How To
How Language Skills Can Improve Your Personal Brand
How To
Please let me know in the comments how speaking a second or a their language has helped your brand or when it didn’t because you didn’t speak the language.
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Tagged brand yourself, How To, Networking, Ola Rynge, Personal Branding
HOW TO: So You Want to Start a Blog?
Strategy
Having a blog with useful information which is “share-able” makes it easier for people to refer your business. So what are you waiting for?
Posted in How To, Strategy
Tagged blog, blogger, blogging, godaddy, how to blog, make a blog, Problogger, Social Media, start a blog, stumbleupon, typepad, wordpress
Etiquette in Day to Day College Life
How To
Be conscious of what you’re posting online in both words and images, especially since social media is now taking a rather prominent role in hirings. When you get hired down the road, you’ll be thanking your lucky stars that you remembered some etiquette (and that college gave you the proper skills to get hired).
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Tagged social media etiquette
A Suit Won’t Solve It
How To
At that point, I realized how important it was to lay the foundation by teaching basic principles of building and maintaining one’s personal image.
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How To Build Basic Leadership Qualities
How To
As a result, I spent years studying business and other leaders to figure out, “What does it mean to be a leader?” Finally, I learned much of what makes a great leader are the things both spoken and unspoken. Much of this is not taught in a classroom but through years of “real world” experience.
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Tagged how to lead, leadership
Dissecting Brand You
personal brand
Figuratively speaking, if someone took a scalpel and made a dissection slice into Brand You – what would they find inside?
I contend that we would all love to think that the inside of our own personal brand would resemble the inner workings of The Terminator. We tend to think, first, of the hard stuff … the digital circuitry and titanium structure. If you’ll play along with the metaphor, we immediately think of our online reputation. That’s stuff like our LinkedIn profile, the number of followers we’ve attracted on Twitter, the blog posts we’ve authored and the Google search results that are associated with our name. And that is all well and good. It is important–but it’s only one level.
Posted in How To, personal brand
Tagged Books, Brand You, career success, Personal Branding, reputation
How to Use LinkedIn to Optimize Your Business Contacts
How To
LinkedIn is by far the most accepted professional-social networking tool in use today. With over 75 million members, this is an ideal location to connect with your professional connections and stay connected! LinkedIn has many applications that allow you to stay connected and informed about your network. The important factor is that you take advantage
Proper Business Etiquette for College Graduates and Beyond
How To
Many of us fail to forget our first job out of college. Why? That’s when much of the learning takes place. My first post college position included Assistant Media Buyer, which meant lots of negotiating plus free lunch. Not sure how much has changed, but it was during those 2-3 hour lunch breaks that I
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Cover Letter Debate: How to Know When to Send One
Job Search
Job seekers who have received advice from others on how to get a job in this tight job market have likely heard the statement “make yourself stand out” on many occasions. There are a bunch of great strategies out there that, when followed, can really make a difference in a job search. To stand out,
Posted in Brand-Yourself.com, Career, How To, Job Search
Tagged Cover Letter, cover letters, job search tips, jobseeker
10 Ways to Accomplish Your Goals through Social Media
Strategy
No matter where you are in your work life–recent college graduate, mid career or closing in on retirement–“there’s s an app for that,” as the saying goes. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, smart phones, WiFi–everywhere we go we are literally and figuratively connected. Social media is about word of mouth marketing, developing relationships and connecting with people.
Posted in Brand-Yourself.com, How To, personal brand, Social Media, Strategy
Tagged accomplish goals, Social Media
