6 Ways To Destroy Your Personal Brand

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 18, 2010 Career Development

This is the 1st article of 1212 project. I hope this will enlighten you.
Building a strong personal brand means avoiding all the mistakes that can destroy your personal brand. Here are 6 mistakes that could ruin your personal brand and set you behind the competition.
1 – Pretend To Be An Expert Or Guru
To have [...]

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Brand Conversation With Maria Elena Duron

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 12, 2010 Brand Conversations

Today, I spoke to Maria Elena Duron, Maria is a chief buzz officer, speaker and coach. She is skilled in making networks “work” and harnessing the power of word of mouth. She’s a featured business coach on her affiliate CBS and ABC stations along with hosting teleseminars with Your Brand Plan and the IT Coaches. [...]

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Poll: Personal Brand Is

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 8, 2010 Polls

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Note: Only 3 choices are possible.

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What Would You Like Someone to Say About You at Your Funeral?

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 6, 2010 General

When you have passed from this life, how will you be remembered? What words will keep you in the minds of future generations?
Just in case you still don’t know what Personal Brand is or the way that Personal Branding process work. An example from different prescriptive.

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Brand Conversation with Julie Walraven

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 4, 2010 Brand Conversations

Today, I Interviewed to Julie Walraven. Julie is a career expert and certified professional resume writer. She is also a nationally published author of resumes featured in many career-focused books, such as Expert Resumes for Engineers, America’s Top Resumes, Expert Resumes for Teachers and Educators, College Grad Resumes to Land $75,000+ Jobs, and Best Resumes [...]

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The Alphabet Of Personal Branding for 2010

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 2, 2010 Personal Branding

This post inspired after challenging Malcolm Levene in an amazing Twitter conversations for the ABC … XYZ of Personal Branding for 2010.
Some of the following attributes was in my latest poll selections: What Brand Attributes are the Most Important for Remarkable Personal Brand? As we start with A, remember that Authenticity Wins in Personal Branding’s [...]

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عشر خطوات تقودك نحو وظيفة أحلامك

by Mohammed Al-Taee January 1, 2010 السيرة الذاتية

إنّ مجرد النظر إلى واقع سوق العمل في البلدان العربية يجعلك تفكر بأن الحصول على أي وظيفة قد أصبح أمنية يتطلب تحقيقها إمّا عصاً سحرية، أو أن يكون مدير الشركة قريباً لك، أو ربما راتباً بدون جهد أو حتى توصية من مسؤول حزب ما ، يهلل لكل أفعال حكومته
حصولك على الوظيفة هو إنجاز يحسب لك [...]

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Don’t Have a Testimonial Yet? Try Twitter Testimonials

by Mohammed Al-Taee December 31, 2009 Career Development

To have customers, employers or readers trust you, you need to have a unique brand, but what is a brand?
“A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another.” ~ Seth Godin
The same goes to human.
“A personal brand [...]

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Does Your Avatar Align With Your Personal Brand?

by Mohammed Al-Taee December 28, 2009 Personal Branding

If you are lucky like me to see Avatar then you will enjoy this post which I inspired from the movie.
Each one of us has his/her own avatar whether on Twitter, Facebook, Blog comments or any online presence on the web.  People can see your avatar but they could not see you personally so aligning [...]

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Brand Conversation With Adam L. Penenberg

by Mohammed Al-Taee December 23, 2009 Brand Conversations

Today, I spoke to Adam L. Penenberg. Adam is a journalism professor and assistant director of the Business and Economic Program at New York University. A contributing writer to Fast Company, he has also written for Inc., Forbes, The New York Times, Wired, Economist, and Mother Jones. His latest book, Viral Loop: From Facebook to [...]

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