In the event of a technical demonstration meltdown, a failed smile and scramble to correct a presentation, or a smooth transition to printed material and verbal description, will tell you just how confident a sales person is in his product and organization. It is a top-down mindset. HR Demo Show organizer John Sumser believes theRead more
On Tuesday, 3/31/10, I appeared on the DriveThru HR blogtalkradio show. Here is the podcast of the show. Show Name: (Replay) – "LinkedIn should be your friend" – DriveThru HR Show Date / Length: 3/31/2010 11:00 AM – 30 min Description: Host Bryan Wempen will be visiting about LinkedIn with Craig Fisher @Fishdogs ownerRead more
Sometimes its who you know and who they know. Last summer I was introduced to the president of The Loomis Agency, Mike Sullivan. Maybe re-introduced is more accurate. We first met years ago at the wedding of mutual friend, Lauren Mulkey. Now Lauren, in her business development capacity with Loomis, a 20-year old Dallas creativeRead more
What a week it has been. I keep getting surprised by how cool Twitter is and how many new relationships I have made there in the last few months. You can’t achieve anything quite like this anywhere else. There are very few people that I network with on Twitter that I knew prior to joiningRead more
A big question I am often asked about Micro-Blogging service, Twitter, is simply this, “So what do you do on Twitter, just tell people what you’re doing?” And my answer is usually, “No”. I use Twitter to network with early adopters and people all over the world who have similar interests in social media andRead more
Great post from CareerFire.com by GUEST BLOGGER on JANUARY 4, 2009 Today’s career environment is different, at least for the information workers. What’s different is that there are more ways to influence getting a job than in the past. You probably already know that the old saying is true: “it’s not what you know; it’sRead more
If your company’s HR department is not already utilizing Web 2.0 tools and Social Media to market the company to job seekers, it should be. A new report by Gartner, Inc., shows that even though corporate marketing and web strategies are embracing social media, HR departments are generally slow to align with those efforts forRead more
This is a great post by Jun Loayza on Brandon Mendelson’s blog for Newby internet marketers, existing bloggers who are not monitizing their efforts, and jobseekers wishing to brand themselves as experts in their field in order to get noticed and recruited. How to make a profitable blog with under $20 – The Graduate StudentRead more
This month Lisa Parker, CPRW, posted a great article with straight forward advice for establishing and marketing your business online. Most of these principles can be applied to personal branding for other objectives, such as job hunting or hiring, as well. The Art of Establishing Your Personal Business Brand Each of us sports around ourRead more
I have a problem. I really like Twitter. And you should too. In my quest to learn and pass along personal branding tips I have experimented with all kinds of tools. I firmly believe you need a good blog to help establish your personal brand. But you need to get people to read it. InRead more
There is a nice article posted last week by Eric Brantner on DigitalLabz.com entitled 10 Secrets of the Best Social Media Users . It is a terrific list for businesses wanting to use the (less and less) alternative marketing conduit of Social Media. Most of it applies to individuals for promoting your personal brand asRead more
After reading a great article by Patrick de Laive on the Next web called the ultimate personal branding wordpress theme, I started thinking about something that I wrote in response to his main question which was: "if blogging is a must in personal branding, how come there is no ultimate personal branding blogging theme forRead more
Below is a quick and dirty list of some of my favorite Blogger resources. Blogging is one of the best ways to improve your online brand. But don’t be generic. You need to stand out. There are several different programs and sites you can choose from to start your own blog. I use www.Blogger.com becauseRead more
