- Five Tools for Tracking, Measuring, and Evaluating Your Personal Brand Online by William Arruda
The best kind of personal branding combines real-world communications with virtual visibility and community-building via social media.
Online brand-building enables you to reach beyond the people you can connect with in person and allows you to measure the impact of your ...
- Social Media and Your Personal Brand: Five Steps to Building Your Brand in Bits & Bytes by William Arruda
The ubiquity of social-media tools has made personal branding even more pervasive, powerful, and efficient. Personal branding has moved online. Many Web 2.0 tools designed for building community and fostering lively discussion—such as LinkedIn, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter—are ideal for ...
- 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.
- What's the Color of Your Personal Brand? by William Arruda
Color is powerful. It's an important personal-branding tool, so use it wisely and consistently to support your personal-branding activities. To make the most of your color, follow these five rules.
- Four Four-Letter F-Words That Stall Your Career
by William ArrudaIf 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.) ...
- How Do I Love Thee...? Ten Tips for Using Web 2.0 to Give Back to Your Professional Network by William Arruda
Effective networking is all about giving. One of the best ways to give to your network members is to help them build their personal brands. And if you help them build their brands on the Web, you demonstrate how savvy ...
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- Personal Branding Predictions: The Top 9 for '09
by William ArrudaPersonal branding is something that every career-minded professional needs to be thinking about—every day, and with everything they do. With the recession growing in severity and marketing budgets being cut, now is the time for you to be thinking about ...
- 22 Questions (and Answers!) About Leveraging LinkedIn to Enhance Your Marketing (and Your Marketing Career)
by Ann HandleyGems 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 ...
- 22 Questions (and Answers!) About Leveraging LinkedIn to Enhance Your Marketing
by Ann HandleyLike 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 ...
- Three Small Tips to Juice up Your Personal Branding
by Daniel SchawbelWhat goes unnoticed by many can be an keen advantage for the few. By taking steps to not only build a personal brand but also seek new ways to circulate your name, you will be more successful. Here are three ...
- Step Into The Spotlight!—'Cause All Business Is Show Business! by Tsufit
There's so much that business can learn from showbiz: Not to step onto the stage with a lousy script. How to give a blockbuster performance. How to get your face in the newspaper without robbing a bank. But, before you ...
- 8 Career Must-Do's for '08
by Jason AlbaThis 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 ...
- Four Controversial Questions About LinkedIn (and How to Resolve Them)
by Jason AlbaOf course you know what LinkedIn is. You already have an account, right? So what's the next step? Here are four thorny questions about LinkedIn (and their related answers) to help you get the most out of this professional social ...
- Eight Things to Do Right Now to Get More out of LinkedIn
by Jason AlbaYou'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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- The Personal Brand Champion of the World by Nick Wreden
He could stop traffic in Moscow, Tokyo, Nairobi, Shanghai, and Mumbai. Kings, presidents, and prime ministers worldwide would take his call. He outshines Madonna, Mick Jagger, and Meryl Streep. Although it has been more than 25 years since he occupied ...
- What's Your Google Identity? by William Arruda
To be successful today, you must have a clear and compelling online identity.
People are googling you and making decisions about you from what Google reveals. Whether you are an employee looking to advance in your company, a professional seeking your ...