"Wait a minute", you may be saying, "I never created a ZoomInfo profile! How did I get one?" ZoomInfo aggregates information about some people and companies, and creates profiles for them. The good news. You have a page one (probably) Google search result for your name without lifting a …
Personal Branding
Pick Up the Phone to Build Trust With Your Executive Network
I spoke to my friend and colleague Pete Kistler, CEO of Brand-yourself.com, for the first time last week, although I had been a guest blogger at the Brand-yourself blog for about a year, and then a weekly blog columnist since last December. Neither of us had ever picked up the phone to connect. …
Daily Personal Branding Tips from the Experts
In a guest post on Ryan Rancatore's Personal Branding 101, Mohammed Altaee asked 15 Twitter personal branding experts to contribute their top tips in "Personal Branding Tasks You Can Do Every Day". Here are 9 of their sure-fire suggestions: 1. Continually hone your skill through self …
10 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online Without a Blog
A new client of mine understood that he needed to pump up his online presence. A Google search for his name yielded a dismal number of relevant results, plus he had a common name and the little that was out there about him was lost in a sea of same-named people. To win at executive job search in …
A Nifty Personal Brand Writing Tool: Wordnik
Most of my work day is spent writing — creating personal marketing communications for my executive clients, blog posts for my 2 blogs, guest-blogs and articles for various other blogs and websites, and my own business and career marketing materials. I love words and I'm always interested in …
How NOT to Build Your Executive Personal Brand
William Arruda, a branding pioneer who created the Reach Personal Branding program through which I defined my own brand and help my clients do the same, has created a fantastic video on what branding is all about. Watch his dynamic presentation, but here's an encapsulation of his 10 personal …
Top 100 CEOs in the World
Harvard Business Review's Magazine for January-February takes a look at which CEOs have done the best job running their companies, and ranks them on a variety of criteria. The authors, Morten T. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer, collected data on close to 2,000 CEOs worldwide to determine …
Dan Schawbel Interviews Seth Godin
The February 2010 issue of Personal Branding Magazine will be on the digital stands on February 1. But you can get a free sample issue now! Volume 3, Issue 3 is about becoming so important to your company, your customers and the people around you, that they can't live without you. When you're …
Career Rocketeer Publishes Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide
Chris Perry, founder of Career Rocketeer, has published his first volume of Launchpad, a quarterly series of exclusive articles by some of the top thought leaders in the careers industry. Contributors to this issue include personal branding pioneer William Arruda, smart networking expert Liz Lynch, …
How Did You Power Up Your Executive Brand Last Year?
January is the perfect time to reflect, take stock, evaluate, and record what you did for your brand last year, before you forget the details. If you're job-hunting or planning to be, your most recent brand-reinforcing achievements and contributions can give your personal marketing communications …