10 seconds to stand out
Here’s a quick tip if you use LinkedIn. When you invite someone to join your network, personalize the invitation. How tired do you get of seeing: David, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. – Some Contact There’s nothing wrong with accepting the default message and it’s certainly a benefit of [...]
“Recession-Proof” your Career
The good folks over at The Personal Branding Blog have been writing a series of tips on recession proofing your career through your personal brand. While they are titled from the point of view of personal branding, I’ve found most of the tips to have broad applicability and just make sense. The tips, currently at 10, [...]
LinkedIn vs. Facebook: initial impressions
I’ve been a user of LinkedIn for quite a few years now, although I only started using it’s advanced features over the last year. I’ve had a Facebook account for coming up on a year, but again, it’s only been over the last month or so that I’ve really started to explore using it with [...]
Leveraging Social Networks
Good news! The entrepreneurial qualities survey has reached one of my milestones. As of late Friday, I have ten responses from entrepreneurs. As you remember, I was going to leave the survey open until I had thirty total responses or ten responses from entrepreneurs. I’ve taken a quick peek at the responses and while I [...]
A Personal Branding primer
I’ve mentioned the topic of Personal Branding a few times before, but a recent post (along with a free download) on Chris Brogan’s blog got me inspired to write a primer describing my views of this concept. I’ve been hearing the term more and more, maybe you have too, so I’ve been not only giving it some thought, [...]
LinkedIn question on entrepreneurship core qualities
I’ve had good success, and some fun, over the last couple of months asking and responding to questions on the LinkedIn Q&A section. If you are a LinkedIn user and haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend giving it a test drive. It may not be a fit for you, but you should definitely know [...]
