Have you ever woken up in the morning, and checked your cell phone, only to see three text messages and ten missed calls from numbers you’ve never heard of? Have you gone through the address book in your phone to see numbers stored under “don’t call”, or “mistake?” Well if you’re in college, […]

As I say, the time when you should be paying the most attention to your personal brand is in college. During college you are given the most amount of choices and the highest degree of education before you enter “the real world.” Choices, such as what major and minor you want to enlist […]

John Hennessey is the president of Stanford University, U.S. News & World Report’s #4 university in the nation and voted one of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs by Fortune Small Business. Hennessey is one academic who has an entrepreneurial legacy himself, as he transferred his important research in microprocessor technology to actual industry application […]

Everyone knows that Starbucks shutdown the other day for 3 hours to train it’s employees. Let me say this again, everyone knows that Starbucks shutdown the other day for 3 hours to train it’s employees. I don’t drink coffee. I have no use for Starbucks. And yet even though I rarely watch the news […]

There has been a ton of advice given on how to give a presentation, how to design your slides when giving a presentation, and what captures an audience’s attention. For Personal Branding, giving a presentation is like steroids for your career. When giving a presentation, you are the center of everyone’s attention. […]

Creativity, connection, inspiration. As a blogger, these are some of the most valuable commodities, regardless of your topic or niche. So it’s nice when they surface in the most unexpected of places.
Lately, I’ve been finding myself in hyper-go […]

You don’t want to forget any tax deductions. A big one that everyone remembers is charitable donations.
But how do you easily track all of those donations? You might have donated cash, stock, household items, or even driven your car to volunteer. All of these are prime tax deductions. And you don’t […]

This post was originally published at Qvisory.
As a twenty-something in the workforce, you will be questioned time after time. Here are three ways to build credibility:
1. Develop skills that travel.
Most likely, you’ll change jobs 6-8 times before your thirty. You need to develop a set of talents that will travel with you from job to […]

Slowly and surely, every social situation is developing a digital doppleganger. We can all recall the teenage awkwardness of being seen at the mall with your mom. It’s always a strange feeling when you get a Facebook friend request from someone from another generation. Many Generation Y users see social networks as a sandbox for […]

This is part of a recurring series called This Way Up, where I answer questions and give advice to readers and friends. I received a facebook wall message today from a computer science major a few years younger than me. In it, he wrote: “Back in June, I made a note about how I didn’t like working […]