What do you think of when you think of LinkedIn Company Pages? Perhaps phrases like this come to mind: "no engagement from clients" "little traffic" "I'm not sure what to post" "can't even get our employees to engage!" You wouldn't…
One of my favourite sections on my LinkedIn profile is my Featured Section. This feature rolled out in February 2020, and it's created an incredible opportunity for us to showcase items for those visiting our profiles. What is LinkedIn's Featured…
There is really only one thing that can pull this winter-loving tea drinker hopping into springtime, and that is my garden! I was never one to enjoy springtime; it meant saying goodbye to my skis and snowshoes and saying hello…
Our personal brands were not meant to exist in a silo. I'm a firm believer that our personal brands are only as strong as the impact we make on others in our respective communities. One of the best ways to…
I'm a slave to my goals. It's not a healthy relationship and I'm working hard to become more "flexible" when it comes to my personal branding goals. But I'm wired in a way that if I don't set goals, in…
Nothing breaks my heart more than hearing about my students and peers' personal branding goals, dreams and ambitions, just to find out later that they've had some setbacks and they didn't meet the goals they set around developing their personal…
One of the biggest defining moments in my personal brand was when I decided to embrace my natural tendency to be an introvert, in an industry that is employed predominantly by extroverts (or so I thought). Being in the hospitality…
The hospitality industry is a great place to start to build a personal brand, but once your brand is created, then what? When you're in hospitality, you're in the "experience" business, so our industry is prime for those creative individuals…
If you're in sales or hospitality, you've seen the importance of building a personal brand, and how it can speed up the path-to-purchase for your clients and customers. You've likely seen industry colleagues and professionals take charge of their own…
The concept of building a personal brand used to be reserved for celebrities and entrepreneurs, but there's great power and potential for those working within an organization, an "intrepreneur" to develop their personal brand as well. Not only does it…