Tag: personal branding
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 [...]
3 Ways to be a Better You in 2012
You’re seemingly doing pretty well. You’re dominating work, enjoying a hobby or 2, and still making time to tweet while hanging out with your in real life friends. So you ask, “why should I add anything else to the mix?” It’s really simple logic: because you can. And because you can, you should. Spending just [...]
Top 5 Trademark Disputes of 2011
The year 2011 saw several interesting brand disputes come and go. From Twitter protecting its “Tweet” trademark to Christian Louboutin potentially losing its bid to prevent other designers from creating red-soled shoes, these cases provided several important bits of insight for business owners and entrepreneurs. 1. Twitter vs. Twittad In October 2011, Twitter made headlines for [...]
Lessons Learned: Killing My Inner Control-Freak
One of the most natural human impulses is the desire to be in control. Usually the more instability a person is dealing with in their life, the more they grasp for control of whatever aspect they can. This is often why we see children with bad home lives picking up an eating disorder (if they [...]
Be Yourself, Everyone Is Already Taken
I must admit I always struggled with writing down what the core values for my company BackPocket COO would be. In fact, I found it easier to put them in place for companies I’ve built in the past because I had teams of people. Now my company is me, and some awesome virtual people doing [...]
The Mental Devil is Real – Learn to Embrace Your Inner Critic
Becoming an entrepreneur is a funny business, isn’t it? Everyone tells you that you need to be determined, to follow your heart in spite of the odds, and if you encompass passion for the idea, success will follow. Yet, then those same folks will turn around and advise you to pay attention to your inner [...]
The Truth Behind a Creative Slump
Initially I set out to write an informative piece on how to help entrepreneurs get over those creative slumps by doing some research and providing helpful advice. I wanted to create a set of rules and practices to help them continue trucking. I then found myself in my own creative hole not being sure where [...]
Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew in College
So with the addition of Gmails Priority inbox I was filtering out some of my oldest starred mail in efforts to reorganize my inbox when I came across an incredibly powerful email from a friend that was sent to me just before my college graduation. Take a look and see what you can learn… To: [...]
A Surefire Method to Experience Joy in Your Life
Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using. You live in a “me-centered” world in which you interpret everything that happens in terms of “What is its impact on me.” Your [...]
