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Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
www.personalbrandingblog.com
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The Personal Branding Blog offers branding and career advice from Dan Schawbel and his team of experts.
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Why You’ll Never Get A Job By Searching For One

In the early days of internet job boards, I ran an experiment. I wanted to see how many jobs I could apply to in a day. I got on this kick because searching for jobs and thoughtfully applying for the...

12 h ago

Developing Team Produces Improved Business Success

During the early years of business, I kept hearing about the importance of developing team. I didn’t quite capture why it was necessary for someone just starting out. However, the basics were in plac...

20 h ago

How One Lie Can Ruin Your Personal Brand

Last week, Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson resigned amid controversy that he had lied about his academic credentials on his resume. An activist Yahoo! investor exposed Thompson as having added a nonexisten...

1 day ago

Solve Presentation Problems With This Stolen Trick

Because I teach Pitching the Perfect Presentation at UCLA Ext., I’m always asked for tips and techniques about public speaking, which apparently more people fear than they fear death. I have an effec...

1 day ago

How To Build A Solid Startup Team

I’ve built at least 8 teams throughout my start-up career. The teams have ranged from unpaid college interns, to friends from college, to contractors from elance. I’ve learned something n...

2 days ago

Gen Y Are You Ready To Become Entrepreneurs?

I’m a Baby Boomer who has ignored the glass ceiling, age bias and has become an active, current example that “Women are The New Power Demo”. I am unfortunately not in the majority. The Kauffman Found...

2 days ago

Personal Brands – Less Is More

From employment to solopreneurship to launching your own small business, personal branding is important. Competition is fierce at all levels and it’s important to be able to communicate what makes yo...

2 days ago

Know Your Next Step: Successful Career Planning

Your career is important to you. Your brand is important to you. But they aren’t working as hard as they could for you. I guarantee it. It doesn’t take crazy time or energy to change that...

3 days ago

Action Steps To Get Started With Blogging: (Part 1)

Job loss is (unfortunately) a way of life for most of us nowadays. In many cases, it’s due to factors that we can’t even control – such as a bad economy devastating our employer. In...

3 days ago

Are We Wrong In Creating “What The Client Likes”?

A few years back, when I was working in a 900-person ad agency, a new Copywriter entered our group. As he set up shop in the office next to me, he asked: “So…this Creative Director. What kind of stuf...

4 days ago

Networking For Ever

Would you like to know one of the best yardsticks with which to measure the success of your personal brand? Here it is: the quantity and the quality of your contacts. Since the success of our persona...

5 days ago

Are You A Kobe Or A Durant?

LeBron James may have won the league MVP award for this year but it’s the two players that challenged him for the title this season whose stark differences caught my attention. With Kobe Bryant and K...

5 days ago

Avoid A ‘Take This Job And Shove It!’ Resignation!

If you happen to be one of the millions of people who are expected to leave their current jobs to take new ones in the near future, then of course you will be involved in the resignation process. No ...

6 days ago

Use Sales Techniques To Get The Interview

Just as job candidates qualify the best opportunity for themselves, the same happens on the other side of the table. You are being reviewed for the best-qualified match to help the company achieve it...

23 may 12

How To Handle Negative Feedback

It can often be difficult to handle negative feedback without damaging your personal brand. Even if the comments are being offered as constructive criticism, it can be hard for us to see it that way....

22 may 12

3 Personal Branding Must-Haves

Fundamentally, the process of personal branding includes taking time to define yourself and then intentionally connecting yourself with others who likely want what you have. The 3 essentials to perso...

22 may 12

How Andrew Bynum Hurt His Personal Brand During Game-6

The Lakers huddled together, listening to their coach in hopes of making a 20+ point comeback. Kobe was sick with the stomach flu and needed the support of his teammates to help him close out the Nug...

21 may 12

8 Steps To Converting Connections After A Conference

We spend considerable time networking in person because we know it’s still the most important way to build relationships with colleagues, peers and potential new customers. We pick the events w...

21 may 12

First Impressions: Impact In Today’s Job Market

Why do hiring managers decide in the first 8 seconds if they’re going hire a candidate or not?* The First Impressions. From handshake to hairstyle, wardrobe to watch, each component of a candidate is...

21 may 12

How To Email Just About Anyone

Did you know that if you know someone’s name, you can almost certainly email them. Its true — and A-Players choose to do this all the time. After all, what would it be worth to you to be ...

20 may 12

Draw People In When You Brand

The other day, I listened to the most mind-numbingly boring webinar I’ve ever heard. It was awful, which was a huge shame because a company was doing it to promote their services and enhance th...

20 may 12 1 person likes this

Drink More Than The “Be Remarkable” Kool-Aid.

“The key to success is to make your content remarkable.” I’ve heard this many times by people in blogs, TED videos, books, webinars, etc. I get it. But can I tell the Gurus and Visionaries something?...

19 may 12

Finding a Void and Filling It

For brands today, the competition is fierce. Unemployment rates are up, and businesses are struggling to survive. To succeed in this world, your personal or small business brand needs to be invaluabl...

19 may 12

It All Began With A Picture

There are no shortcuts to building a credible, durable and goal-oriented personal brand that delivers tangible results for your career and your life. As experts and those who have achieved remarkable...

18 may 12

Ask The Experts: Most Effective Personal Branding Tool?

I asked the The Personal Branding Blog contributors this question: What has been the single most effective personal branding tool for you and why? Elinor Stutz: Twitter In regard to the most effectiv...

18 may 12

Beware The ‘Tell Me About Yourself’ Job Interview Question!

While to many, if not most, job seekers the question seems nothing more than a “throw-away,” “warm-up” question, actually, the “Tell me about yourself” question—also known as the “90-second elevator ...

17 may 12

Flexibility Steers You Toward Increased Sales

Putting a professional foot forward each and every time we conduct business is certainly ideal. But one of the best things you can do for yourself is to recognize everyone is human and we all make er...

16 may 12

Be My Guest: Hosting Guest Bloggers

If you are an expert in your field, chances are you are taking advantage of commenting on other blogs in your area, searching for opportunities to write for other outlets, and posting links to your b...

15 may 12

Why Fear Leads To Career Fouls

At Pegasus Media World, I publish an author who deals with the silent killer of success: FEAR. It’s the stealth nature of fear that makes it so dangerous. You don’t typically recognize the majority o...

15 may 12

How To Get Clients From A Conference Or Trade-show

Over the course of a year, my company spent over $25,000 on conferences and trade-shows. Quite a lot of money for a start-up, but something that we found to be absolutely necessary to generate enterp...

14 may 12

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