Becca Willcox of Capital Grille: Establishing Relationships And Personal Brand

Posted on March 22, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.

Becca Willcox, Sales and Marketing Manger at the Capital Grille, speaks about how to build your brand while working in the service industry as well as how to maintain professional relationships. Willcox is also working towards raising $1 million dollars for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through Capital Grill and local businesses in the Northern Virginia Area.

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Mark Drapeau Interview: Director of Innovative Social Engagement at Microsoft

Posted on March 17, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.

Renaissance man Mark Drapeau explains how he balances his personal and professional brands and the best stratgies for using social media. This former scientist turned innovative technology expert brings to-the-point  insight regarding meaningful networking.

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Interview With Pamela of Pamela’s Punch: How To Make Your Personal Brand A Full-Time Career

Posted on March 10, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.

Pamela Lynne Sorensen, founder of the popular Washington, D.C. news and entertainment blog site Pamela’s Punch, explains how and why she founded the popular philanthropy website, her plans for the brand’s Los Angeles expansion and how to properly engage with social media. If you are even slightly interested in starting your personal online brand, this is a definite read.

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Exclusive Interview With Personal Branding Expert Dan Schawbel

Posted on January 25, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.


Dan Schawbel, recognized as a “personal branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the author of the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan, October 2010). Dan is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog®, which was the #1 job blog by CareerBuilder in 2008 & 2009, is an AdAge top 50 marketing blog, and has been visited by 2 million people since 2007. He is also the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine®, a syndicated columnist for Metro US, the youngest columnist at BusinessWeek, and has been featured in over 350 media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Details Magazine, and ELLE Magazine. He is a keynote speaker at colleges and universities, such as Harvard Business School and MIT and at major companies such as Time Warner, IBM, and CitiGroup.

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Interview With Social Media Expert Peter Corbett

Posted on January 19, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.

Peter Corbett, founder of iStrategyLabs and an expert of marketing with social media, believes that if you post interesting information through your personal media outlets, your following will grow naturally. Corbett also explains why being a connector is the most important personality trait in the era of social media. No wonder he was named one of the Most Influential Washingtonians Under 40 and one of 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers by Government Technology Magazine.

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Meet Bharet Malhotra of Cvent: Integrity And Uniqueness Creates A Successful Personal Brand

Posted on January 17, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.

Bharet Malhotra, Vice President of Sales at Cvent explains what he thinks are the most important aspects when establishing a personal brand. Malhotra attributes taking ownership of individual actions as well as creating a unique personal brand to his success. He was also named Style Settler by the Washingtonian last year.

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Nick O’Neill: Social Media Is About Individual Branding

Posted on January 5, 2011, by , under Featured Interview.

Nick O’Neill, successful entrepreneur of current ventures allfacebook.com and socialtimes.com, explains the most effective way to create your personal brand. O’Neill also tells us how businesses do not use social media to it’s full potential, and how to fix it. It is worth the read.

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Vivek Kundra Sets Up Twitter Account

Posted on December 30, 2010, by , under News.

My friend Vivek Kundra, the first ever Federal CIO took a big step today, as he has launched a Twitter account.  I learned about this from reading his status update on LinkedIn this morning.  So, I decided to follow him on Twitter as well. Thus far, he only has one post.  You can also follow him on Twitter by clicking here.

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Interview With Shashi Bellamkonda of Network Solutions

Posted on December 28, 2010, by , under Featured Interview.

As the Director of Social Media for Network Solutions, Shashi Bellamkonda explains why having a personal online presence is important as well as the do’s and don’ts when creating an online brand. Bellamkonda also recommends the book “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazzi to anyone who would like to begin the process of business and personal networking.

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5 Reasons to Use LinkedIn

Posted on December 22, 2010, by , under Uncategorized.

I recently crossed  over 2,000 contacts on LinkedIn.   When I first started on LinkedIn in 2003, I never could imagine that I would reach that many contacts.  I thought I would share how LinkedIn has helped me.

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