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How to Survive the Tough Times, Personally and Professionally by Michael Beck
There's no one-size-fits-all solution to survival during challenging times. But there are some strategies that will help no matter what situation you and your business are in.
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Four Four-Letter F-Words That Stall Your Career by William Arruda
If you want to get ahead in your marketing career, stop using four-letter words that begin with the letter "F." No, we aren't talking about THAT word. (Although cursing your boss is probably not going to get you very far, either.) ...
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Tips for CMOs: Five Ways to Keep Your Team off the Chopping Block by Robbie Baxter
For most CEOs, good marketing is a bit like pornography—it's hard to define precisely, but they know it when they see it. Still, it's clear that one of the problems is that most CEOs cannot put their finger on what ...
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22 Questions (and Answers!) About Leveraging LinkedIn to Enhance Your Marketing (and Your Marketing Career) by Ann Handley
Gems of 2008: If you're like most of us, you probably have a LinkedIn profile and a slew of (or at least some) connections there. But are you leveraging LinkedIn to the best of its abilities, as both a marketing ...
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Marketers, It's Time to Hop Off the 'Time Management' Treadmill by Stephan Spencer
Gems of 2008: Ever sigh to yourself, "There just aren't enough hours in the day!"? You're not alone. Most marketers are overloaded and under-resourced. But it doesn't have to be that way. And managing your time more efficiently isn't the answer.
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22 Questions (and Answers!) About Leveraging LinkedIn to Enhance Your Marketing by Ann Handley
Like most of us, you probably have a LinkedIn profile and a slew of connections there. But are you leveraging LinkedIn to the best of its abilities, as both a marketing tool and career resource? If you aren't sure, you aren't ...
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Marketers, It's Time to Hop Off the 'Time Management' Treadmill by Stephan Spencer
Ever sigh to yourself, "There just aren't enough hours in the day!"? You're not alone. Most marketers are overloaded and under-resourced. But it doesn't have to be that way. And managing your time more efficiently isn't the answer. Nor is simply ...
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8 Career Must-Do's for '08 by Jason Alba
This is not an article that offers tips for a job search, per se. Rather, this article offers career management advice, which is applicable whether you are in a job search or happily employed, and even if you own your ...
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Fueling the Engine of Sales Success: Five Keys to Sustainable Self-Motivation by David McNally
Beaten down by a constant stream of customer "No's," some salespeople find it difficult to pick themselves up and jump back in the game. But there are other salespeople whose motivation and resilience enable them to make every customer call ...
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Eight Things to Do Right Now to Get More out of LinkedIn by Jason Alba
You've heard of it, you've read about it, you've even signed up for it—and you still wonder how to get the most out of it. LinkedIn is the most popular business networking environment around. Its jump from 13 million signups to ...
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Outsourcing and Delegating: Two Keys to Excelling in Your Career by Stephan Spencer
Marketers often lament, "If only I had more time...." Improving your productivity by using something like GTD (Getting Things Done) will take you part of the way there. But you also need to become ruthless at delegating. The more effectively you ...
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How to Brand Yourself in a Competitive Job Market: Q&A with William Arruda by Mack Collier
An increasingly competitive job market in recent years has led to the birth of the idea of "personal branding," as jobseekers look for ways to stand out to potential employers. One of the leaders of this burgeoning space is William ...
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Successful Networking Through Personal Branding by Daniel Schawbel
Some 80% of available jobs are never advertised, and over half of all employees obtain their jobs through networking. The most important component of a successful job search is your network, consisting of friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, teachers, and coworkers.
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Stop Digital Dirt From Undermining Your Employment by William Arruda
Over one-third of employers have eliminated a candidate because of "digital dirt"—information about you online that is either unflattering or inconsistent with the image you would like to portray. Digital dirt could be preventing you from getting interviews and ultimately landing ...
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Never Look for a Job Again by William Arruda
What if you never had to look for a job again? Try a job search role reversal: Instead of seeking out jobs, have them come to you. That's the future of career management—and for savvy careerists, the future is now.
