
View Article4 Things You Need to Start Rewarding Yourself For
The problem with Millennials, according to people who have never been one, is that they expect praise and rewards for everything. Participated? Medal. Attempted? Pat on the back. Lost? Trophy. But far...
View Article10 Ways to Incorporate Media Accolades Into Your Brand
How should professionals who’ve been featured on a media list, such as Forbes 30 Under 30, use the recognition as part of their online brand? Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only...
View ArticleMyth: Personal Branding Is All About YOU
False! Personal branding is not about you, it’s about everyone else. This post is required reading for everyone who believes that myth. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/EGP3y3XaV5o] Note: I tend to do...
View ArticleWhen Does Personal Branding Become Shameless Self Promotion?
I recently wrote a post on the Viralogy Blog focusing on how non-celebrities are using Facebook Fan pages as a way to reach out and stay connected to their community. Lets face it, not everyone uses...
View ArticleWriters Need to Promote Themselves, or Go Unread
Writers hate marketing. Or most of them do. They hate promoting themselves, talking about themselves, or drawing attention to themselves in any way, any time, ever. Ev-ver. Writers — for the most part...
View ArticleCurating Your Career by Creating a Career Scrapbook
What the heck is curating your career? Curating your career is collecting information, maybe projects you were involved with, awards you won, campaigns you created and putting it all together in one...
View ArticlePassed Over for the Top Job
You have spent years building your application – solid experience, top skills, and a solid reputation. You are ready to take the leap to the next level within your organization only to see the...
View ArticleHumility: The Personality Trait That Creates Champions
Watching the World Series last week took me back to my days managing professional baseball franchises. Over 20-years in the game I studied what it took to get minor league athletes to the major leagues...
View ArticleRichie Incognito, the NFL, Workplace Bullying to Surface
My originally intended article for this week is interrupted to discuss the National Football League’s workplace bullying problem brought to light by the Miami Dolphins’ Jonathan Martin. Bullying is...
View ArticleGiving Back for Your Legacy and Personal Brand
Have you thought about giving back lately? I have attended more than my share of funerals and memorial services in the last few years as my friends and colleagues have died before their time. It makes...
View ArticleInexpensive Resources to Help You Build a Polished Brand
In an age of extreme competitiveness, you may find yourself contending with your peers, job applicants and other business owners for coveted opportunities. And while you may be the most qualified,...
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