Category: Personal Branding
8 Tips to Leave Your Day Job and Start Your Business
One of the scariest things to do is drop your day to day nine to five. The paycheck is steady and it comes with a nice health-care package. Lunch with co-workers provides time to unwind and talk about what’s going on in the world. The hours are steady and while it may be demanding, there [...]
Lessons Anyone Can Take From Their Local Diner
Every town has them (especially the small ones), that one diner that everyone knows about and that has been a part of the community for years and years. You know, the one where you know the waitresses by name and can recite their menu? Ya, that place. Well, I’ve learned a couple lessons from my [...]
Lessons in Trademark Protection from Beyoncé and Jay-Z
Celebrity babies are big business, there’s no question about that. This, coupled with Jay-Z’s demonstrated business acumen, makes it no surprise that Hova and Beyoncé filed just a few weeks ago to register “Blue Ivy Carter” as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This would be enough to make headlines [...]
How to Avoid Social Media Outrage
“Do not eat here. They only allow 1 refill and charge for sharing meals, including pizza. The portion was small compared to the price. I now know why this place was empty when I walked in!” -Tip on foursquare from an angry male customer A man walks into a small Italian restaurant located in a [...]
How to Create the Next Bill Gates
I had drinks the other day with a couple of friends who’d recently had kids. They wanted to know what encouraged my interest in the business world – and what prepared me for success within it. I started thinking about what impacted my entrepreneurial skills, knowingly or not. You don’t need to teach your kids [...]
The 4.0 That Really Matters In Life
Today, even a 4.0 GPA isn’t enough to guarantee you success personally or professionally. Though important, the world’s most successful people didn’t have the best GPAs. There are other measurements that correlate with your long-term success better than the GPA alone. The real 4.0 that matters after college and in your career is your personal [...]
Start Building Your Personal Brand Today: Be An Expert
In business, establishing yourself as the expert or go-to guy in your field is the difference between mediocrity and world-class success. Think about any business, industry or expertise, and there is at least one, but more likely a few competing, experts, trying to vie for the official or unofficial top expert in the field. Why [...]
It’s All Your Fault! So Start Working Harder
I don’t know why so many people blame others for their failures or mishaps in their lives… Maybe it’s their ego, maybe in society failure is seen as weakness, maybe people will make fun of them…Or maybe it’s just easier to blame others for their problems? “It’s not that I’m doing anything wrong, he’s preventing [...]
Why Laser Focus Leads to Success
In 2010, Google’s Eric Schmidt said that we are creating as much information now in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003. Let’s also consider the fact that man has been around for about 200,000 years. This means that every two days, we produce over 200,000 years of data. [...]
Infographic: How Napping Can Help Your Business
Do you nap during the day? Do you let your employees nap during the work day? Napping during the work day is being incorporated into more and more offices around the country to help employee performance. We found this great infographic below to show some of the benefits of napping and how to do it [...]