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Ten Tips for Perpetual Career Management: Forget the Corporate Ladder by William Arruda
The ladder is the most enduring metaphor for career advancement, yet it is no longer constructive to think of your career progression as climbing a ladder. In today's dynamic knowledge economy, this sporadic, effortful approach to career management isn't the most ...
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The Four Principles of 'Career Distinction' by William Arruda
Professional success today requires that you change the way you think about your career—by treating career management as an ongoing activity. Creating your personal brand helps you do so—with the ultimate goal of distinguishing yourself. But before you start working on ...
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Managing Your Marketing Career in a Web 2.0 World by William Arruda
It's no longer the world of work you knew when you graduated from college. The tried and true career management techniques you've been using just don't work in today's marketplace. Working hard, writing a compelling resume, staying connected to head ...
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Job Market Secrets: Seven Tips for Acing the Million-Dollar Interview Question by Debra Feldman
That nerve-wracking question can come near the beginning of an official job interview or sneak up before the meeting is about to close. But poised executives are always ready to answer what is likely the most important question that surfaces ...
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The 10 Biggest Mistakes Marketers Make—No. 10: Failing to Be a Cash-Flow Leader by Roy Young
Marketing professionals don't get too far in their organizations unless they're perceived as true cash-flow leaders. Such leaders influence people in other parts of the organization to think in terms of how to generate cash flow. They're accountable for profitability. ...
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Gays Prefer Working in States with Marriage Equality
Other factors being equal, 71% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adults would prefer a job with an employer based in a state that recognizes marriage equality over an ...
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You Can't Not Hire Me
Thanks to the topsy-turvy economy, many marketing professionals who never planned to make a career change are suddenly looking for work. And if you belong to this job-seeking brigade—or suspect ...
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Commercial Break: Target, Brand New Day
In this regular Daily Chirp feature, William Arruda shares some of his favorite television ads. And he offers up a lesson for how the ad relates to your personal brand. ...
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Twitter + Wine = Dream Job
With all that negativity about today's job market, a bit of lightheartedness doesn't hurt, right? Well, looks like Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma City, has done so by creating THE dream ...
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My Big Fat Job List
Looking for a job in what CNN calls the "worst job market" in decades? To help with your search, we've compiled a Big Fat List of some of the most ...
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Commercial Break: The Softer Side of Sears
In this new Daily Chirp feature, personal-branding guru William Arruda digs into his vast collection of classic TV advertisements and teases out a related lesson for modern-day personal branding. First ...
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Did You Know?
Did you know that the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004? Did you know that today's learner will have 10 to14 jobs by the age ...
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Conducting a Marketing Job Search
Here's your guide to landing that perfect marketing job. Complete with exercises, checklists, and a whole boatload of advice, you can be on your way to a better, more challenging, and more rewarding position.
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Your Career Management Guide
As marketers, you juggle many projects, priorities, and agendas all at the same time. This life of multitasking sometimes means you forget one of your most important professional projects: managing your career. Although we can't help you find the time to manage your career, this template to managing your career can tell you how. With exercises, checklists and step-by-step guidelines on how to make this lifelong project - your career - your biggest professional success.
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Benchmark Survey: Communication Skills
Link directly to the raw (aggregate) data in this 2005 survey about the skill level survey respondents have in various ways of communicating. With access to the raw data, you can view the results, and even filter them to see how a subset of companies in your country or industry answered. In this way, you can interpret the data in the most meaningful way for you.
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Managing Your Marketing Career
Not only does your job require you to keep up with the new trends and strategies of the day, so does your career. This guide, with advice from some of our top career specialists, will help you identify you're strengths and weaknesses (sound familiar?), your true soulmate of a job and the best strategies for landing it. Even if you already think that you've got the career thing under control, this guide will give you new ideas and the tools to get to where you want to go, and beyond!
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