You know you’ve succeeded in creating a personal brand when it is worthy of being parodied. Even those of you who are not American Idol fans must have noticed Adam Lambert’s skyrocketing success, despite the fact that some homogeneous white bread type and not he, was the winner of American Idol. Beyond his voice, Adam [...]

Ready to chuck your 9 to 5 job and head to the big time? ABC is looking for “21st-century advice guru” to add to the show. They are accepting applications (300 words) for a full time job dishing out advice to the masses. www.abc.com Share and Enjoy:

This guy has personality up the wazoo! Allow yourself to get carried away. What’s your dream? What are you waiting for?

9 endless minutes I’ll never get back (actually only really listened to 4-5). Shoemaker has no shoes… Share and Enjoy:

It Ain’t Necessarily So….Are you paralyzing your prospects by giving them too much choice? Check out Barry Schwartz’ fascinating talk on the world of choice… His conclusion? Some choice is better than none but too much choice is worse than a limited amount of choice. He doesn’t give an exact formula for the ideal amount [...]

One of the quickest ways to raise your status in the marketplace is to raise your price. Don’t believe me? Listen to this! Share and Enjoy:

In my speeches over the past few years, I joke about networkers turning down the volume on their fellow networkers during the 30 Second Infomercial portion of business networking meetings, you know, the Chamber of Commerce or Bored of Trade events. So I couldn’t help but chuckle upon finding out that the US is now [...]