Monthly Archives: June 2009

Personal Positioning: Degrees of separation? 3 is the new 6

News

Thanks to personal branding and the advent of web 2.0 the world is becoming flatter! Not literally of course, but between Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, the world does seem a little closer every day. Anyone is really only TWO people away. This means that the 6 degrees of separation has now become 3 degrees. So if you want to meet someone, that means if your friends don’t know him, then your friend’s friend does and this is changing the way that we’re doing business!

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What’s Your Personal Brand Equity – Tune in to the True Measure of Your Personal Brand

News

Personal branding expert Dan Schawbel has said: “You are the chief marketing officer for the brand called you, but what others say about your brand is more impactful than what you say about yourself.” With many career successes, you may be well aware of your unique value, but your own assessment of yourself is just

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Personal Positioning: Identify Your Passion and Build Personal Brand

News

This is a guest post by Matt Wilson.  Matt is co-founder of http://Under30CEO.com a social network for young entrepreneurs.  His mission is to lead people to go out and do something they are passionate about instead of falling into the rat race and playing by corporate America’s rules.  Under30CEO’s newsletter http://HelpAnEntrepreneur.com allows anyone to ask

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Start Your Personal Brand Writing A Professional Bio

How To

8 Tips To Write A Professional Bio Ft Dan Schawbel View more OpenOffice presentations from Trace Cohen. Create a Brand-Yourself.com Account to Manage Your Online Reputation! Brand-Yourself.com is an award winning toolset that helps you proactively manage your online reputation and promote yourself across the social web. Create an account today to see how we

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Personal Brand Management – Your Personal Brand Online Affects Your Career Success

News

Personal Brand Management – Your Personal Brand Online Affects Your Career Success

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Our domain registrar is now and up running!

News

You now have the ability to buy your own unique domain names through us! For as low as $3 a month you can have your own website (yourname.com) and start creating your personal professional website. If you dont have an account you can sign up here or go to the “Upgrade” page which you can

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A Personal Branding Option – Build Your Personal Brand Using Social Media

How To

A Personal Branding Option – Creating Your Personal Brand Using Social Media

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Social Media Etiquette – The Proper Way to Send and Accept a LinkedIn Invitation

Social Media Strategy

When you invite somebody to link to you on LinkedIn, please personalize the note that goes with the invitation. In fact, you should rarely – if ever – use the LinkedIn text defaults anywhere. Here’s the default LinkedIn invitation text: Walter, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. John Pretty lame.

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Job Search Tips: Example Thank You Notes

Job Search

Use the following example thank you notes as a starting point when you need to send one to a hiring manager. This is the second post in our series on thank-you notes – the first, How To Write Thank You Notes, was so popular we had to follow up! So check out the examples below.

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Protect Your Online Reputation: Who Is Looking For You?

Online reputation management

What people can find out about you in Google matters to your success in life. Search engines are how we do quick background checks, whether we just met someone new or are researching someone we haven’t met. You can’t control who Googles you, but you can control what they find. People Are Looking For You

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