With over 10 million Americans now out of work and the national average for unemployment hovering around 6.5%, finding a job is no easy task. I spend Tuesday afternoons working at a local Starbucks coffee shop and week after week I would see the same man reading and occasionally talking on the phone. Read the rest of this entry »
Enlightening birds eye view of personal branding in this presentation by Dan Schawbel. He covers the four parts of everyone’s personal brand: discover, create, communicate, and maintain, then gives some really practical tools for implementing each of these things in your life. Read the rest of this entry »
As business professionals experiencing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression it’s easy to let stress get the best of us. Maybe your company is experiencing layoffs, perhaps a spouse has been demoted, or the monthly mortgage payment is looming and you don’t know where the money is coming from. Read the rest of this entry »
Nectar has gone live and we couldn’t be more excited! Our dream from the beginning has been to help people market themselves more effectively by establishing a great looking online presence that goes live quickly and all for a price that doesn’t make you question your sanity. Read the rest of this entry »
The personal branding space is really starting to heat up and so I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of influential people and helpful tools to obtain knowledge and tips for developing your personal brand. (Listed in no particular order) Read the rest of this entry »
The English poet John Donne once said, “No man is an island…” and the emphasis on teams in the world of business in the last decade or so has been an attempt to live into this reality. What we’ve realized is that work isn’t accomplished by isolated individuals in little cubicles, but instead is done by groups of people coordinating their efforts towards a common goal. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’ve been following Nectar for a bit you’ll know that we don’t approach business in the typical fashion. As an example, we tend to prefer working in intense collaborative programming sessions that we have termed ‘Hackathons’. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes I can’t help but chuckle at the stereotypical entrepreneur we all envision. Tall (at least 6″3′), male between 30 and 45 years of age, big booming voice (HEEEEY JOHNNY!), oozing confidence out of every pore of their body, glad handing and networking extraordinaire. Read the rest of this entry »
We just caught Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynote speech from the Web 2.0 Expo and it’s incredible. For those of you who don’t know him, Gary Vaynerchuk is best described as someone who acts like he’s experienced a near-death encounter…although to my knowledge, this has never occurred. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Cuesta is an expert on personal branding. In his video he has some great insights into what exactly personal branding is, how personal branding helps you focus on your strengths, and the relationship between the personal and corporate brands. You can also check out Rob’s Blog.