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Using Six Hats Thinking To Build Your Personal Brand

Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats can help you strengthen your personal brand as a valued team member and potential leader, playing an important role during meetings. Although originally published in 1985, Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats continues to play an important role in creative thinking for leading businesses and governments around the world. [...]

Build Your Personal Brand by Simplifying Your Message

Tips for simplifying your message in order to strengthen your personal brand.

How to Audit Your Personal Brand Building

Here are 7 questions to ask yourself as you audit your personal brand building efforts this week. As the first quarter of 2013 ends, and 2013′s second quarter begins, take a little time to audit your recent personal brand building activities. Audits play a crucial role in personal brand building success. They provide an opportunity [...]

Easy, Universal Blogging Idea for Personal Branding Success

Are you looking for an easy blog post idea that you can use over and over again to build your personal brand–regardless of your field? Serendipity and a willingness to look for inspiration everywhere can play big dividends. Often, the best ideas for building your personal brand come from reading books outside of your field. [...]

The Value of Face Time for Your Personal Brand

Even as an established author who has held book signings before, I have to admit that I was nervous when I set out for Cherry Hill, NJ, this past Saturday. It was my first signing for my latest book, When Talent Isn’t Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined, but I wasn’t sure why I [...]

Tips for Personal Brand Building Success with SlideShare

SlideShare offers numerous opportunities for enhanced personal and corporate brand building. SlideShare offers an efficient way for authors, individuals, and self-employed professionals to build their personal brand in a search engine and social media-optimized environment. Authors, job hunters, and self-employed professionals can post PowerPoint presentations online, where they can attract viewers, enhance your online presence, [...]

Building a Lasting Personal Brand

Which is going to last longer; your job, your personal brand, or your life? Although your retirement may be decades away, it’s not too early to think about how long your personal brand will continue to serve you. The importance of long-term personal branding is especially important because of the increased life expectancy you can [...]

How 30 Superachievers Built Their Personal Brands

The Art of Doing, by Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield, is for you if you’re looking for examples and tips for building your personal brand by becoming a superachiever in your field. The Art of Doing also offers you an excellent template for writing a book to build your personal brand, if your goal is [...]

Guide to Personal Brand Building Using Kindle Publishing

Learn how to write and self-publish a book to build your personal brand with the help of Ryan Deiss’s Kindle Publishing Revolution. Writing and publishing a book remains the best strategy for building your personal brand. Writing a book establishes you as an expert in your field, instantly differentiating you from your competition and opening [...]

Unexpected: What Happened 6 Months Since Publishing My Ebook

6 months ago on June 12, 2012, I published my multimedia ebook Camera Ready: How to Present Your Best Self and Ideas On Air or Online. After having two kids and “leaning back” in my career (as Anne-Marie Slaughter and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg call it) by freelancing part-time for a couple of years, I [...]