Today I have looked at my Klout score. For those of you who do not know, Klout is a web service that offers a measure for your online influence. It gives you a score between 0 and 100, the higher the better. For some time my score was somewhere around 60. Today it dropped suddenly…
Last week I spent a lot of time analyzing my Twitter followers and here are some of the reasons I may not follow you: 1. You are still an egg. If you didn’t bother to change the default avatar (which is an egg) why should I bother following you. You just look like every other…
Here is a short tip that I heard from Paul JR Renaud some time ago. When you attend an event you should position yourself at the door. Then see who comes in, say “Hello”, shake their hands and introduce yourself. Then say “Talk to you later” and go the the next person who comes in….
Here’s to a safe and happy holiday season for you and your loved ones. 2010 was for us a very special year: the year when PersonalBrandGrader was born and this is our first Christmas. We want to give you back something for your support during this year. Here’s the deal: we are giving away 3 personal brand…
I will be presenting on Webstock 2010, the coolest conference on Social Media. Webstock takes place in Bucharest at Radisson Blu hotel on September 16th so if you are in town drop by and get the Social Media pulse.
Most worthwhile projects or goals require a number of steps and perseverance over time to accomplish. Anything at all complicated requires preparation, know-how and perseverance through several steps over a period of time. All of that is also true about anything like choosing to optimize your LinkedIn profile. Here’s how to do just that in…
Many have succeeded at improving their search rank on LinkedIn while a good many others have failed. The differences between good results and poor results is often in the way the individual doing it approaches the challenge. Here are three tips to help you be one of the winners, as a person who succeeds. Follow…
Why might you want to start your personal branding efforts today ? There are a lot of positive things in favor of that idea, few against. The usual reason for NOT seriously considering is inertia. Scarcity of good info is sometimes the reason. Other times it’s fear of the unknown. Often it is not know…
Bad press, articles and blog posts that are not helping our brand or comments that will damage our reputation online and offline are the main concerns of every newcomer to Social Media. Have it ever happened to you or have you ever seen this happening to somebody you know? How can we tackle these situations?…
Today I’ve just stumbled upon the following situation. One of my connections in LinkedIn works at Island Holiday Rentals but when you move the mouse over the current position she appears to work for TinyURL. You can see this in the attached picture. I tried to figure out what happened and why LinkedIn decided that…