Looking today for some inspiration for a blog post, I decided to take a dive into the archives (a standard tip as one of the ways to deal with blogger’s block). I noticed that back in October 2004 I had posted here about some key principles to which Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson is said […]
June 4, 2009
My New Self-Designed Business Card
I need a new business card and I’m thinking through what I need to have on it and what the basic look will be. My existing one is a 2007 quick adaptation I did online of a professionally designed card which was originally done about four years ago. The old card is pictured here. With […]
January 30, 2009
Just How Valuable is Personal Branding?
I’ve been wondering whether Personal Branding is a Good Thing for me to pursue, or not. As I continued the process I wrote about yesterday, of figuring out how to answer effectively the “What do you do?” question and – by extension – how that might be something people could be interested in paying me […]
August 23, 2008
Business and Branding #4: Online Reputation Management
n the third post in this series on business and branding I shared some thoughts about the concept of “Brand You”. An important part of the process of building your “Brand You” is taking steps to protect the brand and its reputation. When it comes to talking about the importance of protecting our reputation, I […]
Gravatars – What, Why and How to Get One
A quick guide to the gravatar If you’ve noticed, when you leave a comment on a blog post, that other commenters have images of themselves alongside their comments but your comment has only a grey “mystery man” blob or a symbol like the one in the margin here, where the others have pictures of themselves, […]