The Success Rockets Blog
Information to Build The Career and Life You Want and Deserve
Today I'd like to as you to spend 3 1/3 minutes and watch this clip of Rocky talking with his son from the last Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa. This short clip has embedded in it material to talk about a wide variety of topics in personal development. I will just briefly some...
It's spring time and for many people that includes an annual house cleaning ritual. While you're in to mood to clean, how about looking over your personal brand and the way you communicate it?
Start by asking yourself what your brand is. What is the message you want others to think of when they...
When looking to advance your career and improve the impact of your personal brand look to successful companies and see what you can learn from them. Study successful brands to learn what you can extract and apply to you or your business.
When you look at the most successful corporate...
Do you have a Facebook page yet? Not your personal profile, a page.
Use a Facebook page to manage your professional life and personal brand on Facebook. On your page you can post items of interest to the people you do business with whether they are customers or staff. And...
"We can afford to lose money -- even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation -- even a shred of reputation."
~Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, as quoted by The New York Times' DealBook blog
Wow! What an incredibly compelling statement about...
LinkedIn is a powerful networking, job search, business enhancing and career development tool. Having an effective LinkedIn profile is the first and most critical step in taking advantage of this resource. One of the most power aspects of LinkedIn is that it allows you to be found by people who...
Without giving this much thought and refraining from censoring yourself, answer this question:
When someone thinks of you, what is the first thing that you would like to come to their mind?
Regardless of whether this answer was about your personality, character, work, etc....
A recurring theme I see when working with clients, reviewing resumes and interviewing job candidates is that most have an incomplete awareness of the value they have to offer an employer or a client. Usually people focus on their technical skills, meaning task they do – calculate a...
Your career success will increasingly depend on your social media presence. Employers will find you by searching social media sites, like LinkedIn and Facebook. I search LinkedIn frequently to find people qualified to work in my consulting group. Too many times I find profiles that have almost no...
In the U.S. today is President's Day, a day to remember and celebrate the President's of the United States, past and present. In honor of this holiday I want to look at what lessons we can learn and apply to our lives and careers.
With the possible exception of George Washington,...
The concepts that Seth Godindescribes in his book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable can be applied to individuals as well as more formal businesses. In fact, the very concept of personal branding is the "purple cow".
What is a purple cow? As...
Why should I bother with personal branding? For decades people have gotten along just fine with going to college, writing resumes, and going to interviews just fine without personal branding? Or have they?
The question you need to ask yourself is: Do I want an exceptional career or one that is...
