[nonmember]The economy isn’t exactly going gangbusters, but the online environment is, and that’s what #CareerGravity is all about—you, going gangbusters online, creating a loud, disruptive, impressive and effective digital footprint. Those who attended Thursday’s presentation heard Jon DiPietro and yours truly, #CareerGravity’s co-founders, discussing all that. We used the terms “online footprint” and “digital footprint” […]
Once you’ve completed your #CareerGravity design (by creating and selling your online personal brand), it’s time to gather together all of the materials you’ll need to build your #CareerGravity generator. In this post, you’ll have to decide whether you want to go with the free or paid route. If you’re apprehensive about your technical prowess […]
This aspect makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Too many people feel awkward about self-promotion. But as John D. Rockefeller said, “Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.” Your online personal branding is how you can let the world know about […]
Marketing guru David Meerman Scott recently offered some Tough love for marketing and PR job seekers. He asked, “What happens if I Google the name on your resume and the most recent company you worked for?” He answers his own question by offering, “Sadly, for many job seekers, what pops up on Google are a few […]
Yes, you’ll follow others on Twitter, they’ll follow you, and your and their tweets will display in all-inclusive streams appearing on your and their computer screens. But searching Twitter through the lens of Twitter itself and its catchall, one-stream-per-page streams, is inefficient. In fact, searching and participating at all in Twitter directly via the Twitter […]
So, what do you do? Just go out there and start playing online? That seems chaotic, a big bite to chew, perhaps even ill-advised. And it is….all those things. Before you start engaging in online maneuvers to branch out and interact in this dynamic, newfangled online environment, you need to build and terra-form your very […]
Chat it like a boss. And be boss about it. Prompt the ’70s jive talker to say, “Man, your career gravity is boss!” OK, that was silly. But participating in Twitter chats isn’t; in fact, doing so is one of the quickest ways to generate some #CareerGravity. Strive to get really good at chatting in […]
So they’ll come; that’s why. “If the mountain won’t come to you, go to the mountain,” Mohammed said, paraphrased. It’s a useful, humble approach to much in life, including your career. But balance is another useful concept in life, of which career is a part, and you want your targets coming to your mountain just […]
Creating #CareerGravity involves the following three steps: Build a website as your home base Establish social media outposts Measure and improve Blogger and best-selling author Chris Brogan has been talking about home bases and outposts for years. In an article titled “Outposts and Home Bases,” Brogan says: If you think of your main website as […]
