Personal Branding for Online Entrepreneurs
There are a whole bunch of ways to quickly create your own authority. You could convince your old college roommate to write a testimonial for you. Create a case study on a company you never did any work for. Or purchase likes, tweets and shares from some kid who’s still living in Mom’s basement. You…
It’s said that if you put value out into the world it will come back to you in multiples. They call it the law of giving and receiving. And while I would like to think that I have always made this law a practice in my life, I would be lying if I told you…
I used to be small. I don’t mean in size. Although I suppose I was at one point. I mean in “being.” Allow me to explain. It all started when I was a kid. As the story goes, it was one of those holidays where the entire family was over our house to celebrate. Aunts….
I’m a perfectionist. And I’m not talking about being a little perfectionist-y. I’m talking about being a full blown, 100% pure, grade A, unadulterated perfectionist. Don’t believe me? Just ask anyone that has had the pleasure of knowing me for more than ten frustrating minutes and they’ll tell you all about it. Now, for those…
Suppose someone took everything you have ever said online and published it onto a full page ad in the New York Times. Every page of your website. And every Tweet you ever Tweeted. Every post you ever posted. And every comment you ever commented. Everything. Would you spend the next 24 hours scouring the neighborhood…
It sounded like a pretty stupid question when my friend Stan first asked me. What is your super power? In fact, the only reason I even agreed to give it any thought was because it clearly states in our eighteen page friendship agreement that I must humor him when it comes to this sort of…
If I remember correctly, I think it was a cat poster. He was sitting in what looked to be a comfortable chair with a smug look on his face, wearing a top hat and a monocle. And the caption below read: “You can be anything you want to be!” Now, I’m not just saying this…
Unless you have spent the last year or two living amongst the chimpanzees, I’m sure you’ve probably heard about the latest Internet plaything. Live video. And it’s kind of like if YouTube and Snapchat had a baby while Twitter watched the conception and commented on it in real time. Sort of. And you know what…
