WHAT I WRITE ABOUT: ‘Personal And Business Branding’

This past week I enjoyed a chance to share a few ideas on creating your own brand promise with Tess Vigeland, national radio host for Marketplace Money. She found me via the blog posts I write for U.S. News And World Report.  Specifically a post I wrote on the new career: a perpetual  job search. [...]

Note: Today’s post is a bit of an advertisement.  So if you are not a regular follower of Tim’s Strategy, I’ll leave it up to you to read on. But I hope you do. If you are a regular follower, I’d love to get your feedback and support.  Really. Announcement from Tim’s Strategy I formalized [...]

This week is about reinvention.  Fixing problems. And about creating momentum in business and in life.  It starts Thursday with an event to introduce the new concept. This one’s in Orange County, but read to the end of this post to learn about creating a similar event in your community. The concept is called Fix, [...]

So in some ways this is a silly question.  Because your answer might be: Mine! But after tossing around in the social media clothes dryer for a while you start to notice things.  The more you look.  That there are distinct types of people and distinct personalities. I’m not the only one who’s noticed this.  [...]

Using the internet to accomplish something great takes two things. Attraction and engagement. And whether  your “something great” is finding a job, establishing influence or marketing a new business, you need to be good at both to succeed. No matter what your venture, we’re all trying to attract and engage hummingbirds.  Hummingbirds you say? When [...]

How is your brand message being delivered?  And how is it being received? We all have a story to tell. Some are tough hard luck stories.  Some are stories of fortune.  Or of great adventure. What’s your story? The problem? Most stories aren’t that interesting.  To others anyway.  You have to work at it. And [...]

Job seekers struggle to answer a very basic question.  Sometimes they don’t know the answer.  Sometimes they answer with way too much information.  And sometimes they are incredibly vague with hopes that they’ll be considered for a lot of different jobs. But the truth is that social networking for a new job requires specifics.  Details. [...]